A Brand New Latest Release: The Musical Offering By Bach On Electronic Instruments By Mehmet Okonsar

Bach is regarded by many to be the greatest composer that ever lived.

He is bound to have had a massive influence on the western musical canon; the vast majority of of the main later composers the fact that most of us consider significant: i.e. Beethoven,Liszt, Chopin, but even Schoenberg too, have admired along with within a bit of sense, attempted to emulate him.

His musical creations are constantly performed in churches along with concert halls virtually all over the world, in addition to there are millions of mp3s of his music.

In the very last ten years of his life J. S. Bach started out creating elaborate canonic together with fugal research of single subjects, together with sets of canons about the chorale melody "Von Himmel hoch" combined with to the first eight notes of the actual bass-line of his Goldberg Variations theme, along with the entire Musical Offering, compiled for the purpose of King Frederick II of Prussia within 1747.

Bach's use of counterpoint was fantastic in addition to revolutionary, and the large intricacies associated with his compositional style which oftentimes integrated faith based and numerological icons that seem to fit flawlessly together throughout a profound puzzle of individual codes, still impress performers these days. Several consider him the greatest composer of virtually all time.

It appeared to be inside Leipzig the fact that he created the majority of his non secular in addition to secular cantatas.

There is no sharp historical hint regarding the order where the portions of the Musical Offering by Johann Sebastian Bach need to be played out nor with what order. Bach sent the work, etched at his own cost, to Frederick the Great in 3 installments, without having any performance or instrumentation information, absolutely no program order, along with the canons have been just one-liners which the players would need to experience. Therefore it is up to the actual producer and also artists to decide on a program order, in addition to instrumentation.

Musical Offering is bound to have its roots within a gathering in between Bach in addition to Frederick II on May 7, 1747. The particular meeting, taking place at the King's asset within Potsdam, took place because Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel was basically employed there as court music performer.

Frederick thought to display J.S. Bach a uniqueness, the particular piano, one of the firsts ever made, which in turn were being manufactured a handful of years earlier. The King bought several of the experimental instruments getting developed by way of Gottfried Silbermann.

During his expected visit to Frederick's palace inside Potsdam, Bach, who was well recognized for his particular skill at improvising, obtained from Frederick a long and also intricate musical theme on which to improvise a three-voice fugue. He succeeded, nevertheless Frederick after that questioned him to improvise a six-voice fugue on the same theme.

The general public present considered that merely a malevolent caprice by the King, who was intent in embarrassing philosophers and also music performers.

Bach replied the fact that he might really need to great music composition the score as well as send it to the King afterwards. He then returned to Leipzig to write the "Thema Regium" (i.e. theme of the king).

Two months after the meeting, Bach released a set of pieces based upon this theme that all of us now recognize as "The Musical Offering" BWV 1079.

Bach engraved the piece "Regis Iussu Cantio Et Reliqua Canonica Arte Resoluta" (the theme offered according to the king, together with innovations, resolved in the particular canonic style), the very first letters of which in turn disclose the saying "Ricercar", a well-known genre of that time period.

The particular "Thema Regium" appears as the theme for the purpose of the 1st and last movements of the 7th Sonata in D Minor through Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, composed inside 1788, and also also as the theme for the purpose of sophisticated variations by way of Giovanni Paisiello within his "Les Adieux de la Grande Duchesse des Russies," written within 1784, over his departure from the court of Catherine the Great.

Mehmet Okonsar released an entire version of the BWV 1079 realized on electronic instruments.

The piano studies of Okonsar terminated with the maximum honors any student could ever get at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. "Premier Prix avec Distinction", performing the "Dante Sonata" by Liszt then "Diplome Superieur de Piano Avec la plus Grande Distinction, Premier Nomme", in 1986, performing the Piano Concerto Op. 42 by Arnold Schoenberg.

At the conclusion of his piano studies, Okonsar got the particular advantage of working with one of the best composers of Belgium: Madame Jacqueline Fontyn. He additionally studied with a pupil of Messiaen, Claude Ballif. In 1989 he obtains his diplomas in Composition-Orchestration from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Brussels.

Okonsar performs today through Turkey on a tight agenda concertizing, composing, writing and teaching. He owns and handles a CD label exclusive to his own recordings, LMO-Records, plus a publishing company "inventor-musicae."

An initial prize at the International Young Virtuoses Competition of Antwerp in 1982, has been the beginning of his intercontinental career.

Nonetheless his genuine jumping board were definitely in Utah, the 6th prize at the "Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition", 1991.

The "Academie des Arts Contemporains" of Enghien, Belgium honored him in 1991, for his acoustic and electronic compositions with the Gold and Bronze medals respectively.

Functioning substantially on technical things, as he says "the technology may just "totally free" the artist", his researches have been introduced in a lecture at the Yamaha headquarters in Hamamatsu, Japan.

His repertoire encompasses a variety from the early 17.th century ("The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book") for example composers, among others, Orlando Gibbons and Giles Farnaby and also reaches late the twentieth century with the works by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Witold Lutoslawski.

Remarkable works within this repertoire are: J.S. Bach "The Art of Fugue" performed on organ (or piano) and also harpsichord; the Goldberg Variations, the integrale of Well-tempered Keyboard.

Virtually all the actual aspects of the mind boggling musical work by J. S. Bach happens to be performed together with wonderful resolution as well as taste within the choice of "sounds" and also "instruments" employed. Way more "human" when compared to Wendy Carlos, a lot less "romantic" than Tomita the outcome is in fact certainly appealing.

Two particular imaginative choices grabbed from The multi-faceted music artist Okonsar worth figuring. Very first he proceeded to apply sampled traditional instruments (i.e. viols "da gamba") for the particular Sonate in Trio. The overall sound generated through those viols in addition to the block flute is actually astounding. Subsequently he by choice opted to grant the "endless" canon an actual endless aspect by not really stopping the actual music but instead fading out its ending.

The Turkish born Belgian artist is undoubtedly a particular adept of the very "Free Music" school of thought. Every bit of his CD's are shared by the the actual third party creator. This is definitely a contemporary viewpoint that, according to the artist will be of huge returns to equally the artist, the very launch in addition to the main classical music domain.

Furthermore the particular number one digital video site Youtube(r) possesses a wide variety of the Belgian artist Mehmet Okonsar's performance videos. Ordinarily his Compact disc productions are all at once uploaded as video recordings into the artist's Youtube(r) channel: mokonsar.