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unusual facts about Baroque-era Germany



Admiralitätsmusik

Telemann: Hamburger Admiralitätsmusik; Overture in C (Mieke van der Sluis (soprano), Graham Pushee, Rufus Müller (tenor), Klaus Mertens, David Thomas, Michael Schopper (bass); Alsfeld Vocal Ensemble, Bremen Baroque Orchestra; conductor: Wolfgang Helbich).

American Kantorei

The Kantorei is dedicated to the performance of church music from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Neoclassicism (music) periods.

Angat, Bulacan

It displays baroque architecture, with its interior replicating the Sistine Chapel, recently remodeled but preserving its old architecture.

Art for Everyday

Employing woodcarving technology and hand crafting techniques, Art For Everyday uses themes and motifs inspired by nature and historical aesthetics, particularly the Baroque, Renaissance and Gothic era.

Brody, Żary County

From 1740 it was a possession of the Saxon statesman Heinrich von Brühl, who had an extended Baroque palace built, where he received Elector Frederick Augustus II of Wettin and kept his famous Meissen Schwanenservice tableware of more than 2.000 pieces designed by Johann Joachim Kaendler.

Cinco Siglos

Cinco Siglos is focused on the instrumental repertoires from the Middle Age, the Renaissance and the Baroque periods, with preference on those that combine the cultivated and popular styles.

Congress Square

Among them, there is the early Baroque Ursuline Church of the Holy Trinity, the Kazina building, one of the few Neoclassical buildings remaining in Ljubljana after the earthquake of 1895, the Slovenian Philharmonic building, and the rectorate of the University of Ljubljana, formerly the seat of the Provincial Diet of the Duchy of Carniola.

Credo

In Mass settings of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic period the Credo line is usually set for whole choir, such as in the Symbolum Nicenum (Nicene Creed) of Bach's Mass in B minor, where the composer uses plainchant as the theme for a fugue, in the later Masses of Haydn, and the Missa Solemnis of Beethoven.

Dmytro Chyzhevsky

Dmytro Ivanovich Chyzhevsky (March 3, 1894 – April 18, 1977) was a Ukrainian-born scholar of Slavic literature and the literary baroque.

Driscoll House

The building is on the south side of New Kent Road, between the Bricklayers' Arms flyover and Elephant and Castle station, and is a well-detailed example of the pre-World War I institutional Baroque style.

Elizabeth Farr

Farr has recorded a number of baroque composers for the Naxos label, notably Byrd, Philips and d'Anglebert on harpsichord, and a recording of Bach's lute-harpsichord music.

Federiko Benković

The dramatic, often tortured, poses and lighting of his figures are placed within earthy tenebrist backgrounds, He uses Piazzetta's and Sebastiano Ricci's unfinished and ragged brushstrokes, but superimposes a startling mystical imprint that is often foreign to the magisterial and olympian Venetian painting, and more akin to the Baroque painters from Northern Italy, Alessandro Magnasco and Francesco Cairo.

Francés de Corteta

Francés de Corteta, also known as Corteta de Prades (in French François de Cortète and Cortète de Prades; Agen, 1586 – Hautefage, September 3, 1667) was a nobleman from the Agen province and an Occitan-language poet and baroque play writer.

Franz Wilhelm Rabaliatti

In 1754/55 he built a baroque church in Mutterstadt for a construction cost of 2580 Guilders, which was extensively restored between 1977 and 1980.

Gesamtkunstwerk

A later example occurs in the Baroque, for instance the work of the Austrian Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, who was an architect and sculptor, as well as an architectural historian.

Giovanni Battista Brevi

Giovanni Battista Brevi (Bergamo, ca. 1650; Milan, after 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer.

Giovanni di Filippo del Campo

Giovanni di Filippo del Campo (1600, Cambrai – 1648, Madrid), was a Flemish Baroque painter active in Rome.

Giovanni Rovetta

Giovanni Rovetta (1596–1668) was an Italian Baroque composer and maestro di capella of the Capella Marciana at St Mark's Basilica, Venice between Monteverdi and Cavalli.

Greek Orthodox Church and Museum, Miskolc

The Baroque iconostasis was carved in the workshop of Miklós Jankovits of Eger, the pictures (with the exception of four of them) were painted by Anton Kuchelmeister of Vienna.

Imperial Abbey of Corvey

The Carolingian west end of the abbey, with its landmark matching towers (built 873–885) survives, the earliest standing medieval structure in Westphalia, but the abbey church is now Baroque.

International Ballet Festival of Havana

There were galas dedicated to Cuban and French composers, to baroque composers, to Frédéric Chopin, Igor Stravinski and Manuel de Falla- to commemorate the 120th anniversary of his birthday and the 50th of his death-, and as well to the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, key figure in the classic ballet.

Jagdschloss Baum

These early Baroque portals were installed in 1758 and were probably created between 1604 and 1606 for the Bückeburg Palace's first-floor great hall.

Johann Gottlieb Graun

Johann Gottlieb Graun (27 October 1703 – 28 October 1771) was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist, born in Wahrenbrück.

Johannes Zick

Johannes (Johann) Zick (January 10, 1702 – March 4, 1762) was a German painter of frescoes in southern Germany and active during the Baroque period.

José Luis Cuevas Museum

This church is considered to be a mix of styles between Mexican Baroque and Neo-classic.

Kynžvart Castle

From 1682 to 1691, Count Philipp Emmerich turned the decayed ruins into a Baroque castle; from 1821 to 1836, the Austrian Chancellor Klemens Wenzel von Metternich remodeled it in the imperial style with the help of architect Pietro Nobile.

Lednice

The estate house – designed and furbished by baroque architects Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Domenico Martinelli, and Anton Johan Ospel – proclaimed rural luxury on the grandest scale.

Lobnya

Within two kilometers from Marfino is the manor of Nikolskoye-Prozorovskoye, which contains a Neo-Baroque country house of Field Marshal Prozorovsky and a Neoclassical church of St. Nicholas, built in the 1790s.

London Bach Society

By 1985 the development of Baroque instruments and the technique of the players was such that the choir was able to perform the St Matthew Passion with a complete orchestra of period instruments and this they did for the opening concert of the 1985 Bath International Music Festival in Wells Cathedral and later in 1987 at Westminster Abbey, the latter being the last time Steinitz conducted the work.

Luigi Acquisti

Acquisti, along with Giacomo Rossi, helped promote the transition from the graceful figures of the baroque and the flowery rococo to the heroic scenes inspired by Benedetto Alfieri.

Masterworks Chorale

by Galen Marshall (born 1934 in Greensburg, Kansas), and currently conducted by Dr. Bryan Baker, the mixed chorus presently consists of 90 members, and performs a wide variety of music from the Renaissance and Baroque to modern masterpieces.

Naryshkin Baroque

The first baroque churches were built in the estates of the Naryshkin family of Moscow boyars.

Njål Sparbo

Among his performances are Mahler’s ”Lieder eines fahrendes Gesellen” with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields in London, Bach’s ”Christmas Oratorio” with the Drottningholm's Baroque Orchestra in Uppsala and Rossini’s ”Petite Messe Sollenelle” in Köln Philharmonie, Kverno's "St. Matthew Passion" in New York and Manoa in Handel's "Samson" at the London Handel Festival.

Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach

The title Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach refers to either of two manuscript notebooks that the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach presented to his second wife, Anna Magdalena.

Petrine Baroque

The Petrine Baroque structures outside St Petersburg are scarce; they include the Menshikov Tower in Moscow and the Kadriorg Palace in Tallinn.

Prague 2

Important sights:Charles Square- the biggest square in Prague and also among the biggest squares in Europe - with the New City Hall / Gothic town hall, Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Botanical Gardens and several Charles University buildingsin Albertov, as well as the Baroque Villa America.

Rachel Begley

Rachel J. Begley is a professional recorder and baroque bassoon virtuoso from England, now based in Long Island, New York, U.S. She has performed and interacted with many of the leading recorder players of this generation, including the Flanders Recorder Quartet.

Raphael Cotoner

It was during Raphael's tenure as Grand Master that the Italian Baroque artist Mattia Preti started work in Valletta's St. John's Co-Cathedral.

Religious Jewish music

Salamone Rossi, a composer at the court of Mantua, published a volume of psalm settings in a Baroque style similar to Monteverdi, but this did not become widely popular in synagogue use until revived in the late 19th century.

Rondò Veneziano

Rondò Veneziano is an Italian chamber orchestra, specializing in Baroque music, playing original instruments, but incorporating a rock-style rhythm section of synthesizer, bass guitar and drums, led by Maestro Gian Piero Reverberi, who is also the principal composer of all of the original Rondo Veneziano pieces.

Schloss Favorite

Lustschloss Favorite (Mainz), baroque chateaux that existed between 1722 and 1793 in Mainz, Germany

Shuvalov

the Baroque palace of Ivan Shuvalov on Italianskaya Street, constructed in 1749-55 to a design by Savva Chevakinsky, later sold to the Ministry of Justice, best known as the place where the Imperial Academy of Arts started to operate;

Sicilian Baroque

Sicilian architects — even Andrea Giganti, once a competent architect in Baroque — now began to design in the neoclassical style, but in this case in the version of the neoclassical adopted by fashionable France.

Skrzeszew, Sokołów County

The Baroque-Neoclassical church from 1st half of 18th century, was damaged in 1915 and restored in 1918.

Sor Marcela de San Félix

For many women of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and Baroque periods to live a life completely retired from the world implied that they could live a life not only fully committed to God, but it also meant that they were able to devote time to their own writing, to their community and perhaps they could even have a place in the administration of their own convents.

Summer Archbishop's Palace

The baroque sculptor Georg Rafael Donner had a studio in the palace garden for almost 10 years.

Terrell Stone

His solo recordings include a compact disc of the solo music of Johann Paul Schiffelholz (misattributed to Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello) for gallichon, a 3 CD box set containing partitas composed by Silvius Leopold Weiss for baroque lute from the Warsaw manuscript, and a CD containing music of 16th century Paduan lute composers recorded in the famous anatomical theater of the "Università degli Studi di Padova" (University of Padua).

Tina Chancey

Baroque Recorder Concerti - Concertos by Telemann, Vivaldi, Graupner, Naudot, and Babel featuring recorder virtuoso Scott Reiss.

Zabór

It is known for the Baroque Zabór Castle built in 1677, formerly held by the noble house of Schoenaich-Carolath.

Zorneding

Martin (parish church), late Baroque, built 1719 to 1723, Late Gothic Madonna at the choir arch, Gothic baptismal font, richly stuccoed.


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