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Sebastian Bodinus
German composer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sebastian Bodinus (c. 1700 – 19 March 1759) was a German composer about whom very little is known. Bodinus was born in the village of Amt Wachsenburg-Bittstädt in Saxe-Gotha and trained as a violinist. It is known that in 1718 he entered the service of the Margrave Karl III of Baden-Durlach at the court in Karlsruhe. Bodinus worked elsewhere but always returned to Karlsruhe and was concertmaster there for two periods. He left Karlsruhe in 1752, returned in a disoriented state in 1758 and was committed to an insane asylum in Pforzheim where he died.
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His compositions include concertos and symphonies but there are predominantly chamber works in the late Baroque style, including not only solo and trio sonatas but also quartets, a considerable rarity at the time he composed them in the 1720s and 1730s. Of his quartets it has been said that this "minor master appears to have written first-rate music."[1]
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External links
- Brief biography in The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music (Oxford University Press, Inc.) via the website of Gramophone Magazine
- Information about Bodinus in review of recording of his Divertissements by MusicWeb International
- Free scores by Sebastian Bodinus at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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