The selections heard in tonight's program afford
the listener a chance to hear a good representative overview of music from the
mature to the late baroque periods. Most of the composers' names, Bach, Handel,
Vivaldi, Albinoni and Muffat are well-known, and the first three names are
assuredly "household words" in the world of baroque music.
A German Baroque composer of Scottish descent, Georg Muffat (1653
– 1704) was born in Megeve, Savoy, (an independent duchy, which is now part of
France). He studied in Paris with Jean
Baptiste Lully, and then became an organist in Molsheim and Sélestat. Later, he
studied law in Ingolstadt, afterwards settling in Vienna.He could not get an official
appointment, so he traveled to Prague in 1677, then to Salzburg, where he
worked for the archbishop for some ten years.In 1681 he went to Italy and in Rome studied with Arcangelo
Corelli and Bernardo Pasquini.From
1690 he was Kapellmeister to the Bishop of Passau.
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Georg Muffat
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Passacaglia Georg Muffat
The selections heard in tonight's program afford the listener a chance to hear a good representative overview of music from the mature to the late baroque periods. Most of the composers' names, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Albinoni and Muffat are well-known, and the first three names are assuredly "household words" in the world of baroque music.A German Baroque composer of Scottish descent, Georg Muffat (1653 – 1704) was born in Megeve, Savoy, (an independent duchy, which is now part of France). He studied in Paris with Jean Baptiste Lully, and then became an organist in Molsheim and Sélestat. Later, he studied law in Ingolstadt, afterwards settling in Vienna. He could not get an official appointment, so he traveled to Prague in 1677, then to Salzburg, where he worked for the archbishop for some ten years. In 1681 he went to Italy and in Rome studied with Arcangelo Corelli and Bernardo Pasquini. From 1690 he was Kapellmeister to the Bishop of Passau.
More music by Georg Muffat
Sonata No. 2 in G minor, from Armonico Tributo
Laeta Posesis, from Florilegium Secundum
Concerto Grosso IV "Dulce Somnium"
Performances by same musician(s)
Suite from Bourgeois gentillomme
Suite from Les Indes Galantes
Harpsichord Concerto in d minor
Orchestral Suite No. 2 in b minor
Trio Sonata in d minor "La follia" Op. 1 No. 12
Cello Sonata in B-flat Major
Aria Sopra "La Bergamesca"
Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major
Concerto a cinque, Op. 2 No. 4
Sinfonia Dall' oratorio Il Giosuè
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