The Hof-Capelle Carlsruhe’s first collection of Karlsruhe court music featured works by Johann Molter, with some filler by his contemporaries. This volume brings one of those composers — Joseph Aloys Schmittbauer — to the fore. Schmittbauer was a well-respected composer and organist. One of his distinctions was copying Benjamin Franklin’s glass harmonica and then improving […]
Hof-Capelle Carlsruhe
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Intimate Chamber Music by Johann Molter and Colleagues
The liner notes for this release note that the Karlsruhe court “for reasons of cost” eschewed foreign soloists. This implies Johann Molter and other court composers had to keep their vocal writing relatively simple for the local talent. Perhaps so, but the end results were anything but second-tier. Molter has three solo cantatas on this […]