Johann Christian Hertel (1697-1754)
- Sonata (2) a violino, Op.1 (1727)
Performers: Rachel Harris (violine); Melanie Beck (violoncello);
Andrea
C. Baur (theorbe und arciliuto); Jennifer Harris (cembalo)
Further info: JC Hertel - Sonaten für Violine und B.C.
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German viol player, violinist and composer, son of Jakob Christian
Hertel. He studied theology at Halle University (1716) and came into
contact with the musician Johann Kuhnau in Leipzig. After studying the
viol with Ernst Christian Hesse in Darmstadt (1717), he was hired in
1718 as a viol player in Duke Johann Wilhelm’s court orchestra in
Eisenach. Throughout his career he made concert tours in Germany and
Holland, including a visit to J.S. Bach in Leipzig in 1726. He was
Konzertmeister and director of music in Eisenach from 1733 until the
dissolution of the Hofkapelle in 1741. On Franz Benda’s recommendation
he came to the Mecklenburg-Strelitz court as Konzertmeister, but there,
as in Eisenach, the Kapelle was dissolved (in 1752), and he retired.
Hertel was one of the best viol players of his time and a prolific
composer of instrumental music, although much of it is lost. While at
Eisenach he pursued the French style, but during his time at Neustrelitz
he adopted the more eclectic taste of the Berlin school. Apart from six
published sonatas for violin and viol or harpsichord (op.1, 1727) his
only extant compositions are in manuscript. These include two overtures,
eight orchestral suites, 22 symphonies, eight violin concertos, one
trio for flute, violin and basso continuo, one sonata for flute, viol
and harpsichord, one overture and 11 sonatas for flute and basso
continuo, one trio for flute, violin, cello, and harpsichord, and one
suite for harpsichord. Four overtures in Darmstadt are lost.
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