Johann Jakob Walther, not to be confused with organist Johann Gottfried Walther, was a violinist and composer of the late seventeenth century who worked in the city of Mainz in southwestern Germany. Both Walthers influenced Bach; the publication called Hortulus Chelicus (Garden of the Lyre) excerpted here exemplified the tradition of violin ...
Spain's King Charles V, who was reportedly the first monarch to be styled "His Majesty," makes an ideal subject around which to organize a program of Renaissance music -- examining the way music would have been used during his reign throws a good deal of light on the entire musical culture of the Renaissance. A Fleming from Ghent by birth, Charles ...
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