subject: The Particular World Of Counterpoint In Music: "the Art Of Fugue" And Also Selected Mp3s [print this page] J. S. Bach is frequently looked on as the best composers of all times.
He provided his own individual time, and each generation ever since then, along with productive power to survey together with assemble the particular key composing variations, forms, as well as nationalistic practices. Himself a fabulous Lutheran believer, he left a solid collection of sacred music to spend the very total liturgical twelve months, together with Latin Masses crafted for the particular Catholic Court of Dresden. He used very much of his employment life as a religious music overseer throughout Germany.
Even though J. S. Bach appeared to be a good solid greatly honored organ player throughout his life, he was not acknowledged as a good solid outstanding composer until the early nineteenth century. These days he is really considered by far the most powerful composer ever. Fully becoming familiar with Bach normally needs looking on the music score.
In particular, "The Art of Fugue" (BWV 1080) which really is grand and vastly pleasurable. Even so the audience will need to find out the covered design to obtain Bach's mind-blowing content. On the other hand, whenever very first drawing near to among his pieces, it is advisable to appreciate the work on a sentimental level.
Showing an individual upfront, about the layers of philosophical or conceptual content, diminishes the exhilaration of the journey. After a wide variety of extremely careful interpretations which has been distributed on records currently, I had essentially neglected exactly what a creatively fascinating musical work the particular BWV 1080 is certainly. Okonsar' CD is about the most fulfilling performances of the main "Die Kunst der Fuge" on the pipe organ I often hear Mehmet Okonsar was born in Istanbul (Turkey) and resided in Paris during his earliest education. He started studying piano in the National Conservatory of Ankara, with Nimet Karatekin and Necil Kazim Akses.
It is in the currently famous European capital city of Belgium that Mehmet Okonsar in reality acquired virtually all, he says "positively all", musical knowledge. Additionally, the actual style and guidelines of Pierre Sancan who has been the teacher of Michel Beroff, met with Okonsar in the person of one of the master's students he met while in his brief stay in the Turkish capital in the last years of the nineteen seventies. Even at his earliest public appearance in 1979, the particular eclecticism connected with his recital programs in the future could be witnessed. He offered a collection of the Preludes by Messiaen amongst others.
The piano studies of Okonsar was concluded with all the best honors any student can ever get at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. "Premier Prix avec Distinction", performing the "Dante Sonata" by Liszt and then "Diplome Superieur de Piano Avec la plus Grande Distinction, Premier Nomme", in 1986, performing the Piano Concerto Op. 42 by Arnold Schoenberg.
Continually eager for discovering more, Okonsar pursued still at the Brussels Conservatory, on Composition and Orchestration classes and again he got the top professors obtainable: Madame Jacqueline Fontyn the most important Belgian composer and occasionally he also studied with a student of Messiaen, Claude Ballif. One afternoon telephone rang and a lady calling from Switzerland inquired him. Alexis Weissenberg, a pianist Okonsar venerated and virtually worshiped, wanted him to study with in Switzerland. Funds seemed to be short though the master presented Okonsar a whole scholarship. One can witness in all performances by Okonsar how deeply Weissenberg had an effect on him.
Right after being a Belgian national, Mehmet Okonsar and his spouse Lale, artist headed back to Turkey following an invitation by the President Suleyman Demirel who provided him the most sought-after title of "State Artist of the Turkish Republic". "Doing work from Turkey isn't hopeless in our times" says the pianist. It is true that he is in particular at ease while using the computer systems and has now a really effective position on the Internet. Okonsar is very productive from Turkey where he performs, practice, create and writes. He runs a CD company and a publishing house. An initial prize at the International Young Virtuoses Competition of Antwerp in 1982, had been the start of his worldwide career. Always programming essentially the most challenging pieces, Okonsar's orchestral debut had been the Third Concerto by Rachmaninoff performed at the de Singel Concert Hall in Antwerp. Having said that his true leaping board were definitely in Utah, the 6th prize at the "Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition", 1991.
His experimental activities would not get unnoticed either, the "Academie des Arts Contemporains" of Enghien, Belgium presented him along with both Gold and Bronze medals for his acoustic and electro-acoustic compositions. He has recently been a guest judge at the National Piano Competition of Japan in the auspices of the P.T.N.A. ("Piano Teachers National Association"). Operating substantially on technical issues, as he remarks "the technology may just "totally free" the artist", his researches were displayed in a lecture at the Yamaha home office in Hamamatsu, Japan. His repertoire encompasses a variety from the early seventeenth century ("The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book") which includes composers, amongst others, Orlando Gibbons and Giles Farnaby and reaches late 20.th century with all the works by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Witold Lutoslawski.
Significant works in this particular repertoire are: J.S. Bach "The Art of Fugue" executed on organ (or piano) and harpsichord; the Goldberg Variations, the integrale of Well-tempered Keyboard. Due to the fact The Die Kunst Der Fuge is in fact produced in an open-score format, i.e. four staves, the majority of people believed it had been a didactic piece possibly not intended for public performance. That was several years ago. Several releases by fantastic musicians and artists have shown clearly the contrary. How the genuine piece is highly beautiful in its musicality as well as expressiveness. Charles Rosen (on CBS:3-69) developed a case declaring the piano to be a tremendously perfect medium to create out the interaction of parts. Given this, the performance style should be loyal to the style of Bach, naturally.
The Turkish born Belgian artist is without question a strong adept of the main "Free Music" school of thought. Virtually all his mp3s are typically shared according to the entire 3rd party musician and performer. This is certainly a real fresh new viewpoint which, according to the particular creator is going to be of large profit to equally the very artist, the release combined with the actual classical music sphere. In a similar fashion the actual leading video portal Youtube(r) provides a variety of the Belgian artist Mehmet Okonsar's piano playing video clips. Typically his Compact disk publications are all at once published as video recordings into the artist's Youtube(r) channel: mokonsar.
