tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post5283080260911380987..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Intoxicating Heinichen from DresdenUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-51907631593881806022007-04-02T21:13:00.000+01:002007-04-02T21:13:00.000+01:00Email received:I throughly loved your post about t...<I>Email received:</I><BR/><BR/>I throughly loved your post about these pieces today. <BR/><BR/>I'm not sure if you have ever listened to any music by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel? He was a peer of J. S. Bach , Telemann, Fasch, and Handel. There is a wonderful new release on the CPO label featuring two serenatas by Stolzel. (http://www.cpo.de. ) <BR/><BR/>Some musicologists believe he was the most talented composer of cantatas after Bach, and some even suggest *gasp* better than Bach! <BR/><BR/>Bach apparently copied and performed Stolzel's cantatas in Leipzig, and quoted a theme from Stolzel as well. Bach obviously thought highly of Stolzel. <BR/><BR/>I do research in baroque music and create performing editions-- my focus is another Bach peer-- Christoph Graupner. But what's so sad and tragic about Stolzel, is that when he died, the majority of his music was carted to the attic in the castle where he worked in Gotha, where it was exposed to a leaky room and rain--what survived that was eaten by rats. It's criminal because there's no doubt Stolzel must have composed dozens upon dozens orchestral suites, chamber music as well as many other cantatas. <BR/><BR/>The only reason anything survived is that a patron in another court ordered copies of Stolzel's cantatas and commissioned him for new pieces as well. <BR/><BR/>Anyways, I thought I'd pass this along to you. <BR/><BR/>I love your blog ;) <BR/><BR/>Kim <BR/>-- <BR/>Kim Patrick Clow <BR/>"There's really only two types of music: good and bad." ~ RossiniPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com