What is Paul Steinitz?
'''Paul Steinitz''' (born [[Chichester]], 25 August 1909; died Old Oxted, [[Surrey]], 21 April 1988) was an [[England|English]] [[Conductor (music)|conductor]] and [[pipe organ|organist]]. He was one of the first musicians in the [[20th century]] to make a careful study of the way that [[music]] by [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] should be performed so that it would sound like it used to in Bach’s day, in the early [[18th century]]. He started a choir called the [[London Bach Society]] and a group of [[instrument]]alists called the Steinitz Bach Players. He conducted them in lots of concerts. During the space of 25 years he performed all the [[cantata]]s of J.S. Bach in [[London]]. There are over 200 of them. == Life == Paul Steinitz was born in [[Chichester]], [[West Sussex]], in the south of [[England]] in 1909. His father was an [[Anglican]] clergyman. He became a student at the [[Royal Academy of Music]], studying under [[George Oldroyd]]. He was a very good [[pipe organ|organist]] and got his FRCO diploma in 1930. In the 1930s he was Director of Music at the church of St. Mary's [[Ashford, Kent]]. There he became very interested in the music of Bach while studying for his [[Doctorate]] In 1946, he started the [[London Bach Society]]. Then he became Director of Music and organist at the Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great in [[London]], which was a very old church, a lecturer at University of London and a Professor at the [[Royal Academy of Music]]. == London Bach Society == When Paul Steinitz founded the [[London Bach Society]] he wanted them to perform Bach’s music. Most musicians in those days played Bach in an exaggerated, romantic style, using large choirs and orchestras, playing with lots of [[vibrato]], and with lots of changes of speed which Bach would not have done. Steinitz wanted to show people how Bach’s works should sound. From 1950, he performed them in [[German language|German]]. When more musicians started to learn how to play [[period instrument]]s he started to use these. In 1952, he c