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Journal Article
Bach's Sopranos
2004
Overview
Bach doubtless encountered adult singers singing in falsetto voice as early as his stay in Lübeck, Germany. During his first years in Cöthen, Bach worked mainly with imported singers and, in the early summer of 1722, a woman, Anna Magdalena Wilcke, who later became his wife. In Leipzig, Bach's Cöthen experience with women's and castrato voices was useless. He had only the choice of boys or adult discantists. A conservative faction of the Leipzig city council was opposed to \"theatrical\" church music and \"operatic\" falsetto singing. Another faction wanted to have modern church music with the appropriate interpreters. Bach seems to have tended variously toward one or the other direction without in the end really satisfying either side.
Publisher
American Choral Foundation Inc
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