HERNANDEZ Y LLANA, Francisco (c.1700-1780) - Cantada de Navidad (1765)

Francisco Hernandez y Llana (c.1700-1780) - Aria 'Barbaro' de la Cantada de Navidad 'Allende el orbe' (1765)

Performers: Mariví Blasco (soprano); Harmonia del Parnàs; Marian Rosa Montagut (conductor)

Painting: Franz Carl Remp (1675-1718) - Der Tanz um das goldene Kalb

Further info: Bárbaro

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Francisco Hernández y Llana [Yllana, Illana]

(Alzira, c.1700 - Burgos, 9 May 1780)

Spanish composer. Originated from Lubiano (Álava), he was born in Alzira (Valencia). He began his career in 1723 upon being appointed maestro de capilla at Astorga Cathedral, during which time he also made unsuccessful attempts to secure the post at Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in 1723 and 1724. He subsequently moved to Valencia in 1728 to serve at the Royal College Seminary of Corpus Christi (El Patriarca), before being appointed maestro de capilla at Burgos Cathedral in 1729, a prestigious position he held for over five decades until his death. As a composer, he cultivated a vast repertoire primarily dedicated to sacred music, characterized by liturgical works and vernacular compositions; notably, his surviving output includes sacred pieces housed across his former places of employment (Astorga, El Patriarca, and Burgos) as well as archives in El Escorial, Segorbe, and Arantzazu (which preserves three Spanish-texted religious works), alongside nine instrumental recercadas preserved at El Patriarca. 

PEREYRA DA COSTA, Antonio (c.1697-1770) - Concerto grosso (1741)

Antonio Pereyra da Costa (c.1697-1770) - Concerto grosso (b-moll) 'Concertos grossos com doys violins, e violão de concertinho obrigados: e outros doys violins, viola e orgão, de concerto grosso a arbitrio

... opera premeira' (1741)

Performers: Ensemble Bonne Corde; Diana Vinagre (conductor)

Painting: Jan Josef Horemans (1682-1759) - A park landscape with a musical party outside an Italianate villa

Further info: Concerti Grossi

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Antonio Pereyra da Costa [Pereira da Costa]

(Funchal, c.1697 - Funchal, 14 April 1770)

Portuguese composer and priest. His early years are unknown. He served as the mestre de capela at the Cathedral of Funchal in Madeira from around 1740 until his death. While contemporary accounts, such as the 1750 Gazeta de Lisboa, attest to his composition of vocal works for regional religious observances, his enduring musicological significance rests upon his surviving Opus 1, a collection of twelve concerti grossi (1741). This corpus constitutes a critical milestone in Iberian music history, representing both the sole extant set of 18th-century concerti grossi of Portuguese provenance and the first printed musical publication by a Madeira-based musician. Stylistically, Pereira da Costa’s instrumental work demonstrates a rigorous mastery of the Corellian Italianate structural model, which he innovatively synthesized with distinct Iberian melodic and rhythmic idioms to produce a highly localized and vibrant expression of the late Baroque aesthetic. He also published 12 Serenatas for the Guitar (London, c.1755).

MÜLLER, Johann Kasper (1743-1804) - Magnificat

Johann Kasper Müller (1743-1804) - Magnificat aus 'Vesperae ex C'

Performers: Cantus et Musica Freiburg; Raimund Hug (conductor)

Painting: Francesco Panini (1745-1812) - Innenansicht von St. Peter in Rom mit päpstlicher Prozession

Further info: Freiburger Kirchenmusik des 18

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Johann Kasper Müller [Muller]

(1743 - Freiburg?, 1804)

German composer. Nothing is known of his life and career. He was probably active as a composer in Freiburg im Breisgau. He presumably served as a parochial organist or Kapellmeister, contributing functional sacred repertoire to the Catholic liturgical traditions of southwestern Germany. While much of his output remains lost, his legacy rests upon a recently recovered collection of Vesperae ex C. This extant manuscript offers insight into regional sacred composition, demonstrating a conservative yet refined adherence to late 18th Century choral counterpoint and homophonic textures characteristic of the southern German church style.

STRATIKO, Josip Mihovil (1728-1783) - Concerto a due Violini Obbligati

Josip Mihovil Stratiko (1728-1783) - Concerto (D-Dur) a due Violini Obbligati

Performers: Bojan Čіčіć & Ivan Jаkšеkovіć (violins); Croаtіаn Baroque Ensemble

Painting: Elias Mögel (?-1786) - Still life with a violin (1760)

Further info: Josip Mihovil Stratiko (1728-1783) - Concerto a due Violini Obbligati

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Josip Mihovil (Giuseppe Michele) Stratiko [Stratico]

(Zara [now Zadar, Croatia], 31 July 1728 - Sanguinetto, 31 January 1783)

Croatian composer and violinist. The son of a Venetian nobleman, he received his education in Padua, where he studied under Giuseppe Tartini and Antonio Sberti. Sometime between 1758 and 1763 he moved to Sanguinetto, a town near Verona, where he accepted the position of vicario. Also there, he wrote his treatise, Trattato di musica, as well as taught pupils. Due to his family connections, he had little need to find employment, and thus he could concentrate on his own theories and musical composition. His works still need a thorough study and include 35 symphonies, 61 violin concertos, 15 violin duos, 170 violin sonatas, six string quartets, and 50 trios, as well as a number of smaller chamber works. His finest compositions are his concertos for the violin, which are strongly influenced by Tartini, and his six string quartets. His brother Symeon Filippos Stratigos (1733-1824) was a prominent physician, educator and scientist known to Goldoni and Voltaire.

ROSQUELLES, Miquel (c.1641-1684) - Magnificat anima mea

Miquel Rosquelles (c.1641-1684) - Magnificat anima mea

Performers: La Companyia Musical; Josep Cabré (conductor)

Drawing: Johann III Stridbeck (1707-1772) - Barcelona, die Haupt Statt in Catalonien (c.1745)

Further info: Florilegium Musicum Cataloniae

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Miquel (Miguel) Rosquelles

(Moià, c.1641 - Barcelona, 29 July 1684)

Spanish teacher and composer. Almost nothing is known of his life. He began his association with the basilica of Santa Maria del Mar in Barcelona in 1669, when the incumbent mestre Josep Reig ceded the duties of the post to him. Rosquelles formally succeeded Reig on 22 February 1674, in a post he held until his death. As a composer, his surviving output comprises five villancicos for 11 to 13 voices, an eight-voice mass, a Nunc dimittis and a Compline (both scored for 15 voices), a Magnificat and the hymn Te lucis ante terminum. As a teacher, his most notable pupil was the prominent theorist and composer Francesc Valls.