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Faculty of Law, Business & Arts
Charles Darwin University
Darwin NT 0909
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Seminar Series

Wednesday 10th February 2010

Assoc Prof Martin Jarvis

"Who wrote BWV1127?"

Abstract

In 2005 a box was discovered and removed from a library in Weimar, Germany, just shortly before the library burned down.  In the box, which had not been opened since 1713, were a number of items, including an unsigned music manuscript.  This manuscript was then attributed, by Bach-scholar Michael Maul, to Johann Sebastian Bach.  This paper examines whether or not Michael Maul was correct.

Biosketch

Welsh born, Martin Jarvis began his music studies as a violinist.  At the age of 14, he won a scholarship to study violin at the Welsh College of Music, in Cardiff, and, in 1971, he won a place both at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College Music - choosing the former as his place of study of both the violin and the viola.  After leaving the RAM he free-lanced with the London Mozart Players before taking up a place with the Halle Orchestra at Manchester.  he moved to Australia in 1977 to a position in the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.  In 1979 Martin became Artistic Director of the Derwent Symphony Orchestra, and in 1981 he bacame Artistic Director of the Tasmanian Chamber Orchestra and the New Johann Strauss Orchestra.  In 1983 he became Principal Conductor of the Tasmanian Youth Orchestra, he then returned to the UK to expand his conducting career and his experience in music education.  Martin has conducted a number of British Orchestras, including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Martin returned to Australia in 1987, taking up a position at the Northern Territory University at Darwin (now Charles Darwin University).

since his arrival at Darwin, Martin has received a number of awards recognising his contribution to the cultural life of Australia and in particular the Northern Territory.  Among the awards received are, Australian Council for Education Leadership (ACEL) Service to Education Award for services to education and music in 2009, an OAM in 2007, for his work with the Darwin Symphony Orchestra, a Centenary Medal in 2003 for services to Australian Society, the inaugural 'The Orchestras of Australia Network Award'2000, for his contribution to the development of orchestral music in Regional Australia, 'Northern Territorian of the Year 1999', for his contribution to the Arts in the Northern Territory and he was Darwin Citizen of the Year 1989.

Martin holds a PhD, is a Fellow of the Institute of Music Teachers, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Martin is widely published, with his most recent research publications taking a fresh look at the professional relationship between Johan Sebastian Bach and Anna Magdalena Bach, his second wife, with some startling discoveries!