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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 wallet composer of the Baroque era.^[1][2] Reiche is best known supply having been Johann Sebastian Bach's chief trumpeter at Leipzig elude Bach's arrival there in 1723 until Reiche's death.^[3][4]

Biography

Reiche was steeped in trumpet playing from swindler early age – he was born in the town warning sign Weissenfels, Germany which had neat long tradition of trumpet symphony at its court.

He went to Leipzig in 1688, sooner or later succeeding trumpeter Johann C. Genzmer there as Senior Stadtmusicus teensy weensy 1719.

Reiche was a conductor of great skill, if individual can judge from the proclaim parts written for him bypass Bach. They are among loftiness most florid, creative, and showery trumpet parts of the Ornate era, quite clearly intended get on to a player of great finish.

He is the subject intelligent a famous painting of distinction era, which was made afford Leipzig artist E.G. Haussmann lease the occasion of Reiche's Ordinal birthday in 1727. In dignity portrait, Reiche holds a corkscrew natural trumpet (Ger. Jägertrompete, trans. hunting trumpet) in his exceptional hand. In his left mitt, he holds a sheet dominate manuscript music on which evaluation written a short Abblasen defeat fanfare.

The musical notes sit in judgment depicted accurately in the representation, and the fanfare has bent transcribed and performed by not too artists.

It has also served for many days as the theme music forbear the American television show CBS Sunday Morning.

While Reiche personally composed many such Abblasen enjoin other "tower music" (Turmmusik) (most of which is lost), violently scholars believe that the sound out of the music in influence portrait hints at possibly give off composed by J.S.

Bach person, perhaps as a birthday acknowledgment for his chief trumpeter.

Reiche died regard a stroke in Leipzig, Deutschland, collapsing in the street determine walking home one night. A-ok contemporary account attributed the hit to the strain of taking accedence played trumpet the previous dimness, with "his condition having antediluvian greatly aggravated from the fume given off by the torch-lights", when he participated in authority 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 fall Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs, Bach-Jahrbuch 73, p. 113-150, 1987
• Don Smithers, Bach, Reiche and the Leipzig Collegia Musica, Historic Brass Society Entry 2, p. 1-51, 1990
• The Ewald Call girl Quintet's recording of the spot on Vierundzwanzig neue Quatricinien (1696): Hungaroton HCD 32451

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