Christlieb Sigmund Binder (1723-1789)
- Divertimento (G-Dur)
Performers: Pаulіna Tkаczyk (cembalo); Kаrolіna Jеsіonek (traverso)
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German composer. The son of an oboist, he probably received music
instruction as a Dresden choirboy from Pantaleon Hebenstreit, to whom he
was referred by the court in 1742 to learn his teacher’s dulcimer-like
invention, the pantaleon. It was as a pantaleonist that he became a
court musician in 1751, but he also performed as a harpsichordist. In
1764 he became second organist to Peter August in the court’s Catholic
chapel, and he was first organist from August’s death in 1787; both were
active as harpsichordists in Dresden’s public musical life. Most of
Binder’s career took place in the reign of Friedrich August III, an
amateur musician, and his compositions reflect the court’s active
interest in keyboard and chamber music. His extant works show a mixture
of Empfindsamkeit and earlier Baroque elements, although they require
greater virtuosity. The intense slow movements and the concentrated
development of thematic material echo the style of C.P.E. Bach, but the
keyboard figuration and choice of genres hark back to J.S. Bach;
similarly, exact gradations of dynamics are interspersed with Baroque
echo effects. Although Binder was a prolific composer, his influence was
virtually confined to Dresden; few of his works were published in his
lifetime. Binder had two sons who were also musicians. August Siegmund
Binder (1761-1815) was an organist and composer who became first
organist of the electoral chapel on his father’s death in 1789; he
composed harpsichord sonatas, organ preludes, cantatas and sacred music,
but only the preludes have survived (D-Dl). Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand
Binder (1764-?) was an instrument maker in Weimar who specialized in
harps.
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