Johann Christoph Pez (1664-1716) - Concert pastorella

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Johann Christoph Pez! 🥂🎻 Composer: Johann Christoph Pez (1664-1716) Work: Concert (F-Dur) pastorella Performers: Elisabeth Tοncοurt & Hans Maria Knеihs (recorders); Austrian Tοnkuenstler orchestra; Zlatko Tοpοlski (conductor) Concert pastorella 1. Pastorale 0:00 2. Aria 3:12 3. Aria 4:55 4. Passacaglia 7:18 5. Aria 14:36 Painting: Nicolas Colombel () - Christus und die Samariterin HD image: Map: Johann Baptist Homann (1663-1724) - Bavariae (1716) HD image: Further info: Listen free: No available --- Johann Christoph Pez [Petz] (Munich, 9 September 1664 - Stuttgart, 25 September 1716) German singer, instrumentalist, and composer. His family had long been connected with music at the Peterskirche, Munich. He first studied at the choir school there and then pursued studies at that city’s Jesuit school, where he sang in its choir and played in its orchestra. After singing tenor at Peterskirche, he served as its choirmaster (1687-88). He then was made a chamber musician at the court of the Elector Max Emanuel, who provided for the completion of his studies in Rome (1689-92). Following a brief return to the Munich court, he was called to Bonn by Joseph Clemens, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and Bishop of Liege, to reorganize its music establishment in 1694. In 1696 he became Kapellmeister there. With the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession, he returned to the almost moribund Munich court in 1701, where he led its church music. From 1706 he served as Kapellmeister at the Wiittemberg court in Stuttgart, where he remained until his death. Pez’s music shows strong Italian influence, the result not only of his visit to Italy but also of his contacts with other Italian-trained musicians in Munich, especially Kerll, who was one of the first composers to bring the Italian concertato style of church music there. He composed various dramatic scores, school operas, instrumental music, and sacred vocal pieces. He published a set of 12 sonatas (Augsburg, 1696) under the title ’Duplex Genius sive Gallo-italus Instrumentorum Concentus’; also a Psalm. Two of his operas were produced in Bonn.