Der Herr ist auferstanden: Arias & Duets for Eastertide

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Franz Vitzthum
Georg Poplutz
Martin Jopp
Henrike Seitz
Jörn-Sebastian Kuhlmann
Barockorchester Frankfurt

Johann Christoph Graupner

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Christoph Graupner, unlike Johann Sebastian Bach, favored simplicity in music, stating in his Darmstadt Choralbuch that "Simplicity [has] a great deal to say in music."

Critical Reception

Christoph Graupner's extensive body of work was largely ignored for nearly 150 years after his death, with musicians and scholars only beginning to study it at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century.

Composition History

Christoph Graupner applied for the vacant position of Thomaskantor in Leipzig in 1723, a post famously taken by Johann Sebastian Bach, but the Landgrave of Darmstadt refused to release him.

Compositional Technique

Christoph Graupner often used programmatic movements in his overture-suites, giving them titles like 'La morosità' (moroseness), 'La speranza amorosa' (amorous hope), or 'Il sospetto' (suspicion).

Compositional Technique

Christoph Graupner's concertos often deviated from the popular Vivaldian style, featuring a four-movement structure (slow-fast-slow-fast) and treating solo violins less as independent soloists and more integrated with the tutti strings.

Composer Biography

Christoph Graupner, the composer, was acquainted with all the important composers of his time, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Georg Friedrich Handel.

Compositional Technique

Christoph Graupner's orchestral writing, particularly in his cantatas, shows a "playful" and "galant" side, with a love for small motifs that are spun and varied, a technique also found in his early operas.