CD 4/5
Tyrolean Musical Treasures 4
Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter (1665-1742) is probably the most important Tyrolean composer of the Baroque era. He was from Kitzbühel and became the director of the court and cathedral music for the cardinal prince-bishop of Passau in 1705. The pieces presented here are the only orchestral suites of his that have been preserved. Other compositions by Aufschnaiter are documented on CD 89 (eight church sonatas) and CD 8, which is the first representative presentation of a selection of his distinguished oeuvre in the domain of sacred music. Aufschnaiter’s Baroque world of sound is contrasted with the new Sturm und Drang style and the beginnings of the classical one. The composer Johann Zach (1699-1773) of Bohemia was one of the major pioneers of this new kind of music at the time. His practically revolutionary contribution to the development of symphonic music can be appreciated especially in his instrumental works preserved at Stams Monastery. The music archive there has the world’s largest collection of Zach’s compositions in its custody, giving the cultivation of cultural life in the Tyrol a special responsibility. All of the symphonies by this internationally important composer that are kept in Stams Monastery have therefore already been performed and recorded for CDs in the framework of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum’s concert program. Apart from this recording, Music from Stams Monastery IX (CD 31/32) documents nine more symphonies and two harpsichord concertos.
CD 2, Track 11, 2:28
Presto
Johann Zach
(1699-1773)