Background
Agricola was born on January 4, 1720 in Dobitschen, Thuringia.
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Agricola published Introduction to the Art of Singing in Germany in 1757, consisting of the 1723 treatise of the Italian singing teacher and castrato, Tosi, to which Agricola added his own running commentary. The Introduction was recognized as invaluable not only for teachers and their pupils but also for advanced singers and professionals. This present edition, translated with introduction and annotations by the celebrated singer Julianne Baird, makes Agricola's work available for the first time in English. Tosi's work was the first basic treatise on singing; Agricola, a pupil of J.S. Bach at the court of Frederick the Great, brought Tosi's work "up-to-date." His commentaries are so extensive that the Introduction stands on its own as an important document in the history of performance practice.
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This manuscript is Walter Emery's own English translation of Bach's obituary notice, written jointly by C.P.E. Bach and J.F. Agricola, originally published in Mizler's Neu Eröffnete Musikalischer Bibliothek, volume 4, part 1 in Leipzig 1754. Also included are two short biographical excerpts on Bach: J.G. Walther's Musikalisches Lexicon (1732) and the Genealogy which Bach himself compiled in c.1735.
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Agricola was born on January 4, 1720 in Dobitschen, Thuringia.
While a student of law at Leipzig he studied music under Johann Sebastian Bach.
In 1741 he went to Berlin, where he studied musical composition.
In 1741 Agricola went to Berlin, where he studied musical composition under Johann Joachim Quantz.
The success of his comic opera, Il filosofo convinto in amore, performed at Potsdam in 1750, led to an appointment as court composer to Frederick the Great. In 1759, on the death of Carl Heinrich Graun, he was appointed conductor of the royal orchestra.
Agricola died in Berlin at age 54.
(Agricola published Introduction to the Art of Singing in ...)
(This manuscript is Walter Emery's own English translation...)
He married the noted court operatic soprano Benedetta Emilia Molteni, despite the king's prohibition of court employees marrying each other. Because of this trespass, the king reduced Molteni's and Agricola's combined salaries to a single annual salary of 1, 000 Thalers (Agricola's annual salary alone had been 1, 500 Thalers).
