Georg Andreas Sorge facts for kids
Georg Andreas Sorge (born March 21, 1703, in Mellenbach, Thuringia; died April 4, 1778) was a talented German musician. He was an organist, which means he played the organ, a large musical instrument. He was also a composer, writing his own music. Most importantly, he was a music theorist, someone who studies and writes about the rules and ideas behind music.
Sorge was friends with the famous composer Johann Sebastian Bach. He even wrote three special pieces for the organ using the letters B-A-C-H as musical notes. In 1747, Sorge joined a group called Lorenz Christoph Mizler's Corresponding Society of Musical Sciences. Bach himself had joined this group just a month before Sorge.
Sorge's Musical Ideas
Georg Andreas Sorge wrote many important things about music. He was very good at explaining thorough-bass and harmony. Thorough-bass is a way of writing music where a bass line and numbers tell the player which chords to play. Harmony is about how different musical notes sound good together.
Understanding Musical Temperament
Sorge also had a deep understanding of musical temperament. This is how musical notes are tuned on an instrument, especially keyboards like the organ. Different tunings can make music sound slightly different. Sorge studied "unequal temperaments," which are ways of tuning where some keys sound better than others, creating different moods.
He even understood these tunings better than another famous theorist, J. G. Neidhardt. Sorge believed that a common tuning method called "regular 1⁄6-comma meantone temperament" was not good enough for the newer, more complex music of his time. He even said that J.S. Bach agreed with him on this! Sorge also thought that the tuning ideas of another theorist named Johann Philipp Kirnberger were "no good."
See also
- Schübler Chorales
More information about Sorge and equal temperament see: 18th Century Quotations Relating to J.S. Bach's Temperament Georg Andreas Sorge para niños
