Siegbert Rampe, Nova Stravaganza - Christoph Graupner: Orchestral Works Vol. 3 (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 321 Mb | Total time: 60:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: MDG | # 341 1628-2 | Recorded: 2009
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 321 Mb | Total time: 60:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: MDG | # 341 1628-2 | Recorded: 2009
The study of counterpoint had a lasting influence on Graupner. Just like Heinichen he developed a special interest in the canon. In 1730 he started to write 5625 canons on the same subject. And in 1736 he copied Kuhnau's treatise Von dem doppelten Contrapunct, which was circulating only in manuscript. This is most remarkable, as at that time the aesthetic of the Enlightenment quickly won ground. Its main theorist was Johann Mattheson, who, in 1723 in his journal Critica Musica, specifically wrote that the foundation of music is not the canon but melody and that the ability to write a melody owes little or nothing to the artifice of the canon.