Word: bache
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...German defeat, shame and partition are visible everywhere, is finding cultural solace and renewed pride in its heroes and native sons. In 1983, on the 500th anniversary of his birth, East Germany celebrated Martin Luther. Today, in their tercentenary year, it praises George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach, the two greatest composers of the Baroque. Here, where the lives and paths of such men as Luther, Handel, Bach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Richard Wagner intersect, the glory, unity and tragedy of German history are a living memory...
Linked forever by a happy accident that saw them born within a month of each other in cities only 80 miles apart, Bach and Handel make an odd couple. Handel, whose 300th birthday was last month, was the son of a Halle barber- surgeon who wanted his boy to study law. A well-traveled cosmopolitan, he settled in London, anglicized his name from Handel, and became the dominant operatic and oratorio composer of his day. When he died, a bachelor at 74, he was buried with great ceremony in Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey. By contrast, Bach, whose birthday...
...preludes which were not in Bach's handwriting, had to be transcribed and corrected in preparation for their performance, said Melodee I. Wagen. Wolft's assistant in the Harvard Music Department...
Written sometime before 1710, the works are considered significant because they reveal much about Bach's early musical development, Wagen added...
...preludes will be performed at Harvard on April 18 as part of 4 special week long University festival commemorating Bach's 300th birthday...