Baroque fabricator and keyboard virtuoso; b. Frg, 1650?; d. Rastatt, March 27, 1746?. Reliable biographical details burst in on unavailable, but it is progress that by 1695 he was music director to Margrave Ludwig of Baden. It is additionally evident, from his music, renounce he had captured the description of the late baroque Gallic instrumental style of J.
Awkward. lully and helped introduce licence into Germany. Like much fancy music, Fischer's compositions were labour published in great sets. Halfway them are Journal de Printemps (1695), charming orchestral or reposition suites following the French order; Musikalisches Blumen-Büschlein (1696), keyboard suites; Vesperae (1701), Vesper psalms tail eight voices and instrumental accompaniment; Ariadne Musica (1715), preludes current fugues in 20 keys hit with ricercars for the service seasons (this became the representation for J.
S. bach's Well-Tempered Clavier ); Litaniae Laurentiae (1711), eight litanies and four Jewess antiphons for voices and instruments; and Blumenstrauss (1732), organ preludes and fugues in as myriad church modes, together with span toccata and finale for babble group.
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