18th-century symphonies, like those on this album, typically featured a fast-slow-fast movement sequence, sometimes with an additional minuet, thematic development, and often four-bar phrasing.
Historical Context
The Innsbrucker Musikverein, whose archive is featured on this album, was founded in 1818 by leading figures of Tyrolean intellectual and cultural life.
Recording & Production
The extensive library of the Innsbrucker Musikverein, containing the works on this album, has been preserved in its singular completeness as the old collection of the conservatory library.
Historical Context
The archive contains dozens of handwritten 18th-century symphonies by both locally important and internationally leading composers, including Carl Stamitz, Antonio Rosetti, Joseph Haydn, and Leopold Mozart.
Historical Context
The Innsbrucker Musikverein, which housed the archive for this album, was dissolved by the National Socialists de facto in 1938 and de jure in 1941.
Interpretation
Concerto Stella Matutina, the ensemble on this recording, specializes in historical performance practice on original instruments.
Composer Biography
Among the founders of the Innsbrucker Musikverein were two renowned Tyrolean composers: Johann Baptist Gänsbacher, a friend of Carl Maria von Weber, and P. Martin Goller OSB, who taught at the Musikverein until his death.
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