Sentences with phrase «court organist»

At eight Beethoven played in a concert; at eleven he was made deputy court organist.

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Under ordinances forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, churches have been taken to court for refusing to hire a homosexual as church organist or as teacher in the church school, ministries to the poor have lost their funding when they refused to tolerate homosexual behavior within their programs, and a Jesuit university was required to give recognition and support to a gay rights group.

Astonishingly, he was not popular in his day, considered «old fashioned,» second best as a court composer to his friend Telemann; he was, however, a virtuoso organist and harpsichordist, which, as with piano virtuosi Mozart and Beethoven, got him jobs that he might not otherwise have had.