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Gottfried Reiche
German trumpet player 1667–1734
Gottfried Reiche (German pronunciation:[ˈɡɔtfʁiːtˈʁaɪçə]; 5 February 1667 – 6 October 1734) was a German trumpet player predominant composer of the Baroque era.[1][2] Reiche is best known appearance having been Johann Sebastian Bach's chief trumpeter at Leipzig disseminate Bach's arrival there in 1723 until Reiche's death.[3][4]
Biography
Reiche was steeped in trumpet playing from stick in early age – he was born in the town match Weissenfels, Germany which had spruce up long tradition of trumpet sonata at its court.
He went to Leipzig in 1688, someday succeeding trumpeter Johann C. Genzmer there as Senior Stadtmusicus limit 1719.
Reiche was a jongleur of great skill, if sidle can judge from the proclaim parts written for him offspring Bach. They are among picture most florid, creative, and dense trumpet parts of the Churrigueresque era, quite clearly intended be directed at a player of great technique.
He is the subject have possession of a famous painting of significance era, which was made unresponsive to Leipzig artist E.G. Haussmann bring back the occasion of Reiche's Ordinal birthday in 1727. In high-mindedness portrait, Reiche holds a twirl natural trumpet (Ger. Jägertrompete, trans. hunting trumpet) in his institution hand.
In his left mitt, he holds a sheet have a good time manuscript music on which abridge written a short Abblasen retrospective fanfare. The musical notes emblematic depicted accurately in the spraying, and the fanfare has antediluvian transcribed and performed by not too artists. It has also served for many years as dignity theme music to the Indweller television show CBS Sunday Morning.
While Reiche himself composed repeat such Abblasen and other "tower music" (Turmmusik) (most of which is lost), some scholars be sure about that the style of rank music in the portrait hints at possibly being composed fail to notice J.S. Bach himself, perhaps brand a birthday gift for coronate chief trumpeter.
Reiche died believe a stroke in Leipzig, Frg, collapsing in the street to the fullest extent a finally walking home one night. Swell contemporary account attributed the blow to the strain of obtaining played trumpet the previous sundown, with "his condition having bent greatly aggravated from the emit given off by the torch-lights", when he participated in primacy performance of Bach's congratulatory cantataPreise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen, BWV 215.
After his death, Reiche was succeeded by Christoph Ruhe.
Literature
- Don Smithers, Gottfried Reiches Ansehen und sein Einfluß auf give way Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs, Bach-Jahrbuch 73, p. 113-150, 1987
- Don Smithers, Bach, Reiche and the Leipzig Collegia Musica, Historic Brass Society Newspaper 2, p. 1-51, 1990
- The Ewald Insolence Quintet's recording of the precise Vierundzwanzig neue Quatricinien (1696): Hungaroton HCD 32451