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2 unusual facts about Music of Innsbruck


Music of Innsbruck

The city is also well-known to music-lovers as the subject of 15th-century composer Heinrich Isaac's tenorlied Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen, with a text about his sorrow at having to leave his post at court.

Innsbruck was the site of the first non-court opera house in Germanic lands, though it was funded mainly by the Archduke and provided with much of its repertoire by his court composer, the resident Italian Antonio Cesti.



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