The research project behind this album, funded by the FWF (Austrian Science Fund), documents late medieval music culture in the Austrian region (ca. 1340-ca. 1520), a period when the Habsburgs became a world power and Vienna a music capital.
Performer Biography
Stimmwerck, a vocal ensemble founded in Munich in 2001, consists of sought-after specialists in ensemble singing: tenors Gerhard Hölzle and Klaus Wenk, bass baritone Marcus Schmidl, and countertenor Franz Vitzthum.
Performer Biography
David Erler, an alto on this recording, is a scholarship recipient of the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung Munich and studied voice in Leipzig, focusing on early music and historical performance practice.
Performer Biography
David Erler is also chief editor of Johann Kuhnau's complete cantatas, published by Pfefferkorn Musikverlag Leipzig.
Recording & Production
The recordings by the vocal ensemble Stimmwerck were produced in conjunction with a musicological research project at the University of Vienna.
Album & Artwork
The name 'Stimmwerck' derives from Michael Praetorius's teaching manual 'Syntagma Musicum' and refers to a group of the same instruments or what is now called a chord.
Performer Biography
Stimmwerck engages in intensive exchange with musicological disciplines and active investigative work in archives as a basis for its artistic creations, especially focusing on Renaissance vocal music.
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