Previous posts for February 11th are here: Jerome Lowenthal (2020), Otis Clay (2021), Johann Jacob Bach (2022), Sérgio Mendes (2023), and George Winston (2024)
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Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns [or Brauns] (11 February 1637 – 13 March 1718) was a German composer and music director in Hamburg.
Author! Author!
Both [Bruhns’s] Johannes-Passion (1702) and Markus-Passion (1705) were for a long time attributed to Reinhard Keiser. The Markus-Passion is also attributed to Gottfried Keiser, Reinhard's father. Bach performed the Markus-Passion in Weimar and in Leipzig. The earliest attribution to Keiser can be found in Bach's copy. – adapted from Wikipedia
The work can also be considered as an anonymous composition. – Wikipedia, s.v. “St Mark Passion (attributed to Keiser)“
Did it leave the Bruhns family ashen
When folks did their patriarch’s Passion,
And were rather too eager
To ascribe it to Krieger
In a careless and cavalier fashion?
If the Bruhns, as a family, had
Any proof that would prove ironclad
That it wasn’t by Keiser,
Then it might have been wiser
To speak then and there for the Dad.
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Giovanni Pacini (11 February 1796 – 6 December 1867) was an Italian opera composer.
B-Team
Pacini himself was the first to recognize his apparent defeat and noted in memoirs: "I began to realize that I must withdraw from the field. Bellini, the divine Bellini, has surpassed me." – Wikipedia
Pacini was once a contender
In the annals of opera’s splendor,
But he couldn’t compete
And admitted defeat
In a graciously tendered surrender.
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