Jiří Melcelius (1624-1693)
- Missa absque Nomine (1666)
Performers: Consortio Mеlcеlii; Michael Pοspíšіl (conductor)
Further info: Missa absque Nomine (1666)
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Bohemian organist and composer. Nothing is known about his youth and
musical education. He was a member of the Premonstratensian order. His
life was passed in a succession of ecclesiastical musical appointments,
the most notable of which was at St Benedikta, Prague, between 1663 and
1669. There he was organist and choirmaster and was apparently
responsible for modernizing the repertory and building up an archive. In
his last years, he retired to the Strahov monastery in Prague. As a
composer, he mainly wrote sacred music, among them, several masses, a
Requiem, a Te Deum and Vespers. His music style was close to Adam Michna
and Pavel Vejvanovský, the foremost bohemian composers during 17th
Century.
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