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KEHL, Johann Balthasar (1725-1778) - Concerto ex C dur (c.1775)

Marco Ricci (1676-1730) - Rehearsal of an opera (c.1709)


Johann Balthasar Kehl (1725-1778) - Concerto ex C dur | Cembalo Obligato | Violino primo | Violino Secondo
| con | Basso. (c.1775)
Performers: Walter Opp (pianoforte); Bayreuther Hof Musique ensemble

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German organist, cellist and composer. He began his education at the Ratsschule in Coburg in 1733 and in 1742 moved to Bayreuth, where he studied under Johann Pfeiffer. Appointed as cellist in the court musical ensemble, he eventually decided on a career in church music, becoming organist at the Neustädter Kirche in Erlangen in 1762, where his students included Johann Paul Schulthesius and Johann Wilhelm Stadler. In 1774 he returned to Bayreuth as stadtkantor, becoming blind a year or so before his death. His music has been little studied, although Johann Adam Hiller stated that 'he was one of the best and most accomplished harpsichordists of his time' and considered his oratorios 'the epitome of good, large-scale choral composition'. His surviving music includes two oratorios, some ballets, a harpsichord concerto, seven keyboard sonatas, a few miscellaneous keyboard works, and a collection of chorales published in 1764. 

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