Johann Valentin Rathgeber (1682-1750) - Orgelkonzert F-Dur

★ Follow music ► Composer: Johann Valentin Rathgeber (1682-1750) Work: Orgelkonzert F-Dur Performers: Bаvаriаn Brаss Painting: Giacomo Francesco Cipper (1664-1736) - Domestic Scene with Musicians and Woman Spinning () HD image: Engraving: François van Bleyswyck (1671-1746) - An architectural view of the newly constructed organ above the entrance of the Groote Kerk at Maassluis (1732) HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Johann Valentin Rathgeber (Oberelsbach, 3 April 1682 - Banz, 2 June 1750) German composer. He studied with his father, the village organist and schoolmaster and then pursued theological training. In 1701 he entered the University of Würzburg to study theology, and in 1704 became a schoolmaster and organist at the Juliusspital in Würzburg. He went to the Benedictine abbey of Banz early in 1707 as chamber musician and servant to the abbot, and by the end of the year had become a novice. Following his ordination in 1711, he served as choirmaster in Banz for the rest of his life. In 1721 the Augsburg firm of Lotter issued the first of his many publications, a volume of masses. Eight years later, when he had established a considerable reputation as a composer of church music, he sought permission to leave Banz for a European tour; he was refused and left without it. He visited Würzburg, Augsburg, Bonn, Cologne, Trier and Benedictine houses in Swabia and around Lake Constance. One of his reasons for making this tour seems to have been to gather information about performance conditions and liturgical customs in the Catholic areas of Germany. As a musician, he was particularly known as a composer of sacred music, which included many Latin mass settings, Vesper psalms, offertories, and other works (20 vols., Augsburg, 1721-39). Among his other works were 24 concerti grossi (1728) and various keyboard pieces (1743). He also edited and arranged the well-known collection of popular song settings ’Ohrenvergnugendes und Gemüth-ergötzendes Tafel-Confect’ (3 vols., 1733, 1737, 1746).