Josef Anton Sehling (1710-1756)
- In natali Domini
Performers: Thurgauer Kammerchor und Barockensemble; Raimund Rüegge (conductor)
Drawing: Jean Sauvé (1635-1692) - Prague
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Bohemian composer. After studying music in Prague and Vienna, he was
appointed choirmaster of two Prague monastic churches, as well as court
musician and composer of Count Morzin. He was also active as second
violinist to the metropolitan Prague Cathedral from 11 January 1737. He
did not succeed in gaining either the post of choirmaster (in March
1737) or that of a first violinist there (1739), but he assisted the
choirmaster Jan František Novák during the latter’s illness. In 1743 his
music to the drama Judith was performed by the Prague Jesuits on the
coronation of Maria Theresa as Queen of Bohemia. In Sehling’s music
collection, which formed a large part of the metropolitan chapter music
library (591 items, now in CZ-Pak), sacred works of retrospective
(Venetian and Viennese) and modern (Neapolitan) style are equally
represented. His own output stands between the late Baroque and
pre-Classical styles. His apparently earlier compositions are close in
style to the sacred music of Caldara, while in other works a Neapolitan
continuo-homophony predominates. The instrumental parts, especially
violins, gradually assume a more important role, while the vocal parts
are subordinate and rather static. His Christmas motets, pastoral masses
and pastorellas are among the most important specimens of the genre in
Bohemia before F.X. Brixi. His brother František Sehling (1715-1774) was
a tenor and instrumentalist; he sang at Prague Cathedral from 1743, and
acted as deputy when Josef Antonín was absent.
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