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Kündlich Groß Ist Das Gottselige Geheimnis (Stölzel)
''Kündlich groß ist das gottselige Geheimnis'' ("Great indeed is the Godly mystery") is a Christmas cantata by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, intended for the third day of Christmas, and set for soloists, choir, oboe, strings and continuo. History Stölzel composed the cantata as part of his cycles of church cantatas for the court of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. He composed two works beginning with a verse from the First Epistle to Timothy, "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh" (). It was intended for the Third Day of Christmas in 1736. For the third day, he used a modest ensemble of strings and oboe, and composed no recitatives. Structure and music The cantata is structured in five movements, an opening choral movement, a soprano arias, a chorale, an alto aria and another chorale. # Kündlich groß ist das gottselige Geheimnis # Geheimnisvolle Worte # Der Sohn des Vaters, Gott von Art # Dies Geheimnis führt und treibt un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christmas Cantata
A Christmas cantata or Nativity cantata is a cantata, music for voice or voices in several movements, for Christmas. The importance of the feast inspired many composers to write cantatas for the occasion, some designed to be performed in church services, others for concert or secular celebration. The Christmas story, telling of music of the angels and suggesting music of the shepherds and cradle song, invited musical treatment. The term is called in German, and in French. Christmas cantatas have been written on texts in several other languages, such as Czech, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish. Christmas cantata can also mean the performance of the music. Many choirs have a tradition of an annual Christmas cantata. Theme Different from Christmas oratorios, which present the Christmas story, Christmas cantatas deal with aspects of it. Bach's ''Christmas Oratorio'', written for performance in Leipzig in 1734/1735 touches many of these themes. It consists of six parts, each part is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polyphony
Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice, monophony, or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords, homophony. Within the context of the Western musical tradition, the term ''polyphony'' is usually used to refer to music of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Baroque forms such as fugue, which might be called polyphonic, are usually described instead as contrapuntal. Also, as opposed to the ''species'' terminology of counterpoint, polyphony was generally either "pitch-against-pitch" / "point-against-point" or "sustained-pitch" in one part with melismas of varying lengths in another. In all cases the conception was probably what Margaret Bent (1999) calls "dyadic counterpoint", with each part being written generally against one other part, with all parts modified if needed in the end. This point-against-point conception is opposed to " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kölner Akademie
Die Kölner Akademie - ''Damals und Heute'' are a German baroque and classical music orchestra founded in 1996 and based in Cologne. They are led by the American conductor Michael Alexander Willens who studied at the Juilliard School in New York.Fanfare Joel Flegler 2009 Volume 32 No. 6 - Page 36 "Willens lives in Cologne, and his period-instrument orchestra, Die Kolner Akademie Damals und Heute, had been hired to perform at van Ommeren's retirement party. ...Founded in 1996 and based in Cologne, it is made up of young musicians who represent the next generation of period-instrument performance" Selected discography For Raumklang: * Johann Valentin Meder: ''St. Matthew Passion'', Kennedy, Merkel, Türk, Hilz, Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens, Raumklang For Carus Records * Johann Sebastian Bach: ''St Mark Passion, BWV 247, St Mark Passion'', Dominique Horwitz (speaker), ensemble amarcord, Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens, Carus 2009 For BIS Classics: * Mozart: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Heinrich Rolle
Johann Heinrich Rolle (23 December 1716 – 29 December 1785) was a German Baroque music, baroque composer. Rolle was born in Quedlinburg. His father was a musician in Magdeburg, and in his early years Rolle served there as an organist while studying law. In 1741 he became a chamber musician in the court of the Prussian King Frederick the Great, Frederick II, before returning to Magdeburg in 1746 to take up the position of organist at St John's Church. Rolle's father died in 1751, and Rolle succeeded him as music director at the Altstädtisches Gymnasium, a secondary school. He died in Magdeburg, aged 69. Rolle is remembered mainly for his Christmas Oratorio.Ralph-Jürgen Reipsch, Johann Heinrich Rolles ‚Musikalische Dramen‘ - Notizen zu Grundlagen und Erscheinungsbild einer musikalischen aGttung, in the ''Händel-Jahrbuch'' published by the 47 (2001), Selected recordings * ''Der Tod Abels'' Das Kleine Konzert dir. Hermann Max Capriccio * ''Matthäuspassion'' Kölner Akade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gottfried August Homilius
Gottfried August Homilius (2 February 1714 – 2 June 1785) was a German composer, cantor and organist.Dennis Shrock ''Choral Repertoire'' 2009 -- Page 303 "1714–1785 Homilius was born near Dresden, where he was educated and where he served as substitute organist at the ..." He is considered one of the most important church composers of the generation following Bach's, and was the main representative of the '' empfindsamer'' style. Life Homilius was born in Rosenthal, Saxony, the son of a Lutheran pastor, and was educated at the Annenschule in Dresden. He then studied law at Leipzig University and the organ under Johann Sebastian Bach. From 1742 he was organist at the Dresden Frauenkirche, and from 1755 until his death cantor at the Kreuzkirche in Dresden with the associated responsibility of music director at the Kreuzkirche, the Sophienkirche, and the Frauenkirche. After the destruction of the Kreuzkirche during the Seven Years' War he worked mainly at the Frauenkir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Förster
Christoph Förster (30 November 1693 – 6 December 1745) was a German composer of the baroque period. Life Christoph Förster (spelled Johann Christoph Friedrich in his death register) was born in Bibra, Thuringia as the son of council treasurer Christian Förster who gave him his first musical instruction in singing and playing on various instruments. He began organ studies with local organist Johann Philipp Pitzler, with whom he traveled. In 1710 he met Johann David Heinichen in Weissenfels, who at the time was working as a lawyer. With Heinichen, he took lessons in general bass and also began studying composition. When Heinichen went to Italy, Förster moved to Merseburg where he continued his studies with the Kapellmeister and court organist Georg Friedrich Kaufmann. Later, in 1717 he was employed as a chamber musician in the Sachsen-Merseburg Hofkapelle where he played second violin to Johann Gottlieb Graun, whom he later superseded as Konzertmeister. In 1723, Förster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag
Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag (abbreviated to Hofmeister) is a publisher of classical music, founded by Friedrich Hofmeister in Leipzig in 1807. Early listings included composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt. Hofmeister was the first to publish Mahler's Second Symphony. Pedagogical works, such as a Violinenschule of Hubert Ries (1841), are still in use. The company sells sheet music internationally, including Asia and America. History Friedrich Hofmeister, born in 1787, first founded a music store in Leipzig in April, 1807. Early listings include composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Luigi Cherubini, Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Carl Maria von Weber, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, John Field and Franz Liszt. In the early years, he published a balance of music by popular composers, pedagogical material, and young composers such as Robert Schumann, Chopin, Clara Wieck-Schumann and Hector Berlioz. Pedagogical volumes included a Gitarrenschule (guitar) by Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Joachim Schulze
Hans-Joachim Schulze (born 3 December 1934) is a German musicologist, a Bach scholar who served as the director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig from 1992 to 2000. With Christoph Wolff, he was editor of the ''Bach-Jahrbuch'' (Bach yearbook) from 1975 to 2000. He published an introduction to all cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach in 2006. Career Born in Leipzig, Schulze studied musicology and German studies at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1952 to 1954, and at the University of Leipzig from 1954 to 1957. He worked at the Bach Archive in Leipzig as its director from 1992 to 2000. He achieved a Ph.D. at the University of Rostock with studies of the history of Bach tradition in the 18th century (Studien zur Bach-Überlieferung im 18. Jahrhundert). He was awarded the Hanns Eisler Prize in 1973 for the ''Dokumente zum Nachwirken Johann Sebastian Bachs 1750–1800'' (Documents of the legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach 1750–1800), which he edited. In 1993, Schulze was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaspar Friedrich Nachtenhöfer
Kaspar is a given name and surname which may refer to: Given name: * Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1459 – c. 1527) * Kaspar Albrecht (1889–1970), Austrian architect and sculptor * Kaspar Amort (1612–1675), German painter * Caspar Aquila, sometimes spelled Kaspar, (1488–1560), German theologian and reformer * Kaspar or Caspar Barlaeus (1584–1648), Dutch polymath, Renaissance humanist, theologian, poet and historian * Kaspar Anton von Baroni-Cavalcabo (1682–1759), Italian painter * Kaspar von Barth (1587–1658), German philologist and writer * Kaspar Bausewein (1838–1903), German operatic bass * Kaspar or Gáspár Bekes (1520–1579), Hungarian nobleman * Kaspar Anton Karl van Beethoven (baptized 1774, died 1815), brother of composer Ludwig van Beethoven * Kaspar Brandner (1916–1984), German World War II soldier awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross * Kaspar Braun (1807–1877), German wood engraver * Kaspar Brunner (died 1561), Swiss mechanic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christmas Hymn
A Christmas carol is a carol (a song or hymn) on the theme of Christmas, traditionally sung at Christmas itself or during the surrounding Christmas holiday season. The term noel has sometimes been used, especially for carols of French origin. Christmas carols may be regarded as a subset of the broader category of Christmas music. History The first known Christmas hymns may be traced to 4th-century Rome. Latin hymns such as Veni redemptor gentium, written by Ambrose, Archbishop of Milan, were austere statements of the theological doctrine of the Incarnation in opposition to Arianism. Corde natus ex Parentis ('' Of the Father's heart begotten'') by the Spanish poet Prudentius (d. 413) is still sung in some churches today. In the 9th and 10th centuries, the Christmas sequence (or prose) was introduced in Northern European monasteries, developing under Bernard of Clairvaux into a sequence of rhymed stanzas. In the 12th century the Parisian monk Adam of Saint Victor began t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanza
In poetry, a stanza (; from Italian language, Italian ''stanza'' , "room") is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or Indentation (typesetting), indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme scheme, rhyme and Metre (poetry), metrical schemes, but they are not required to have either. There are many different : Stanzaic form, forms of stanzas. Some stanzaic forms are simple, such as four-line quatrains. Other forms are more complex, such as the Spenserian stanza. Fixed verse, Fixed verse poems, such as sestinas, can be defined by the number and form of their stanzas. The stanza has also been known by terms such as ''batch'', ''fit'', and ''stave''. The term ''stanza'' has a similar meaning to ''strophe'', though ''strophe'' sometimes refers to an irregular set of lines, as opposed to regular, rhymed stanzas. Even though the term "stanza" is taken from Italian, in the Italian language the word "strofa" is more commonly used. In music, groups of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Da Capo Aria
The da capo aria () is a musical form for arias that was prevalent in the Baroque era. It is sung by a soloist with the accompaniment of instruments, often a small orchestra. The da capo aria is very common in the musical genres of opera and oratorio. According to Randel, a number of Baroque composers (he lists Scarlatti, Hasse, Handel, Porpora, Leo, and Vinci) composed more than a thousand da capo arias during their careers.Randel (2003:54) Form A da capo aria is in ternary form, meaning it is composed of three sections. The first section is a complete song with accompaniment, ending in the tonic key, and could in principle be sung by itself. The second section contrasts with the first in its musical key, texture, mood, and sometimes also tempo. The third section was usually not written out by the composer, who would instead simply note the instruction "da capo" (Italian for "from the head") - meaning from the beginning, i.e., the first section is to be repeated. The text for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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