Johann Anton Reichenauer

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Johann Anton Reichenauer (Czech Antonín Reichenauer , * around 1694 in Prague , † March 17, 1730 in Neuhaus (Bohemia) ) was a Bohemian Baroque composer .

Life

Nothing is known about Johann Anton Reichenauer's childhood and education. His stay as choirmaster at the Dominican Church of St. Maria Magdalena on Prague's Lesser Town is documented only in 1721 . He was also associated with the chapel of Count Wenceslaus Morzin, for which he regularly wrote works. According to some sources, he also worked for Count Franz Joseph Czernin . At the end of his life he became organist at the parish church in Neuhaus, South Bohemia, where he died less than a month after taking office.

Works

Numerous works by Reichenauer are stored in archives and libraries in Bohemia, Silesia, Saxony and Hesse. Its presence in the most diverse collections outside of Prague speaks for a certain popularity beyond its homeland. In the library inventory of the Osek monastery from the years 1720–1733, a total of 40 sacred vocal works by Reichenauer are listed.

Reichenauer was known as a prolific composer of church music. His musical thinking was strongly influenced by the school of Antonio Vivaldi , whom he often quoted in his works. He was the first Bohemian composer of pastoral masses, his "Missa Pastoralis" in D major was written around 1720. A series of concertos for violin, oboe, bassoon, cello, orchestral overtures and trio sonatas have also been preserved from his pen.

It is only since the beginning of the 21st century that Reichenauer's works have reappeared in concert programs as part of new musicological editions of numerous instrumental concerts.

Discography

  • 2008 Rorate Coeli - Advent & Christmas in baroque Prague with the ensemble "Collegium Marianum" (Label Supraphon, Series Music from Eighteenth-Century Prague)
  • 2010 Concerti - Various solo concerts with the ensemble " Collegium 1704 " under Václav Luks (Label Supraphon, Series Music from Eighteenth-Century Prague)
  • 2011 Concerti II - Various solo concerts with the ensemble “Musica Florea” under Marek Štryncl (Label Supraphon, Series Music from Eighteenth-Century Prague)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antonín Reichenauer: Concerto in G per oboe, due violini, viola e basso , [urtext], ed. Lukáš M. Vytlačil, Fontes Musicae Bohemiae 1, Togga, Praha 2016. ( exemplum on-line )
  2. ↑ http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Missing+music%3F+The+Baroque+Concerto+in+Bohemia.-a0211630632
personal data
SURNAME Reichenauer, Johann Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichenauer, Antonín
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian Baroque composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1694
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1730
Place of death Jindřichův Hradec