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This new release from CPO celebrates a composer who hardly figures at all in today’s broad cultural memory: Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar (1696-1715). His original and brilliant concertos are now being presented in complete form for the first time on cpo, complemented and contextualized by the harpsichord transcriptions of Johann Sebastian Bach based on these works.
Born as the eldest son of Johann, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Dorothea Maria of Anhalt, during his first years, Johann Ernst had a tutor and arms master, Matt of Johan. His father died on 18 July 1605, leaving the duchy under the governance of a regent. In 1608 he began his studies at the age of 14 at the University of Jena accompanied by his ...
William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. Mother. Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau. Religion. Lutheran. John Ernest II (11 September 1627, in Weimar – 15 May 1683, in Weimar), was a duke of Saxe-Weimar. He was the second but eldest surviving son of William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau .
BWV 987 — Concerto in D minor (after a concerto by Prince Johann Ernst) Variations and miscellaneous pieces, BWV 592a, 988–1000, 1006a BWV 592a — Harpsichord Concerto in G major (arr. of the Organ Concerto in G major )
Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar (German: Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar) was a German prince, son by his second marriage of Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. Despite his early death he is remembered as a collector and commissioner of music and as a composer, some of whose concertos were arranged for harpsichord or organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, who was court organist in Weimar at the time.
Weimar, 13 September 1736), Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Weimar. Ernst August II Konstantin, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. Weimar, 2 June 1737 – d. Weimar, 28 May 1758). Ernestine Auguste Sophie (b. Weimar, 4 January 1740 – d. Hildburghausen, 10 June 1786), married on 1 July 1758 to Ernst Frederick III Karl, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
