Johann Friedrich Reichardt in Hamburg - between 1774 and 1776
from Letter from Johann Friedrich Reichardt to Carl Gottlied Richter , page 124:
I cannot describe to you in words the searing fire that blazes through the work...I was at times excited into a frenzy…Of the excellence with respect to the harmony I am not in a position to tell you anything; you know this great master already too well, to require an analysis of the individual beauties of this work, in order to deem him a perfect master of harmony. Only this much must I say to you: you would find there a wealth of new, grand, and sublime features and modulations that are perhaps to be encountered in no other musical work.
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Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Letter from Johann Friedrich Reichardt to Carl Gottlied Richter , volume 1 (1977), p. 124. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1395765988298 accessed: 15 October, 2024
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Die Israelisten in der Wüste
written by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach |
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Date/Time | between 1774 and 1776 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by Ivan Hewett on Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:46:28 +0000