Michael Alexander Willens, Die Kölner Akademie - Johann Mattheson: Der liebreiche und geduldige David (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 308 Mb | Total time: 60:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 360-2 | Recorded: 2007
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 308 Mb | Total time: 60:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 360-2 | Recorded: 2007
Johann Mattheson gained lasting renown as a music writer with his two main works Die musikalische Ehrenpforte and Der vollkommene Kapellmeister, with the latter representing a foundational writing on cultural politics, musical aesthetics, and compositional practice in the first half of the eighteenth century. Mattheson was also himself a composer and experienced his most productive phase in this capacity during his years as cathedral music director at the Hamburg Cathedral (1715-28). He wrote twenty-four oratorios and other works for the cathedral music until increasing deafness forced him to resign from his post.