Schwanthaler Trompetenconsort der Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Linz
St. Florianer Sängerknaben
Ars Antiqua Austria
Bartholomäus Riedl
Benedict Anton Aufschnaiter
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
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Composer Biography
Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter, born in Kitzbühel in 1665, studied in Vienna and later became court and cathedral Kapellmeister in Passau, succeeding Georg Muffat.
Composer Biography
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, a violin virtuoso, was renowned for his secular compositions and was ennobled by Emperor Leopold I in 1690.
Historical Context
The architecture of Salzburg Cathedral, including galleries for multiple choirs, was designed with specific musical requirements in mind, influenced by Venetian performance traditions.
Composition History
Biber's Vespers a 32 is one of his few sacred works that can be dated with certainty, as its score bears the year 1674.
Compositional Technique
Biber's Vespers a 32 features virtuoso demands on two cornettists and violinists, with cornett parts rarely found elsewhere in European Baroque music for their difficulty.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Biber's polyphonic style was inspired by Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit thinker whose Musurgia universalis (1650) advocated a modular method of composition.
Interpretation
The performers devoted considerable effort to developing an interpretation that reflects Kircher's modular principle, shaping identical musical building blocks in an identical manner.
