Birnbaum, Johann Abraham
| Birth Name | Birnbaum, Johann Abraham [1] [2a] [3a] [4a] [5a] |
| Call Name | Johann |
| Gender | male |
| Age at Death | 46 years, 7 months, 7 days |
Events
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| Birth | 1702 |
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| Occupation | Leipzig, Sachsen, Deutschland | Johann Abraham Birnbaum was an author and Rhetorik-Dozent, a teacher of rhetoric |
Event Note
Johann Abraham Birnbaum wrote "Verfall der Buchhandlung" und erste Reformpläne.
Johann Abraham Birnbaum wrote Das Lob der Jagd : in der vertrauten Teutschen Redner-Gesellschafft in Leipzig abgehandelt. |
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| Death | August 8, 1748 |
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| Occupation | February 20, 1721 | Universität Leipzig University of Leipzig, Universität Leipzig, Sachsen, Deutschland | Johann Abraham Birnbaum was promoted to the degree of Magister, at the age of nineteen |
Event Note
on October 15 , 1721, Johann Abraham Birnbaumqualified as an instructor. |
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Narrative
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Johann Sebastian Bach was alive, a debate was launched on what Bach's spokesman and contemporary, Johann Abraham Birnbaum called the "extraordinary perfections" of his music.
The Scheibe — Birnbaum Controversy
In May, 1737, Johann Adolph Scheibe, a former student, accused Bach of an old-fashioned, unnatural and overly learned style of composition:
Alle Manieren, alle kleinen Auszierungen, and alles, was man unter der Methode zu spielen verstehet, druckt er mit eigentlichen Noten aus.
Bach was noted, according to Johann Abraham Birnbaum, for his "special adroitness, even at the greatest speed, in bringing out all the tones clearly and with uninterrupted evenness," and "the uncommon fluency with which he plays in the most difficult keys just as quickly and accurately as in the simplest."
Because performances could deceive, said Birnbaum, the ultimate judgement would be to "view the work as it has been set down in notes."
The score alone, as Bach himself believed, offered the only reliable means of truly recognizing musical perfection.
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