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Johann Georg Pisendel
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Johann Georg Pisendel (December 26, 1687 - November 25, 1755) was a German Baroque musician, violinist and composer who for many years led the Court Orchestra in Dresden, then the finest instrumental ensemble in Europe. Pisendel was born in Cadolzburg, a small town near Nuremberg, where his father Simon Pisendel was the cantor and organist. At the age of nine, Johann Georg became a choirboy at the court chapel of Ansbach. The Music Director there was the virtuoso singer Francesco Antonio Pistocchi and the Concert Master was the celebrated violinist and composer Giuseppi Torelli. It is thought that Pisendel studied the violin with Torelli. After his voice broke, Pisendel went on to play the violin in the Court Orchestra but in 1709 he left Dresden for Leipzig to further his musical studies. On the way to Leipzig, he met Johann Sebastian Bach at Weimar and, once in Leipzig, was introduced to Georg Philipp Telemann. Pisendel was an enthusiastic member of the student Collegium musicum founded by Telemann and they became close friends. In 1711, after a performance at Darmstadt, Pisendel was offered a place in the court orchestra there, but declined. The following year he accepted a place in the Dresden Court Orchestra. He remained with the Dresden orchestra for the rest of his life, though he accompanied his new master, the Crown Prince, on a tour of Europe, visiting Antonio Vivaldi (some of whose solo violin works he had already performed) in Venice. In about 1718, Pisendel b
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Sonata in C Minor, Jung III.2.B: I. Largo
7932Violin Concerto in G Minor, JunP I. 1: I. Largo e staccato
3653Sonata In D For Violin And Continuo: Allegro - Adagio - Allegro
3464Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in C Minor: III. Affetuoso
2995Sonata In E Minor For Violin And Continuo: Moderato
2906Violin Concerto in D major: II. Andante (alternate version)
2377Sonata for Solo Violin in A Minor: III. Giga
2318Sonata In E Minor For Violin And Continuo: Arioso
2139Violin Concerto in A Minor: I. Allegro
20110Imitation des Caracteres de la danse
198albums
Pisendel
Pisendel, J.G.: Orchestral Music (Dresden Concertos)
Per Monsieur Pisendel - Six Virtuoso Violin Sonatas of the Baroque
Grandissima Gravita
Pisendel: Violin Sonatas
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Pisendel: Sonata for Solo Violin in A Minor: III. Giga
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Pisendel: Violin Concerto in D Major
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Pisendel: Imitation des Caracteres de la Danse
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Violin Music - Pisendel, J.G. / Heinichen, J.D. / Hasse, J.A. (Virtuosic Violin Sonatas From the Court of Saxony)
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Pisendel: Violin Sonata in D Major
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Pisendel, J.G.: Sinfonia in B Flat Major / Telemann, G.P.: Violin Concerto, Twv 51:F4
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Violin Sonata in E Minor, JunP IV.1: II. Moderato