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Graupner - "The Art of Imitation": Trio Sonatas

Posted By: zamorna

Date: 1 Nov 2009 20:27:27

Christoph Graupner was one of the most prolific composers in Germany of his time. He wrote a large number of instrumental and vocal works, which until the last five years or so have been almost completely neglected.

Born in Kirchberg in Saxony he received his first music lessons from local musicians, and then went to Leipzig in 1696 as an alumnus of the Thomasschule. The time in Leipzig turned out to be crucial for his development as a musician and composer. Here he became acquainted with Telemann, who was the leader of the local Collegium Musicum. […]

Together with his friend Johann David Heinichen he studied with the then Thomaskantor Johann Kuhnau, who thoroughly instructed them in counterpoint. In his autobiography Graupner writes that "both I and Heinichen had much profit from his teachings, both for harpsichord and composition. […]"

The study of counterpoint had a lasting influence on Graupner. Just like Heinichen he developed a special interest in the canon. In 1730 he started to write 5625 canons on the same subject. And in 1736 he copied Kuhnau's treatise Von dem doppelten Contrapunct, which was circulating only in manuscript. This is most remarkable, as at that time the aesthetic of the Enlightenment quickly won ground. Its main theorist was Johann Mattheson, who, in 1723 in his journal Critica Musica, specifically wrote that the foundation of music is not the canon but melody and that the ability to write a melody owes little or nothing to the artifice of the canon.

The ensemble Antichi Strumenti has devoted a whole disc to Graupner's fascination for the canon and for the principle of imitation in general. It has selected 6 canons and also recorded all of Graupner's sonatas for 2 violins and b.c. These were presumably composed as late as the first part of the 1740's. Imitation and counterpoint are dominating in the sonatas in minor keys and in the slow movements of the sonatas in major keys. Also recorded is a canon sonata, one of four Graupner wrote in 1737. Here the canon sometimes turns from a 2-part into a 3- or even 4-part structure. As a contrast two canon sonatas by Graupner's contemporaries Fasch and Molter have been recorded, which are rather more conventional. - Johan van Veen (musica-dei-donum.net, 2005)

Tracklist:

Christoph Graupner
01-03 Trio à 2 Violini e Cembalo c-moll
04 Kanon zu 4 Stimmen

Johann Friedrich Fasch
05-08 Sonata: Canon à 2 Violini e Cembalo d-moll
09 Kanon zu 3 Stimmen

Christoph Graupner
10-13 Trio à 2 Violini e Cembalo E-Dur
14 Kanon zu 2 Stimmen

Christoph Graupner
15-18 Canon all'unisono a 2 Violini, Violoncello e Cembalo F-Dur
19 Kanon zu 2 Stimmen

Christoph Graupner
20-23 Trio à 2 Violini e Cembalo g-moll
24 Kanon zu 3 Stimmen

Johann Melchior Molter
25-27 Canon. Sonata à 3 / 2 Violini e Cembalo A-dur
28 Kanon zu 4 Stimmen

Christoph Graupner
29-32 Trio à 2 Violini e Cembalo D-Dur

Performers:

Antichi Strumenti
(Gerd Uwe Klein, violin
Laura Tofetti, violin
Tobias Bonz, cello,
Andrea Marchiol, harpsichord)

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