Stefan Paluselli (1748-1805)
- Missa Paesana (c.1790)
Performers: Mieke van der Sluis (soprano); Bernhard Landauer (alt);
Peter Zimpel (bass); Kammerchor des Ferdinandeums; Concerto Armonico
Budapest; Miklós Spányi (organ); Josef Wetzinger (conductor)
Further info: Stefan Paluselli (1748-1805) - Partita D-Dur (c.1772)
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Austrian composer and choirmaster. A member of the Cistercian order. His
musical talent led him to be accepted as a boarder at the St
Nikolaihaus in Innsbruck around 1760, where the students were maintained
free of charge and performed as choristers or instrumentalists in the
university church choir. At the same time he attended the Innsbruck
Gymnasium; after concluding his studies there, in 1768 he probably
studied philosophy at the University of Innsbruck. In 1770 his Singspiel
Das alte deutsche Wörtlein Tut was performed at the Gymnasium theatre.
In the same year he entered the abbey of Stams, notable for its
cultivation of music. He devoted himself to the study of theology and in
1774 he was ordained a priest in Bressanone. He became violin teacher
to the abbey school in 1785 and was promoted to head music instructor
and choirmaster in 1791. About 1790 he developed a solmization system
for teaching the choirboys at Stams which resembled the system
constructed by Agnes Hundoegger in Germany a century later. However,
like his work as a whole, it did not have wide influence. Paluselli was
one of the most notable musical personalities of 18th-century Tyrol.
Even his early works exhibit the strong personal style that elevates his
music above that of other monastic composers. In his secular and sacred
works alike he sometimes followed traditional models but at other times
displayed unique approaches to the sequence of movements, internal form
and text setting. Both in melodic construction and form he prefers an
aggregation of small units to large-scale thematic design and
development. His music is occasionally reminiscent of Vivaldi. Other
characteristics include passages in a folk idiom, finely nuanced
rhythmic writing and a certain musical playfulness for which he had a
special gift. He also contributed to the development of programmatic
music, in particular with his Soggetti diversi.
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