Georg Druschetzky's concertos and concert pieces for multiple tympani and orchestra may hold interest for scholars as documents of the truly unusual in Classical music, and some practical value for tympanists in search of obscure repertoire; but the general listener will be mildly amused for about five minutes, and then grow impatient with these ...
One of Michael Haydn's symphonies was taken for Mozart for a long time, and a good deal of their music is linked by its Salzburg roots. The sacred music on this disc, however, either postdates or predates Mozart and sounds very little like him. Included are four short masses for the Lenten season (all but one lacking Glorias, like some other ...
Poor Christian Geist; his name, in German, means ghost and the colloquial phrase "den Geist aufgeben" means to give up the ghost; something Geist was repeatedly having to do in a professional sense before he did so in a corporeal sense. Born in the very North German town of Güstrow about 1650, Geist opted to follow in his father's footsteps, as ...
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