JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
July 27 – August 10, 2020
Smarano (IT), Thuringia and Leipzig (DE)
To conclude the three-year cycle on Fantasia, the Academy 2020 will focus on Johann Sebastian Bach, the musician who, more than any other, incorporated in his experience a wide range of compositional techniques, various styles and tastes, and developed the most complex contrapuntal constructions. Bach, indeed, represents the Parnasso of Fantasy. The program, as usual, includes repertory courses (organ, clavichord, harpsichord), improvisation courses, analysis of compositional techniques and keyboard technique classes. In addition, there is a lot of time available for practice: participants have at least three hours a day to practice on the academy’s instruments.
TEACHERS and COURSES
Clavichord
Joel SPEERSTRA and Ulrika DAVIDSSON: Clavichord and baroque keyboard technique; Bach: The Art of Fugue
Organ
Bill PORTER: Bach and Counterpoint
Arvid GAST: Bach and the North German tradition
Lorenzo GHIELMI: Bach and Italy
Harpsichord
Peter DIRKSEN: Bach and Italy
Enrico BAIANO: Bach Well-tempered Keyboard
Improvisation
Edoardo BELLOTTI: Italian improvisation schemes and forms exported to Germany
Pamela RUITER FEENSTRA: Bach and Improvisation: from Choral Harmonization to Choral Preludes and Partitas
Lectures
Armando CARIDEO: The Made-in-Italy exported: Italian sources in Germany