After Wendy Carlos And Tomita, Okonsar Offers "musical Offering" On Electronic Instruments

The "Kappelmeister" is certainly regarded by many to be the greatest composer that ever lived.

He is bound to have had an enormous influence on the western musical canon; most of the actual later composers that most of us regard essential: i.e. Beethoven,Liszt, Chopin, but even Schoenberg too, have shown admiration for in addition to throughout a few sense, sought to replicate him.

His musical creations are consistently played in churches along with concert halls all over the world, as well as there happen to be millions of cd's of his music.

In the last ten years of his life J. S. Bach started out composing intricate canonic in addition to fugal explorations of single subjects, including sets of canons about the chorale tune "Von Himmel hoch" and also to the original eight notes of the actual bass-line of his Goldberg Variations theme, along with most of the Musical Offering, gathered for King Frederick II of Prussia throughout 1747.

The six Brandenburg Concertos (BWV 1046-51), between several other secular works, date through his Cothen years. Bach started to be "Kantor" of the particular Thomas School inside Leipzig throughout May 1723 and held the particular post right until his passing away.

It has been inside Leipzig that he created the bulk of his religious and secular cantatas.

The Musical Offering ("Musikalisches Opfer" or "Das Musikalische Opfer"), BWV 1079, is without question a group of canons as well as fugues and other pieces of music by the Johann Sebastian Bach, each of based using a sole musical theme provided for him by Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the Great), to whom they are dedicated.

Musical Offering seems to have its origins within a meeting in between Bach in addition to Frederick II on May 7, 1747. The get together, occurring at the King's asset in Potsdam, came about mainly because Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel was basically hired there as court music performer.

Johann Sebastian Bach's The Musical Offering, BWV 1079, comprises of 16 movements as well as is a bit lengthier than 50 minutes throughout duration, presented by a struggle to develop a theme played for the purpose of the composer according to Frederick the Great.

The particular meeting occurred on May seven, 1747, and Bach's son, Carl Philipp Emmanuel, who many times accompanied Frederick in performances of chamber music, arranged for the purpose of the two men to meet. By way of, J.S. Bach, "the old Bach of Leipzig," was viewed as an author associated with old-fashioned music, although his improvising expertise had been yet renowned.

Frederick, the King of Prussia, did certainly not approve of extremely difficult music, plainly choosing the trendy "galant" style towards confusing fugues associated with high Baroque music.

In an apparent endeavor to confound the old master, the actual monarch made available an awkward chromatic subject for the purpose of the elderly composer to improvise upon, and also has been surprised by Bach's handling with this "Royal Theme."

Afterward, the improviser was adamant the fact that he currently had not necessarily done the particular theme justice, as well as the fact that he might try to do so. Later that year, The Musical Offering came up throughout print, dedicated to Frederick the Great, and also printed at the composer's own expense.

It shows the total collection of the Baroque composer of fugues and does it with extra fluency compared to other composer of the time could have been ready to deliver.

Certainly, it takes into consideration the monarch's passion for flute playing and even gives a prominent part for the particular instrument.

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

Mehmet Okonsar was born in Istanbul (Turkey) and lived in Paris in the course of his earliest schooling. He started studying piano at the National Conservatory of Ankara, with Nimet Karatekin and Necil Kazim Akses.

It is in the today renowned European capital city of Belgium that Mehmet Okonsar essentially received just about all, he says "totally all", musical knowledge.

Throughout this era connected with turmoil who was the 70s in Turkey, Okonsar linked on both friendly and professional basis with a pianist and conductor, ex-student of Pierre Sancan. From this friendly relationship he mastered the fundamentals of the keyboard guidelines of Pierre Sancan who was the teacher of pianists like Michel Beroff and the student of Yves Nat.

Even at his initial public appearance in 1979, the specific eclecticism connected with his recital programs to come can be observed. He presented a collection of the Preludes by Messiaen amongst others.

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

Always in need of understanding more, Okonsar went after that still at the Brussels Conservatory, on Composition and Orchestration classes and all over again he got the very best educators available: Madame Jacqueline Fontyn the primarily Belgian composer and also occasionally he likewise studied with a student of Messiaen, Claude Ballif.

"Working through Turkey isn't impossible within our times" affirms the pianist.

It is true that he's especially comfortable while using the computer systems and has now an incredibly formidable profile on the Internet.

Okonsar is extremely effective from Turkey where he performs, exercise, create and writes. He operates a CD company and a publishing house.

Mehmet Okonsar's international career commenced with the first prize at the International Young Virtuoses Competition of Antwerp in 1982. His orchestral debut was the 3rd Concerto by Rachmaninoff executed at the "de Singel" Concert Hall in Antwerp, Belgium. His additional prizes are: Paris, 1989, "J. S. Bach" at the Salle Gaveau: second prize; 1990, Rome, Association Chopin "Premio Etruria": 1st prize; and 1991, United States, Utah, the sixth prize at the "Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition".

His researches on music and also technology were exposed in a lecture at the Yamaha head office in Hamamatsu, Japan.

Okonsar has performed recitals presenting the entire piano works by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Despite he denies many type of "musical specialization", his repertoire is intensely on the "modern" side with Igor Stravinsky "Three Movements of Petrouchka" the "Sequenza" for the piano by Luciano Berio and the Klavierstucke by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Virtually all the very sides that belong to the big musical work by J. S. Bach is undoubtedly delivered along with finest understanding and quality in the option of "sounds" and even "instruments" utilized. A whole lot more "human" as compared with Wendy Carlos, a lot less "passionate" than Tomita the end result is without a doubt seriously engaging.

Two special innovative alternatives considered by The pianist and composer Okonsar well worth figuring. Very first he chose to implement sampled traditional instruments (i.e. viols "da gamba") for the particular Sonate in Trio. The overall sound produced by those viols and the block flute is actually remarkable. Second he deliberately opted to make the "endless" canon an absolute endless component by not necessarily ending the particular music but alternatively fading out its conclusion.

Most of the other current main tracks associated with the work usually looked inappropriate to me. Generally the orchestrations tend to be "too colossal" commonly pompous. Very likely Okonsar made the most effective contemporary choice concerning the instrumentation (which is definitely not given inside the actual musical score). The Belgian musician once reported that if perhaps Bach were living in these days he would have used electronic instruments since he is bound to have been often curious along with the fresh sound resources associated with his point in time.

Mehmet Okonsar is certainly a good adept of the particular "Free Music" viewpoint. Each of his releases are usually shared by way of the entire free artist. This is an important cool way of thinking that, according to the composer is going to be of enormous returns to equally the particular artist, the entire launch together with the classical music world.

Likewise the entire ultimate digital video site Youtube(r) shows a wide range of the pianist and composer Okonsar's performance online videos. Many times his CD productions are simultaneously uploaded as video clips into the artist's Youtube(r) channel: mokonsar.