Johann Kuhnau
Johann Kuhnau (German: [ˈkuːnaʊ]; 6 April 1660 – 5 June 1722) was a German polymath, known primarily as a composer today. He was also active as a novelist, translator, lawyer, and music theorist, and was able to combine these activities with his duties in his official post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, which he occupied for 21 years. Much of his music, including operas, masses, and other large-scale vocal works, is lost. His reputation today rests on his Biblical Sonatas, a set of programmatic keyboard sonatas published in 1700, in which each sonata depicted in detail a particular story from the Bible. After his death, Kuhnau was succeeded as Thomaskantor by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Genre: choral
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Top Tracks
- Piano Improvisation 1 (After Prelude from Neue Clavier-Übung I, Partie V)
- Christ lag in Todesbanden: IVd. Rittornello
- Christ lag in Todesbanden: IVb. Rittornello
- Neue Clavier-Übung I, Partie V in G Major: Prelude
- Christ lag in Todesbanden: IVf. Rittornello
- Neue Clavier-Übung I, Partie V in G Major: Gigue
- Laudate pueri Dominum: No. 4, Excelsus super omnes gentes Dominus
- Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern: III. Uns ist ein Kind geboren
- Christ lag in Todesbanden: II. Choral "Christ lag in Todesbanden"
- Christ lag in Todesbanden: I. Sonata
- Uns ist ein Kind geboren: I. Sonata
- Christ lag in Todesbanden: IVc. Aria "Er ist das rechte Osterlamb"
- Christ lag in Todesbanden: IVa. Aria "Wir leben nun mit Jesu Christ"
- Christ lag in Todesbanden: III. Coro "Alleluja es ist Victoria"
- Piano Improvisation 2 (After Prelude from Neue Clavier-Übung I, Partie V)
- Der Gerechte Kommt Um (Motet)
- Christ lag in Todesbanden: V. Coro "So feÿren wir das hohe Fest"
- Christ lag in Todesbanden: IVe. Aria "Den hat schon Christus vor der Welt"
- Uns ist ein Kind geboren: VIII. Alleluja, alleluja
- Tristis est anima mea
Albums (45)
- Frohlocket, ihr Völker, und jauchzet, ihr Heiden (Cantata for Christmas Day): Chor: O Freuden Wort, mein Freund ist mein (2024-11-08)
- Uns ist ein Kind geboren (Christmas Cantata): I. Sonata (2024-11-01)
- Idyll. Heritage Piano Music of Beethoven & Schumann (2024-08-22)
- J. S. Bach: A Life in Music (Vol. 1). Arnstadt & Mühlhausen (1703-1708), Early Cantatas (2024-04-05)
- Le Rouet. Piano Essentials from the Golden Age (2024-04-03)
- Baroque Colours (2023-11-03)
- Johann Kuhnau: Biblische Historien in 6 Sonaten, Vol. 2 (2023-09-17)
- Johann Kuhnau: Biblische Historien in 6 Sonaten, Vol. 1 (2023-05-31)
- Complete Sacred Works Vol. 8 (2023-03-20)
- Bach, Caldara & Kuhnau: Magnificat (2022-06-03)
- Kuhnau: Biblical Sonatas (2022-05-27)
- Kuhnau: Complete Sacred Works, Vol. 7 (2022-05-06)
- Kuhnau: Complete Sacred Works, Vol. 6 (2021-10-15)
- Johann Kuhnau (Piano Collection) (2021-04-16)
- Kuhnau: Complete Sacred Works, Vol. 5 (2020-08-07)
- Il Tremore Degl'israliti (2020-02-29)
- Magnificat - Christmas in Leipzig (2019-11-15)
- III. Quia respexit humilitatem (2019-10-25)
- Kuhnau: Complete Sacred Works, Vol. 4 (2019-01-04)
- J.S. Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 1 (2018-07-13)
- Kuhnau: Complete Sacred Works, Vol. 3 (2018-03-23)
- Les maîtres du Baroque (2017-11-10)
- Complete Sacred Works, Vol. 2 (2017-02-24)
- Kuhnau: Complete Organ Music (2015-06-05)
- Kuhnau: Complete Sacred Works, Vol. 1 (2015-01-06)
- Kuhnau: Biblischer Historien Nos. 1, 2, 3, 6 (2014-11-01)
- Kuhnau: Biblischer Historien Nos. 1, 2, 3, 6 (2014-11-01)
- O crux. Chormusik zur Passions- und Osterzeit aus fünf Jahrhunderten. Five centuries of choral music for Holy Week and Eastertide (1970-01-01)
- Kuhnau: Harpsichord Sonatas (2013-08-27)
- Thomaskantoren vor Johann Sebastian Bach (2012-09-01)
- Geistliche Musik für ein ganzes Jahr (2012-03-09)
- Johann Kuhnau: Biblische Sonaten (Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien) (2012-02-07)
- Kuhnau & Albrici: Sopran Cantatas (2011-01-04)
- Enlightenment A Cappella (2009-11-01)
- Organ Recital: Schmeding, Martin - Kuhnau, J. / Bach, J.S. / Homilius, G.A. / Walther, J.G. / Krebs, J.L. / Rinck, J.H.C. / Mendelssohn, Felix (2006-01-01)
- Kuhnau: Neuer Clavier-Ubung, Vol. 1 (2000-01-01)
- Kuhnau: Sonates bibliques (1970-01-01)
- Deutsche Kantaten (1970-01-01)
- Kuhnau / Zelenka / Bach: Magnificat (1999-12-31)
- Johann Kuhnau: Sacred Music (1998-09-01)
- Virtuoso Organ Collection (1995-11-03)
- Kuhnau: Keyboard Works (1970-01-01)
- Kuhnau: Biblical Sonatas Nos. 2, 4 & 6 (Mono Version) (1970-01-01)
- Kuhnau: Biblical Sonatas Nos. 1, 3 & 5 (Mono Version) (1970-01-01)
- Deutsche Barockmusik: Serie B. Klavier, Orgel und Laute (Mono Version) (1957-01-01)
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