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Joseph Schmitt
Georg Adam Joseph Schmitt (''Georgius Adamus Josephus''; baptised on 18 March 1734 in Gernsheim, Germany, died on 28 May 1791 in Amsterdam) was a German/Dutch composer, conducting, conductor, music director, publisher, music theorist and pedagogue. He is also known as "The Dutch Haydn". Joseph Schmitt was a student of Carl Friedrich Abel, who was a student of J.S. Bach and a mentor of Mozart, and probably also had close contact with composers and performers at the court in Mannheim. In 1753, at age 19, Schmitt was admitted into the clergy. For a period of around 20 years worked as a musical priest at the Cistercian Eberbach Abbey (Kloster Eberbach) in the Rheingau, where he composed a broad range of music, from sacred to secular, chamber music, chamber to symphonic. In the early 1770s, Schmitt moved to Amsterdam, where he already had compositions published by leading European music publishing firm, the Hummel brothers. Schmitt established himself quickly in the city, becoming musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gernsheim
Gernsheim () is a town in Groß-Gerau (district), Groß-Gerau district and Darmstadt (region), Darmstadt region in Hesse, Germany, lying on the Rhine. Geography Location The ''Schöfferstadt Gernsheim'', as Gernsheim may officially call itself – it was Peter Schöffer's birthplace – lies 18 km southwest of Darmstadt and 16 km northeast of Worms, Germany, Worms, right on the Rhine's east bank, south of the Old Rhine near Stockstadt am Rhein in the Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region. Neighbouring communities Gernsheim borders in the north on the communities of Biebesheim and Riedstadt, in the east on the town of Pfungstadt and the communities of Bickenbach (Bergstraße), Bickenbach and Alsbach-Hähnlein (all in Darmstadt-Dieburg), in the south on the town of Bensheim and the communities of Einhausen, Hesse, Einhausen and Groß-Rohrheim (all in Kreis Bergstraße) and in the west on the community of Hamm am Rhein, Hamm (Alzey-Worms). Constituent communities Gernsheim consist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symphonic
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning common today: a work usually consisting of multiple distinct sections or movements, often four, with the first movement in sonata form. Symphonies are almost always scored for an orchestra consisting of a string section (violin, viola, cello, and double bass), brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments which altogether number about 30 to 100 musicians. Symphonies are notated in a musical score, which contains all the instrument parts. Orchestral musicians play from parts which contain just the notated music for their own instrument. Some symphonies also contain vocal parts (e.g., Beethoven's Ninth Symphony). Etymology and origins The word ''symphony'' is derived from the Greek word (), meaning "agreement or concord of sound", "concert of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Flaig
Markus Flaig (born 1971) is a German bass-baritone who has focused on concerts and recordings of sacred music. Career Markus Flaig was born in Horb am Neckar. He studied sacred music and school music, then voice with Beata Heuer-Christen in Freiburg and with Berthold Possemeyer at the Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt. Since 2006 he has worked with Carol Meyer-Bruetting. In 2004, he was awarded a prize at the international Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in the voice category. Flaig has collaborated on Lieder with Jörg Schweinbenz. He premiered a cycle of orchestral songs, composed for him by Franz F. Kaern, based on poems by Thomas Bernhard. He performed regularly with the Frankfurter Kantorei, conducted by Winfried Toll, in 2001 singing Handel's ''Dixit Dominus'' in the ''Sendesaal'' concert hall of the Hessischer Rundfunk, in 2006 Bach's Mass in B minor in the Heiliggeistkirche of the Dominican Monastery (Frankfurt am Main), and in 2010 Handel's ''Messiah'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Poplutz
Georg Poplutz is a German tenor, a soloist in Baroque music, opera and oratorio, and a Lied singer. He has been a member of vocal ensembles such as Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble and Cantus Cölln, and has participated in a project to record the complete works of Heinrich Schütz. Career Poplutz was born in Arnsberg. He studied pedagogy for English and Music at the Münster University and the Dortmund University. He studied voice with Berthold Possemeyer at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. After further studies with Christoph Prégardien at the Musikhochschule Köln, he graduated in 2007 with the concert exam. Poplutz made his operatic debut at the Theater Gießen in 2004, in Monteverdi's ''L'incoronazione di Poppea''. In 2005 he recorded the part of Balouard in Étienne Méhul's opera ''L'irato'', conducted by ). In the field of historically informed performance, Poplutz has collaborated as a soloist with conductors such as Marcus Creed, Helmut Müller-Brühl, Peter Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Vitzthum
Franz Vitzthum is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range, specialising in Baroque music. He was trained as a boy singer with the Regensburger Domspatzen and studied with Kai Wessel at the Musikhochschule Köln. He is a member of the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and the vocal quartet ''Stimmwerck''. References External links Official website* maierartists.de Franz Vitzthum Berlin State Opera Franz Vitzthumaeolus-music.com Franz VitzthumCarus-Verlag Carus-Verlag is a German music publisher founded in 1972 and based in Stuttgart. Carus was founded by choral conductor Günter Graulich and his wife Waltraud with an emphasis on choral repertoire. The catalogue currently includes more than 26,00 ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Vitzthum, Franz Living people German opera singers Operatic countertenors German performers of early music Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble
The Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble is a German early music group formed by the German cornetto player and conductor Arno Paduch in 1995. The group's performance and discography focuses on the rediscovery of unknown music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Discography * 2000 - Johann Rosenmüller: Deutsche Geistliche Konzerte. Christophorus CHR 77227. * 2001 - Johann Caspar Kerll: Missa in fletu solatium obsidionis Viennensis. Christophorus CHR 77249. * 2002 - ''Albrecht von Brandenburg und die Reformation''. Christophorus CHR 77254. * 2003 - Johann Pachelbel: Geistliche Festmusik. Christophorus CHR 77257. * 2005 - Sebastian Knüpfer - Thomaskantor: Geistliche Konzerte. Christophorus CHR 77276. * 2005 - Andreas Hammerschmidt: Geistliche Vokalmusik. Rondeau Production ROP 7001. * 2006 - ''Coronatio Solemnissima – Die Krönung Kaiser Leopold I. (1658)''. Works by Antonio Bertali, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer et al. Christophorus CHR 77283. * 2009 - Michael Praetorius: Michaelisvesper. Rond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missa Solemnis
{{Audio, De-Missa solemnis.ogg, Missa solemnis is Latin for Solemn Mass, and is a genre of musical settings of the Mass Ordinary, which are festively scored and render the Latin text extensively, opposed to the more modest Missa brevis. In French, the genre is "Messe solennelle". The terms came into use in the classical period. When "Missa solemnis" is used as a name, without referring to a composer, Beethoven's work is generally implied. Some of the greatest compositions in the genre have unique common names other than "Missa solemnis"—namely, Bach's ''Mass in B minor'' and Mozart's ''Great Mass in C minor''. Some works are solemn settings in proportion and scoring, but are not called a "Missa solemnis", for example several late settings of both Haydn and Schubert, and three settings by Anton Bruckner. A solemn mass has been written by well-known composers including: * Bach: ''Mass in B minor'' (1733/1749) * Beethoven: ''Missa solemnis'' in D major (1823) * Berlioz: ''Messe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rheingau Musik Festival
The (RMF) is an international summer music festival in Germany, founded in 1987. It is mostly for classical music, but includes other genres. Concerts take place at culturally important locations, such as Eberbach Abbey and Schloss Johannisberg, in the wine-growing Rheingau region between Wiesbaden and Lorch. Initiative and realisation The festival was the initiative of Michael Herrmann, who has served as its Artistic Director and chief executive officer. Like the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival founded in 1986, the Rheingau festival was intended to add life to a region rich in musical heritage. The gothic church of Kiedrich houses the oldest playable organ in Germany and has its own "dialect" of Gregorian chant that dates back to 1333. In more recent times, the Rheingau has inspired composers such as Johannes Brahms, who composed his Symphony No. 3 in Wiesbaden and frequently stayed in Rüdesheim, and Richard Wagner, who worked on in Biebrich. To test the festival id ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
The Royal Concertgebouw ( nl, Koninklijk Concertgebouw, ) is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch term "concertgebouw" translates into English as "concert building". Its superb Architectural acoustics, acoustics place it among the finest concert halls in the world, along with Boston's Symphony Hall, Boston, Symphony Hall and the Musikverein in Vienna. In celebration of the building's 125th anniversary, Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen Beatrix bestowed the royal title "Koninklijk" upon the building on 11 April 2013, as she had on the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra upon its 100th in 1988. History The architect of the building was , who was inspired by the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, built two years earlier (and destroyed in 1943). Construction began in 1883 in a pasture that was then outside the city, in Nieuwer-Amstel, a municipality that in 1964 became Amstelveen. A total of 2,186 wooden piles, twelve to thirteen metres (40 to 43 ft) long, were emplaced in the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Dutch Academy
The New Dutch Academy (NDA) is an international Dutch Baroque orchestra based in The Hague, the Netherlands. It is composed of 40 international, early music, specialist musicians, who gather in The Hague to explore 18th-century music in all of its forms, including symphonic, chamber, opera and ballet. It performs exclusively on authentic instruments. The orchestra's chief conductor and artistic director is Australian conductor Simon Murphy. In its home city of The Hague, the orchestra runs its own chamber, Baroque and symphonic concert series in partnership with venues Philipszaal, the Raad van State and the Dutch radio. The orchestra tours regularly and has appeared at many of the major European music festivals. Tours outside of Europe have taken the orchestra through North America, Russia, Asia and Australia. The orchestra records for Dutch label PENTATONE and has won major music industry awards for its CDs, including the Edison Award. Tours and performances The NDA's perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PentaTone Classics
Pentatone (stylized as PENTATONE) is an international classical music label located in Baarn, Netherlands. History Three former executives of Philips Classics, Giel Bessels, Dirk van Dijk and Job Maarse, established the label in 2001. The name comes from the words penta (five) and tone (sound), meaning five channels of sound. The label is renowned for its high-resolution multichannel surround sound recordings which are released in the Super Audio CD format. In January 2002, Pentatone recorded the official music which was performed during the wedding ceremony of the Dutch crown prince Willem-Alexander and Máxima Zorreguieta. The album, “The Music from the Royal Wedding”, sold more than 75,000 copies, thereby attaining the unique “triple platinum” status. The label has also licensed recordings made by other labels such as Philips Classics and Deutsche Grammophon. Among these are some from the 1970s which were originally recorded for 4-channel quadraphonic sound. Pentaton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Murphy (conductor)
Simon Francis Murphy (born 26 August 1973) is a Dutch-based, Australian conductor and viola player with a focus on the music of the 18th and early 19th centuries. He is originally from Balmain, Sydney, Australia. Murphy is notable for his work in rediscovering and reintroducing 18th-century European and symphonic composers, particularly from and related to the Mannheim School (Mannheimer Schule). Murphy has also popularized the previously unknown Dutch 18th-century symphonic tradition through performances on radio and TV broadcasts and the first CD recording of symphonic heritage. In particular, he has focused on 18th-century composers Joseph Schmitt "The Dutch Haydn" and Francesco Zappa, making the first CD recordings and new editions of their symphonic works. Murphy has won the Dutch Edison Award and Luxembourg's Supersonic Award. In the double role of conductor/soloist (viola), He has appeared at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Sydney Festival, the Istanbul Music Festival, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
