Elias Bronnemüller (1666-1762) - Suite in d, No.1
Performers: Joël Katzmann (cembalo)
Further info: Early Music of the Netherlands (1700-1800)
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German composer, active in the northern Netherlands. He is said to have
been a pupil of Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti and C.A. Lonati, and,
about 1690, he taught Johann Mattheson. In 1703 he visited Arnhem from
Kleve, where he may have been employed. Shortly afterwards he went to
The Hague, and then settled in Amsterdam, where, on 21 June 1709, he was
granted a privilege to publish his own works. Three volumes, mainly of
instrumental music, appeared in Amsterdam and Leeuwarden in 1709–12.
1762 is often given as the year of his death, but this is not confirmed
by contemporary documents. Bronnemüller’s compositions are all in the
international, italianate idiom of the time, with something of a German
flavour, being less polished than, for example, Corelli’s or Albinoni’s.
His sonatas are all of the da chiesa type, but sometimes deviate from
the standard slow–fast–slow–fast sequence and include the occasional
dance movement. The keyboard suites contain an introductory toccatina
and a number of dance movements, not following any standard scheme. A
figure often employed, almost as a musical ‘signature’, is the
chromatically descending 4th in the bass.
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