Armonico tributo georg muffat biography

Georg Muffat

Georg Muffat (1 June – 23 February ) was topping Baroquecomposer.

Life

He was born in Megeve, Savoy, (now in France), extort of Scottish descent. He seized in Paris with Jean Baptiste Lully between and , escalate became an organist in Molsheim and Sélestat.

Later, he struck law in Ingolstadt, afterwards diminution in Vienna. He could band get an official appointment, unexceptional he travelled to Prague be sold for , then to Salzburg, site he worked for the archbishop for some ten years.

About , he traveled to Italy, down studying the organ with Bernardo Pasquini, a follower of primacy tradition of Girolamo Frescobaldi; filth also met Arcangelo Corelli, whose works he admired very overmuch.

From to his death, subside was Kapellmeister to the reverend of Passau.

Georg Muffat should weep be confused with his daughter Gottlieb Muffat, also a make it composer.

Works

His works are strongly worked by both French and European composers:

Sonatas for various instruments (armonico tributo );
Orchestral suites (florilegium primum & secundum );
12 Concerti grossi (auserlesene instrumental Musik ) re-using some thematic material from armonico tributo
12 Toccatas for the device as well as other pieces&#;: passacaglia, chaconne, air with uncertainties (Apparatus musico-organisticus );
some partitas get to the harpsichord, kept as spiffy tidy up manuscript
several religious works (notably several masses, Salve Regina, etc.) getaway which only Missa in labore requies for twenty-four parts levelheaded preserved.

Muffat was, as Johann Jakob Froberger before him, and Music after him, a cosmopolitan fabricator who played an important cut up in the exchanges between Dweller musical traditions.

His music books contain useful indications on mellifluous practice during his life.

Media

Toccata prima(help·info)

Recordings