Johann Ernst Eberlin (1702-1762)
- [M]issa (solemnis brevis) | à | Voci.
con | Violini. | Clarini. | Timpani. | Organo. | è | Bassi Soliti.
Performers: Soli, Domchor & Domorchester Salzburg; Andrea Fournier (conductor)
Further info: Johann Ernst Eberlin (1702-1762) - Missa in C
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German composer and organist. He received his earliest musical education
at the Jesuit Gymnasium in Augsburg in 1712, where he was a pupil of
Georg Egger and Balthasar Siberer. He moved to Salzburg in 1721 to
attend university, and in 1727 he was named organist in the main
cathedral. By 1749 he had attained the position of Kapellmeister for
Archbishop Schrattenbach, which he held until his death. In 1752
Eberlin’s daughter Maria Josefa Katharina Eberlin (1730-1755) married
Anton Cajetan Adlgasser, who two years later became cathedral organist.
Eberlin received the honorary appointment of Titular-Truchsess, or
princely steward, in 1754 and was widely honoured and respected at the
time of his death. Leopold Mozart, in his description of the Salzburg
musical establishment (published in F.W. Marpurg’s 'Historisch-kritische
Beyträge zur Aufnahme der Musik', 1757), called Eberlin ‘a thorough and
accomplished master of the art of composing … He is entirely in command
of the notes, and he composes easily and rapidly … One can compare him
to the two famous and industrious composers, [Alessandro] Scarlatti and
Telemann’. As a composer, he was known mainly for his sacred music,
which was written for both the main cathedral, the Benedictine-run
university, and the St. Peter’s monastery church. These include over 95
plays and other didactic music such as the monodrama 'Sigismundus'
(1763), 11 oratorios, three operas, 58 Masses, 160 settings of the Mass
Proper, numerous hymns, litanies, Psalms, and responsories as well as 21
German sacred arias, nine Requiems, three symphonies, nine toccata and
fugues, 65 preludes and versetti, and other smaller keyboard works.
Eberlin influenced composers of the next generation chiefly through his
sacred vocal music, among them Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and
Johann Michael Haydn. His daughter, Maria Caecilia Barbara Eberlin
(1728-1806), also became a composer and was married to composer Joseph
Meissner.
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