CD 27/28
Music from Stams Monastery VI
J. N. Strickner (?), View of Stams Monastery (detail), 1754
This set of two CDs contains almost all of the orchestral works by Stefan Paluselli. A versatile musician, Paluselli was the conductor of the singers and orchestra at Stams Monastery. He played several instruments and is one of the most gifted and important composers of the Tyrol. Stefan Paluselli came from Kurtatsch in South Tyrol, where he was born on 9 January 1748. His secondary school studies took him to Innsbruck, where he received his first regulated musical training. It was not long before he made his debut as a composer. In 1770 he entered Stams Monastery as a conventual and stayed for the rest of his life until his death in 1805. His multifarious oeuvre has been preserved almost only in his home monastery. He composed pieces not only for church feasts, e.g. masses, offertories, hymns and motets, but also for various other more profane festivities in the monastery, such as a large number of cantatas, often intended for the abbot’s name- day celebrations. Especially valuable in terms of musical artistry are Paluselli’s large- scaleinstrumentalcompositions (partitas, the sonata, serenata, etc.) that are presented on these CDs for the first time since they were written. The first CD of this production series is a live recording of the “Personale” with orchestral works by Stefan Paluselli performed on 9 September 1995. Besides the pastoral ballet, the second CD contains excerpts from the program of the Third Chamber Music Serenade with Music from Stams Monastery on 20 August 1995, forming the conclusion of the “Personale.” Both concerts took place at the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum in the framework of the 1995 Innsbruck Summer.
CD 1, Track 26, 1:30
La Simplicitá
Stefan Paluselli OCist.
(1748-1805)