The Dresden Vespers heard here are not a single composition but a group of works composed in the early 1720s by Johann David Heinichen for the Feast of St. Francis Xavier at the Catholic court of Augustus the Strong in Dresden. Although not claimed as such in the notes, these seem to be world premieres, and they're well worth hearing for anyone with the slightest interest in the German Baroque. The presence of Catholic church music in the midst of Protestant Germany is an interesting story, told in detail in the notes, but ...
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The Dresden Vespers heard here are not a single composition but a group of works composed in the early 1720s by Johann David Heinichen for the Feast of St. Francis Xavier at the Catholic court of Augustus the Strong in Dresden. Although not claimed as such in the notes, these seem to be world premieres, and they're well worth hearing for anyone with the slightest interest in the German Baroque. The presence of Catholic church music in the midst of Protestant Germany is an interesting story, told in detail in the notes, but it wasn't a big problem for Heinichen, who had spent seven years in Venice soaking up the latest Italian trends. Dresden was a major musical center that intersected with the life of J.S. Bach, among others, but the music here sounds more like what Vivaldi was writing in the 1720s, with hints of the galant style to come. Indeed, one might take some of Heinichen's fetching tunes for those of the Italian master. Sample the Beatus vir in E flat major, S. 28. Heinichen's larger pieces, a...
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