Georg Matthias Monn (1717-1750)
- Sinfonia (B-Dur) à Quattro
Performers: Camerata Bern
Further info: Georg Matthias Monn (1717-1750) - Concerto a 5
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Austrian organist and composer. Although born into a musical family,
little is known about the details of his early life, save that he was a
chorister at Klosterneuburg, where he no doubt learned enough about
music to become an organist there around 1731. His other positions were
at the monastery in Melk and subsequently around 1736 at the Karlskirche
in the Viennese suburb of Wieden. He was also active at the Holy Roman
court, where his instrumental music was extremely popular. His life was
cut short prematurely by a lung ailment, probably pneumonia, although he
suffered from ill health his entire life. His most important student
was Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, probably for whom Monn created a
treatise titled 'Theorie des Generalbasses in Beispielen ohne
Erklärung', which remained unpublished. As a composer, his works include
16 symphonies, eight concertos (six for keyboard, one for violin, one
for cello, plus another arrangement of a harpsichord concerto for cello
or contrabass), partitas, three fanfares, and three preludes and fugues
for organ. His style represents the infusion of the homophonic texture,
contrasting themes of the early sonata principle, and fundamental
modulatory patterns that reflect the predominant style of the late 18th
century. He was also one of the first to create the fourmovement
symphony by adding a minuet in one of his works. His brother Johann
Christoph Monn (1726-1782) was also a composer and teacher.
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