This class will focus on exploring trumpet music of Bohemian/Moravian composers Pavel Vejvanovsky, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, and Philipp Jakob Rittler, as well as Gottfried Finger and Henry Purcell.
Georg Muffat called Bohemian music “mixed style”, a cultural reflection of Bohemia being a crossroads of Europe, with influence from all areas. Although Moravian by birth, Vejvanovsky, Biber, Rittler and Finger all employed a musical language that was truly a combination of Viennese, Italian, German and French styles. Finger also spent time in England, allowing a further mixing of styles with English composers such as Purcell. Bohemian lands have a rich history for the trumpet, dating as far back as the time when Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I was the head of the Habsburg court in Innsbruck. Between 1490-1514, there were over 30 trumpeters receiving salaries in court records where their responsibilities included playing for processions, at table and feasts, in the chapel and the main parish church. Even if you don’t play the trumpet, this is a chance to experience the trumpet parts on your own instrument/voice.
Level: open to all levels
Audience: trumpeters, singers, instrumentalists of any type will be welcome to play or sing along with examples; observers also welcome!
Pitch: mostly A=415; with some exercises also provided at A=440
Format: Lecture/Demo/Play- and Sing-along
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