Salutation : Poeticall Musicke

Poeticall Musicke : Salutation.
Late renaissance and early baroque music, historically performed.

Together, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber von Bibern (1644 - 1704) and Johann Jakob Walther (1650 - 1717) are possibly the most significant composer-violinists of the late 17th century. Both wrote music for a virtuoso technique including the extensive use of doublestops and arpeggios, their works also display a wealth of formal compositional devices.

All the known facts of Walther's life and activity are from the Musikalischen Lexikon (a dictionary from 1732) by Johann Gottfried Walther (Johann Sebastian Bach's cousin). J.J. Walther was born in Witterda bei Erfurt. Between 1670 and 1674 he is said to have been employed as a violinist in the orchestra of Cosimo III of the Medicis in Florence. From 1674 he was concertmaster at the court of Dresden. After the death of his patron, John George II, in 1680 he became the Italian secretary at the elector's court in Mainz, where he would remain until his death.

Biber was born in the small Bohemian town of Wartenberg, Biber worked at Graz before he illegally left his Kremsier employer (Prince-Bishop Carl- Liechtenstein-Castelcorno) and settled in Salzburg. He remained there for the rest of his life, publishing much of his music but apparently seldom, if ever, giving concert tours.

Dieterich Buxtehude (1637/39 - 1707) was a Danish-German organist and composer. His organ works represent a central part of the standard modern organ repertoire. He composed in a wide variety of vocal and instrumental idioms; his style strongly influenced many composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach. Buxtehude's last post, from 1668, was at the Marienkirche, Lübeck which had two organs, a large one for big services and a small one for devotionals and funerals. There he succeeded Franz Tunder and (following in the footsteps of his predecessor) married Tunder's daughter Anna Margarethe in 1668 - it was a common practice! Buxtehude and Anna Margarethe had seven daughters who were all baptized at the Marienkirche.

Songs:

1. Hortulus Chelicus IV (Johann Jacob Walther)
2. The Annunciation (Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber von Bibern)
3. Suite in F (Dietrich Buxtehude)
4. Sonata I in F (vn vl bc) (Dietrich Buxtehude)
5. Sonata IV in Bb (vn vl bc) (Dietrich Buxtehude)
6. Suite in G (Dietrich Buxtehude)
7. Sonata in G (2 vn vl bc) (Dietrich Buxtehude)

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Release date: 04/05/2016
Poeticall Musicke lives in York England

Tagged as: Classical, Baroque, Chamber Music, Instrumental, Composer: Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer: Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber von Bibern, Harpsichord, Recorder, Viola da Gamba

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