Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Johann Friedrich Fasch!

Composer: Johann Friedrich Fasch (16881758)
Work: Magnificat anima mea Dominum (c.1724), FWV H:G1
Performers: Vokalensemble sirvеntеs berlin; Akademie für Alte Musik Bеrlin; Stеfаn Schuck (conductor)

Painting: Joseph Vivien (16571734) Allegorie auf die Wiedervereinigung Kurfürst Max Emanuels mit seiner Familie (1733)
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Johann (Johannes) Friedrich Fasch
(Buttelstädt, 15 April 1688 Zerbst, 5 December 1758)

German composer. At age 13 he entered the Leipzig Thomasschule, where he came under the tutelage of Johan Kuhnau, and later studied at the University of Leipzig and with Christoph Graupner and Gottfried Grunewald in Darmstadt (1713). He was active as a violinist and organist, then was Kapellmeister to Count Vaclav Morzin in Prague (172122) and court Kapellmeister in Zerbst (from 1722), in a post he held the rest of his life. Although none of his music was published in his lifetime, his church cantatas and festival pieces for the Zerbst court were performed in many German cities. His friend Georg Philipp Telemann gave performances of his church music in Hamburg, and Johann Sebastian Bach prepared several transcriptions of his overtures for performances with the Leipzig Collegium Musicum. Fasch's innovative orchestral writing foreshadowed the Classical style of Haydn and Mozart. Most of his vocal compositions (13 masses, 66 church cantatas, 9 church cantata cycles, 14 serenatas, and 4 operas) are lost, but his instrumental works survive in manuscript and represent an important preclassical oeuvre: 87 overtures, 18 solo concertos, 46 ensemble concertos, 18 trio sonatas, 12 sonatas a quattro and 19 symphonies. His son Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (17361800) was harpsichordist at the court of Frederick the Great in Berlin from 1756.