NOZEMAN, Jacob (1693-1745) - Sonata a violino solo e basso continuo

Jacob Nozeman (1693-1745) - Sonata (III, A-Dur) a violino solo e basso continuo ... opera seconda (c.1735)

Performers: Antoinette Lohmann (violin); Furor Musicus

Painting: Nicolaas Verkolje (1673-1746) - The anglers

Further info: Jacobus Nozeman (1693-1745) - Sonates Op. 1 (c.1725)

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Jacob (Jakobus, Jacobus, Giacomo) Nozeman [Noseman, Nozemann]

(Hamburg, 30 August 1693 - Amsterdam, 10 October 1745)

Dutch composer, violinist and organist. Son of Johannes Nozeman, a travelling actor, and Anna Rijndorp, he was born in Hamburg during one of his father's tours. He grew up in The Hague and Leiden, where his father most often performed. In 1710, after his father death, he settled in Amsterdam. There he was a regular performer at the theatre (1714-1716) and in 1719 he was appointed organist of the Remonstrantse Kerk, in a post he held the rest of his life. As a composer, his extant works include a set of songs and two collection of violin sonatas which show a typical style of the period in a mixture of the sonata da chiesa and da camera types. In 1717, he married to María Geertruida Costerus with whom had two children, Cornelius Nozeman (1721-1785) and Jan Willem Nozeman (1733-1768).

KOHAUT, Karel (1726-1784) - Simphonie périodique a piu stromenti (1763)

Karel Kohaut (1726-1784) (attr.) - Simphonie périodique a piu stromenti ... no. 46 (1763)

probably composed by his brother Josef Kohaut (1738-1777)

Performers: Frankfurter Solistеn; Vladislav Brunnеr (conductor)

Painting: Circle of Balthasar van den Bossche (1681-1715) - Elegant figures in an interior

Further info: Karl Kohaut (1726-1784) - Lute Concertos

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Karel (Carl, Karl, Carolus) (Ignatius Augustinus) Kohaut [Kohault, Kohout]

(Vienna, bap. 26 August 1726 - Vienna, 6 August 1784)

Austrian lutenist and composer. Son of Jakob Karl Kohaut (c.1678-1762), a court musician to Prince Adam von Schwarzenberg, he received music lessons from his father. In 1756 he entered the civil service, rising to the rank of court secretary in 1778. As a titular member of the court, he had access to and participated in much of the Viennese musical life of the period. He participated as a violinist in performances of quartets by Haydn and Mozart organized by Gottfried van Swieten. As a lutenist, he appeared as soloist in a performance of one of his own lute concertos at an academy of the Tonkünstler-Societät on 17 March 1777, during which one of his symphonies was also performed. Like his colleague Karl von Ordonez, he composed frequently in a style that reflects Georg Christoph Wagenseil. As a composer, his output include a cantata, 12 symphonies, eight Masses (frequently performed at the monasteries of Melk and Göttweig, especially the Missa Sancti Willibaldi), seven lute concertos, seven partitas, a quartet, seven divertimentos (many with lute), and seven trios. His brother Josef Kohaut (1738-1777) was also a lutenist and composer, mainly active in France.

BORGHI, Giovanni Battista (1738-1796) - Letanie a 8 concertato

Giovanni Battista Borghi (1738-1796) - Letanie a 8 concertato

Performers: Judit Janzen (soprano); Regine Röttger (alto); Rainer van Husen (1944-2012, tenor); Michael Flöth (bass); Der Domchor Münster; Santini Kammerorchester; Heinz-Gert Freimuth (1939-2009, conductor)

Drawing: Israël Silvestre (1621-1691) - Gezicht op Loreto met rechts op de voorgrond twee zittende figuren (1642)

Further info: Lauretanische Litanei / Magnificat Anima Mea Dominum / Dixit Dominus

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Giovanni Battista Borghi [Barghi, Borgo, Porghi]

(Camerino, 25 August 1738 - Loreto, 25 February 1796)

Italian composer and organist. He received his earliest training under Girolamo Abos at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples beginning in 1757. By 1759 he was appointed as maestro di cappella at Orvieto Cathedral, during which time he also traveled throughout Italy and may have gone as far afield as Vienna. In 1778 he took over the maestro di cappella post at the Santa Causa Church in Loreto, in a post he held the rest of his life. As a composer, he was best known for his operas written in a mid-century Neapolitan style. His output include 24 operas (split evenly between buffa and seria), 20 oratorios, 11 Masses, 35 introits, 27 graduals, 67 offertories, 14 Psalms, 25 Marian antiphons, six litanies, a violin concerto, and six violin duets. Despite some sources often confuse him with the violinist Luigi Borghi and the harpsichordist Giovanni Borghi, he was not related with them.

KEHL, Johann Balthasar (1725-1778) - Concerto ex C dur (c.1775)

Johann Balthasar Kehl (1725-1778) - Concerto ex C dur | Cembalo Obligato | Violino primo | Violino Secondo

| con | Basso. (c.1775)

Performers: Walter Opp (pianoforte); Bayreuther Hof Musique ensemble

Painting: Marco Ricci (1676-1730) - Rehearsal of an opera (c.1709)

Further info: Johann Balthasar Kehl (1725-1778)

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Johann Balthasar Kehl

(Coburg, 24 August 1725 - Bayreuth, 7 April 1778)

German organist, cellist and composer. He began his education at the Ratsschule in Coburg in 1733 and in 1742 moved to Bayreuth, where he studied under Johann Pfeiffer. Appointed as cellist in the court musical ensemble, he eventually decided on a career in church music, becoming organist at the Neustädter Kirche in Erlangen in 1762, where his students included Johann Paul Schulthesius and Johann Wilhelm Stadler. In 1774 he returned to Bayreuth as stadtkantor, becoming blind a year or so before his death. His music has been little studied, although Johann Adam Hiller stated that 'he was one of the best and most accomplished harpsichordists of his time' and considered his oratorios 'the epitome of good, large-scale choral composition'. His surviving music includes two oratorios, some ballets, a harpsichord concerto, seven keyboard sonatas, a few miscellaneous keyboard works, and a collection of chorales published in 1764. 

PRADAS GALLEN, Joseph (1689-1757) - Trono Sagrado de Luces (c.1725)

Joseph Pradas Gallén (1689-1757) - Trono Sagrado de Luces (c.1725)

Performers: Harmonia del Pаrnàs; Marian Rosa Mοntаgut (conductor)

Painting: Corrado Giaquinto (1703-1766) - Winter (c.1745)

Further info: Villancicos a la Verge de la Cinta

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Joseph (José, Josep) Pradas [Prades] Gallén

(Villahermosa del Río, 22 August 1689 - Villahermosa del Río, 11 August 1757)

Spanish composer. By 1700, he received music lessons from Joan Baptista Cabanilles and Antonio Teodoro Ortells when he was a choirboy at Valencia Cathedral. In 1712 he was appointed maestro de capilla at the parish church at Algemesi, and in June 1717 he secured a similar post at the parish church of Santa María in Castellón de la Plana. Finally, on 2 March 1728 he was promoted to maestro de capilla at Valencia Cathedral, a post he held the rest of his life. He retired on 22 February 1757 and he returned to his native village, where he died a few months later. As a composer, he was one of the most well-renowned Spanish composers of the eighteenth century with over than 400 works, most of them currently extant and preserved in the archives of the Valencia Cathedral and Segorbe Cathedral. His output was mainly religious and includes seven masses, 34 Miserere settings and over 300 villancicos and other vernacular compositions.