Biber - Mystery Sonatas
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Label: Passacaille
Cat No: PAS1088
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 9th December 2022
Contents
Artists
Mayumi Hirasaki (violin)Jan freiheit (viola da gamba)
Michael Freimuth (archlute, theorbo)
Johannes Loescher (violone)
Christine Schornsheim (harpsichord, positive organ)
Works
Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas and PassacagliaArtists
Mayumi Hirasaki (violin)Jan freiheit (viola da gamba)
Michael Freimuth (archlute, theorbo)
Johannes Loescher (violone)
Christine Schornsheim (harpsichord, positive organ)
About
The Salzburg court musician Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704) composed, according to his preface, fifteen sonatas "to the honour of the fifteen holy mysteries" of the Rosary, dedicating these to his prince-archbishop Max Gandolph von Kuenburg in a manuscript decorated with small medallion-like copperplate engravings. Biber, a native of Bohemia, had gone to visit to the Tyrolean master violin maker Jacobus Stainer to purchase instruments in 1670, but failed to return to his then employer, Karl von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, Bishop of Olomouc, who resided in Kremsier. Biber, who had presumably taken advantage of lessons for some time with Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, violinist to the Imperial court in Vienna, apparently preferred to take up a position at the Salzburg court.
The above manuscript, the only known source of the Mystery or Rosary Sonatas – the prime reason that Biber is known to today's musicians – accords with the structure of the chain of prayers. This cycle of sonatas was most probably known only to the Salzburg prince-archbishop and his chamber musicians during Biber's lifetime.
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