Word: churches
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...fortunes declined at Cothen after Prince Leopold married an unmusical wife. In a monumental miscalculation, Bach accepted the post of choirmaster at Leipzig's St. Thomas Church. The salary and social status were lower, the living conditions drearier, and the duties more onerous. Besides being responsible for the music in two Leipzig churches, Bach had minor chores at two others, even had to teach catechism and act as proctor to choirboys. His family obligations were increasing too. After the death of Barbara, he had married a professional singer named Anna Magdalena Wilcken in 1721; she became stepmother...
...later years, Bach gradually turned away from church composition and developed an even more austere and adventurous secular idiom, seemingly for his own satisfaction. He had always been a teacher, first to his children and then to paying pupils. He was one of the first keyboard instructors to introduce the use of the thumb and to advocate playing with curved rather than straight fingers. He told his composition students that contrapuntal lines should be like people in a conversation-each speaking grammatically, completing his sentences and remaining silent when he had nothing to add. Now, in the compositions...
Bach was the last great voice of the polyphonic style that had lasted since the early 17th century. The very forms he favored-fugue, church cantata, motet-were outmoded as he used them, and he knew it. "My art," he said, "has become old-fashioned...
Father Mazzi was for 14 years pastor of the church of Santa Maria Delle Grazie in the drab, working-class Florentine suburb of Isolotto. On the theory that conventional methods would have no impact on his parishioners, most of whom regularly vote Communist or Socialist, Mazzi shucked his cassock and collar for the jacket and high-necked sweater of the Italian workman...
...converted his rectory into an orphanage. Although Mazzi's ecclesiastical superiors were cool to his worker-priest style, they could hardly complain. Membership in his parish increased from 100 to 2,500, and in 1957 he was able to finance the construction of a new and larger church...