Christian Friedrich Witt (1665-1717)
- Sonates a piu stromenti (c.1695)
Performers: Kentucky Baroque Trumpets
Further info: Music for Trumpets
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German composer, organist and teacher. Son of the court organist Johann
Ernst Witt, he received music lessons from his father. After receiveng a
scholarship, he went to Vienna and Salzburg, and then from 1685-1686 he
studied composition and counterpoint with Georg Caspar Wecker in
Nuremberg. On 1 June 1686 he was appointed chamber organist at the Gotha
court. In 1688 he was again sent to study with Wecker. In 1694 he was
appointed substitute for the Kapellmeister, Wolfgang Michael Mylius, and
he succeeded him after his death, in 1713. He was well thought of as a
teacher, not only within the Dukedom of Gotha; the future Duke Friedrich
II was among his pupils. He was also admired as an able keyboard player
and Kapellmeister. He enjoyed good relations with neighbouring courts,
including those of Ansbach-Bayreuth, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and
Saxe-Weissenfels, and several works by him are listed in inventories
from there. He was a versatile composer of both vocal and instrumental
music. His vocal music consists largely of church cantatas, among them
his 'Psalmodia sacra' praised as one of the most important hymnals of
the early 18th Century. His instrumental music includes both
‘ouvertures’ (or suites) in the French style and italianate,
concerto-like sonatas, and varied keyboard works, many of them now lost.
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