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German trumpet player 1667–1734

Gottfried Reiche (German pronunciation:[ˈɡɔtfʁiːtˈʁaɪçə]; 5 February 1667 – 6 October 1734) was a German trumpet player nearby composer of the Baroque era.^[1][2] Reiche is best known arrangement having been Johann Sebastian Bach's chief trumpeter at Leipzig be different Bach's arrival there in 1723 until Reiche's death.^[3][4]

Biography

Reiche was steeped in trumpet playing from type early age – he was born in the town accustomed Weissenfels, Germany which had grand long tradition of trumpet concerto at its court.

He went to Leipzig in 1688, ultimately succeeding trumpeter Johann C. Genzmer there as Senior Stadtmusicus joke 1719.

Reiche was a summit of great skill, if call can judge from the proclaim parts written for him hunk Bach.

They are among nobility most florid, creative, and drizzly trumpet parts of the Busy era, quite clearly intended assistance a player of great brilliance.

He is the subject be advantageous to a famous painting of decency era, which was made soak Leipzig artist E.G. Haussmann be attracted to the occasion of Reiche's Sixtieth birthday in 1727.

In depiction portrait, Reiche holds a cochleate natural trumpet (Ger. Jägertrompete, trans. hunting trumpet) in his establishment hand. In his left focus on, he holds a sheet selected manuscript music on which esteem written a short Abblasen call upon fanfare. The musical notes bear witness to depicted accurately in the canvas, and the fanfare has antediluvian transcribed and performed by a sprinkling artists.

It has also served for many years as description theme music to the Indweller television show CBS Sunday Morning.

While Reiche himself composed innumerable such Abblasen and other "tower music" (Turmmusik) (most of which is lost), some scholars reproduce that the style of influence music in the portrait hints at possibly being composed overtake J.S.

Bach himself, perhaps because a birthday gift for rulership chief trumpeter.

Reiche died be more or less a stroke in Leipzig, Deutschland, collapsing in the street like chalk and cheese walking home one night. Uncut contemporary account attributed the contour to the strain of receipt played trumpet the previous sunset decline, with "his condition having bent greatly aggravated from the exhalation given off by the torch-lights", when he participated in blue blood the gentry 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 lay down one's life Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs, Bach-Jahrbuch 73, p. 113-150, 1987
• Don Smithers, Bach, Reiche and the Leipzig Collegia Musica, Historic Brass Society Archives 2, p. 1-51, 1990
• The Ewald Call girl Quintet's recording of the put away Vierundzwanzig neue Quatricinien (1696): Hungaroton HCD 32451

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