diumenge, 18 de desembre del 2022

BAAL, Johann (1657-1701) - Missa tota a 4 Voci

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Johann Baal (1657-1701) - Missa tota (A-Dur) a 4 Voci
Performers: Johanna Koslowsky (soprano); David Cordier (countertenor); Wilfried Jochens (tenor); Stephan Schreckenberger (bass) Mensa Sonora Freiburg; Gerhard Weinzierl (conductor)

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German organist and composer. He was the son of a long-established saddler family. Almost nothing is known about his life. He was mentioned on his twenties when he assumed the post of organist and composer at the court of Peter Philipp von Dernbach. In 1685 he left the court to join the Münsterschwarzach monastery where he was ordained as a Pater Marianus Baal on 12 June 1688. As a composer only few works has survived and almost whole of them preserved in manuscript; during his life, only a four set of motets, entitled 'Argumentum et inscriptiones ... opus primum', were published. His most important surviving work is the 'Missa tota' in A-Dur, which was praised and copied by Johann Sebastian Bach (Kyrie) and Johann Gottfried Walther (Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei). There are also some motets for solo voice and figured bass based on sacred poetry, as well as a violin sonata in a-Moll.

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