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Reinhard Keiser
Reinhard Keiser (9 January 1674 – 12 September 1739) was a German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas. Johann Adolf Scheibe (writing in 1745) considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann, but his work was largely forgotten for many decades. Biography Keiser was born in Teuchern (in present-day Saxony-Anhalt), son of the organist and teacher Gottfried Keiser (born about 1650), and educated by other organists in the town and then from age eleven at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where his teachers included Johann Schelle and Johann Kuhnau, direct predecessors of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1694, he became court-composer to the duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, though he had probably come to the court already as early as 1692 to study its renowned operas, which had been going on since 1691, when the city had built a 1,200-seat opera house. Keiser put on his first opera ''Procris und Cephalus'' there and, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croesus (opera)
''Der hochmütige, gestürzte und wieder erhabene Croesus'' (''The Proud, Overthrown and Again Exalted Croesus'') is a three-act opera (described as a "Singe-Spiel") composed by Reinhard Keiser. The German language libretto by Lucas von Bostel was based on Nicolò Minato's 1678 dramma per musica ''Creso'', the music for which was composed by the Emperor Leopold I. Keiser's ''Croesus'' received its first performance at the Theater am Gänsemarkt, Hamburg, in 1711 (exact date unknown). Later, the composer extensively revised the opera for a new version, which premièred at the same theatre on 6 December 1730. In the process, he discarded much of the original material, and, in consequence, only the 1730 version has survived in complete form. The first performance in modern times was given in 1990 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris (conductor René Clemencic), and first full performance in turn was given in 1999 at the Berlin State Opera (conductor: René Jacobs). The fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librettist and incorporates a number of the performing arts, such as acting, scenery, costume, and sometimes dance or ballet. The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble, which since the early 19th century has been led by a conductor. Although musical theatre is closely related to opera, the two are considered to be distinct from one another. Opera is a key part of the Western classical music tradition. Originally understood as an entirely sung piece, in contrast to a play with songs, opera has come to include numerous genres, including some that include spoken dialogue such as '' Singspiel'' and '' Opéra comique''. In traditional number opera, singers employ two st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pomona (opera)
''Der Sieg der fruchtbaren Pomona'' (The Victory of Fruitful Pomona) is a German-language opera by Reinhard Keiser to a libretto by Christian Heinrich Postel which premiered at the Hamburg Opera on 19 October 1702, for the birthday of Frederick IV of Denmark. The plot was based on the legend of Pomona and Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousand ..., and the libretto was the last of a series which the elderly poet Postel had provided to the young Keiser during the five previous opera seasons. The opera was the first of four Keiser operas dedicated to the Danish crown. The opera was revived in 2010 by the conductor Thomas Ihlenfeldt.Berliner ZeitunTriumph auf karger Bühne/ref> References 1702 operas Operas by Reinhard Keiser Opera world premieres at the Ham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesus Christus Ist Um Unsrer Missetat Willen Verwundet
''Jesus Christus ist um unsrer Missetat willen verwundet'' is a St Mark Passion which originated in the early 18th century and is most often attributed to Reinhard Keiser. It may also have been composed by his father Gottfried or by Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns. Johann Sebastian Bach produced three performance versions of the Passion, the last of which is a pasticcio with arias from George Frideric Handel's ''Brockes Passion''. There are two other extant 18th-century versions of the Passion, both of them independent of Bach's versions. The Passion was performed in at least three cities in the first half of the 18th century: in Hamburg in 1707 and 1711, in Weimar around 1712, and in Leipzig in 1726 and around 1747. History The passion was probably composed around 1705 by Gottfried Keiser,Bach Digital Work at by his son Reinhard,NBA 2000 (score edition) or by Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns.Reinmar Emans, Sven Hiemke ''Bach-Handbuch. Bachs Oratorien, Passionen und Motetten'' 2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns
Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns or Brauns (11 February 1637 in Lollfuß – 13 March 1718 in Hamburg) was a German composer and music director in Hamburg. Bruhns was born in Lollfuß, Schleswig. In 1682 he succeeded Nicolaus Adam Strungk in charge of the Hamburger Ratsmusik, later also taking on the charge of St. Mary's Cathedral. He was in practice succeeded by Johann Mattheson in 1715, but still formally held the positions till his death in Hamburg in 1718. Handel joined the opera orchestra during Brauns' time. Both the ''Johannes-Passion'' (1702) and '' Markus-Passion'' (1705) were for a long time attributed to Reinhard Keiser. The ''Markus-Passion'' is also attributed to Gottfried Keiser, Reinhard's father.Bach Digital Work at Bach performed the ''Markus-Passion'' in Weimar and in Leipzig. Several pasticcio versions of the ''Markus-Passion'' survive, but Bach's copy preserved the original. The earliest attribution to Keiser can be found in Bach's copy. Works *''Johannes-Pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosimo Stawiarski
Cosimo Stawiarski (born 1974) is an Italian classical violinist and music editor, focused on music of the late 17th and early 18th century. Life Born in Copertino, Stawiarski studied Baroque violin at the University of the Arts Bremen, with Chiara Banchini at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and with Lucy van Dael at the Sweelinck Konservatorium Amsterdam. He also studied musicology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.(Deutsch) Cosimo Stawiarski, Violine (in German) escapades.de The main focus of his work is the research and performance of North and Central German music of the late 17th and early 18th century. He has played with , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Muffatti
The orchestra Les Muffatti was created in 1996 in and around the Royal Conservatory of Brussels by a group of twelve idealistic musicians who wanted to ensure that the Baroque music repertoire for string orchestra was sufficiently addressed in their education. The members agreed to work on several projects per year, inviting a different music director for each one. When the group began to realize that its potential as a steady ensemble was growing quickly, and each member had specialized in Baroque strings, they decided, by the end of 2003, to present Les Muffatti to the public and give it a more official character. The group attracted new members and began to look for a regular music director, settling on Peter Van Heyghen, an internationally recognized specialist in performance practices of Renaissance and Baroque music. In June 2004, the ensemble performed its debut concert in Brussels under his direction. Les Muffatti was promptly noticed by several concert organizers, and imme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vox Luminis
Vox Luminis are a Belgian early music vocal ensemble led by Lionel Meunier. Their recording of Heinrich Schütz's ''Musicalische Exequien'' for Ricercar won a Gramophone Award and International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) in 2012. Recordings (choice) * Domenico Scarlatti: Stabat Mater a 10 voci. Te Deum. Salve Regina. Vox Luminis Ensemble Ricercar 2007 * Samuel Scheidt - Cantiones Sacræ Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier Ricercar 2010 * Heinrich Schütz: Musicalische Exequien Ricercar, * English Royal Funeral Music. Morley Purcell Tomkins Weelkes Les Trompettes des Plaisirs, Lingua Franca & Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier 2013 * Reinhard Keiser: Brockes-Passion. Tóth, Van Elsacker, Kooij, Les Muffatti and Vox Luminis, Peter Van Heyghen Ramee 2014 * Lassus: Biographie Musicale Volume V Lassus l’Européen Musique en Wallonie 2015 * J. Bach, J.Chr. Bach & J.M. Bach: Motetten Ricercar 2015 * Johann Fux: Kaiserrequiem Kerll: Missa pro defunctis. Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier Ricercar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Kooij
Peter Kooij (or, internationally Kooy, born 1954, in Soest) is a Dutch bass singer who specializes in baroque music. Biography Kooij started his musical career at 6 years as a choir boy. However he started his musical studies as a violin student. He came back to singing, with tuition from Max van Egmond at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam which led in 1980 to the award of the diploma for solo performance. His international career started in 1981 under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe, with La Chapelle Royale and the Collegium Vocale Gent, with whom he interpreted mainly Johann Sebastian Bach, and also performed Henri Dumont, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Heinrich Schütz and Jean Gilles. From the mid-1990s much of his career was dedicated to the recording of Bach's complete cantatas with the Bach Collegium Japan, directed by Masaaki Suzuki. In 2002 he founded together with Monika Frimmer, Christa Bonhoff and Dantes Diwiak a quartet ''Tanto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brockes Passion
The ''Brockes Passion'', or ' (title in English: ''The Story of Jesus, Suffering and Dying for the Sins of the World''), is a German oratorio libretto by Barthold Heinrich Brockes, first published in 1712 and going through 30 or so editions in the next 15 years. Text Barthold Heinrich Brockes was an influential German poet who re-worked the traditional form of a Passion oratorio, adding reflective and descriptive poetry, sometimes of a highly-wrought and emotional kind, into the texture of his Passion. The Brockes Passion was much admired and set to music numerous times in Baroque Germany, although to other ages and in other countries some of Brockes' poetry has seemed in poor taste. In Brockes' version of a passion, a tenor Evangelist narrates, in recitative passages, events from all four Gospels' accounts of Jesus' suffering and death. Persons of the Gospel story (Jesus, Peter, Pilate, etc.) have dialogue passages, also in recitative; a chorus sings passages depicting the decla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Friedrich Hunold
Christian Friedrich Hunold (born 29 September 1680 in Wandersleben near Gotha, died 16 August 1721 in Halle) was a German author who wrote under the pseudonym Menantes. Biography Hunold went to school in Arnstadt and continued in 1691 at the ''Gymnasium Illustre Augusteum'' in Weißenfels until 1698. From 1698 until winter 1699/1700 he studied law and languages at the University of Jena. His first novel, ''Die Verliebte und Galante Welt'' (Hamburg: Liebernickel, 1700), was an instant success. The publication of his novel ''Satyrischer Roman'' (Satyrical Novel) in 1706 caused a scandal. Hunold moved to Halle and held private seminars. The second part of ''Satyrischer Roman'' was published in Stade by Hinrich Brummer in 1710. Hunold continued his own studies and graduated in 1714 in law. He died 6 August 1721 in Halle of tuberculosis. A biography of him by Benjamin Wedel was published in 1731 including some of his letters. Libretti Hunold wrote the libretto ''Der bluti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vologeso
''Il Vologeso'' is the title of several operas, based on the same story as Apostolo Zeno's ''Lucio Vero'', but in a later version (1700), which had first been set to music as ''Vologeso, re de' Parti'' by Rinaldo di Capua in 1739 to a libretto by Guido Eustachio Luccarelli. The best-known version, and the only one to be revived and recorded in the modern era, is ''Il Vologeso'' (1766), an opera by Niccolò Jommelli. The same libretto was also set by many other composers, including Antonio Sacchini and Davide Perez. It was set at least fifteen times under the title ''Lucio Vero'' and at least five under the title ''Il Vologeso''. It was also set by Ariosti under the title ''Lucio Vero, imperator di Roma'' (1727), by Reinhard Keiser under the title ''Lucius Verus'' (1728) and by Davide Perez under the title ''Berenice'' (1762). Following contemporary tastes, the librettos were altered in the course of the century to shorten recitatives and simplify the plot. Plot The plot con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
