Wolfgang Iten (1712-1769) - Majestas Domini (1748)
Performers: Ensemble Arcimboldo; Thilo Hirsch (leitung)
Further info: Musik aus Schweizer Klöstern mit Tromba Marina
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Swiss composer. He entered the school of the Benedictine monastery at
Engelberg in 1725 and took his monastic vows on 20 February 1729. He was
probably taught music by Ildephons Straumeyer, phonascus and choir
director at Engelberg, and by the composer Benedikt Deuring between 1733
and 1736. Deuring’s sacred works were almost entirely lost in a fire at
the monastery on 29 August 1729, together with works by Italian and
south German composers (including Corelli, Steffani and J.V. Rathgeber),
and after the fire Iten composed a new repertory. His first dated works
are from December 1735. In 1737 he was made principal Kapellmeister at
the monastery; he also played the trumpet. The majority of Iten’s 149
extant works are motets, offertories and Marian antiphons for soloists
and choir, usually with two violins and organ; two works include parts
for the Trumpet marine: Pastorella, 1738, and Aria de S.P.N. Benedicto,
1751. A Missa brevis solemnis, dated 2 February 1739, has also been
ascribed to him; it is for four voices and instruments (including two
trumpets and timpani). Iten’s music exemplifies the prevailing,
Neapolitan-influenced concertante style, including recitatives and
arias. It is not without a certain elegance, though marred by the
occasional clumsiness. He also provided Latin contrafacta for the 40
Italian arias op.1 by his friend Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von
Schauensee (1720-89) and wrote two German Passion plays. For one of
these, intended for use on Good Friday 1757 by his congregation in Auw,
where he had become parish priest in 1754, he also supplied songs.
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