Voktett Hannover, founded in 2012, is one of Germany's leading a cappella formations, having won the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition in 2015 and the German Choir Competition in 2018.
Performer Biography
Lajos Rovatkay, the conductor, played a prominent role in establishing historically informed performance practice in Germany and is currently focused on recording the music of Gregor Joseph Werner.
Compositional Technique
Antonio Caldara, a Venetian composer, introduced the highly expressive augmented sixth chord and other chromatic devices, which became a signature of his pupil Gregor Joseph Werner.
Historical Context
The contrapuntal density and masterful fugues in these works reflect the influence of the music-loving Emperor Charles VI, himself a pupil of Caldara, and the strict Palestrina counterpoint of Johann Joseph Fux.
Composition History
Gregor Joseph Werner's Requiem in G minor is a deeply personal and coded work, with the title page deliberately left without his name, and its composition is a collaboration between Werner and Caldara.
Composition History
This recording presents Antonio Caldara and Gregor Joseph Werner side by side as master and master student, prompted by a discovery regarding Werner's Requiem in G minor.
Composer Biography
Gregor Joseph Werner was Joseph Haydn's immediate predecessor as Kapellmeister at the Esterházy royal court in Kismarton (now Eisenstadt, Austria).
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