Johann Jakob Stupan von Ehrenstein (1664-1739)
- Ouverture (d-moll) aus
'Rosetum musicum in 6 divisum arcolas, vulgo partittas' (1702)
Performers: Ars Antiqua Austria; Gunar Letzbor (conductor)
Further info: The Music Of The Habsburg Empire
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Austrian composer and court official. Nothing is extant about his early
life. He is mentioned on 31 July 1709, when his drama 'Martis exilium, e
pacis reditus' was performed in Vienna. In 1710, he was appointed high
steward for the imperial court in Vienna. Also in the same year he also
became secretary to Prince Maximilian Wilhelm of Brunswick-Lüneburg. His
final appointment was as councillor to the Dowager Empress Amalie. As a
composer, his known music dates from 1702 to 1711. He wrote the music
for three Jesuit dramas, the mentioned 'Martis exilium' (1709), and
'Radimirus ex reo rex' (1710), both lost, and 'Nundinae deorum' (1711),
which according some sources played an important role in the development
of Jesuit drama and suggests that he was a gifted composer. With its
‘bravura arias firmly in the Neapolitan style and accompanied by various
instrumental combinations … brief, unassuming secco recitatives [and]
extended, well-wrought arias’, it shows that the genre had shed the
features that characterized it up to about 1700. He also left two
collections of three-part music; 'Rosetum musicum in 6 divisum arcolas,
vulgo partittas' (Ulm, 1702) and 'Armonica compendiosa' (Ulm, 1703).
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