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Salzburger Bachchoir / Salzburger Barockensemble, Howard Arman: Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Marienvesper 1693

Read "Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Marienvesper 1693" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Heinrich Biber (1644-1704) was a Bohemian fiddler with a serious Marian fixation (or at least his supporters had such a fixation). He is best known for a series of 16 violin sonatas, Mysterien Sonaten, Die Rosenkranz-Sonaten (Mystery Sonatas, Rosary Sonatas), dedicated to the Catholic Archbishop of Salzburg, that he composed between 1670 and 1676. Biber--a show-off predating meister-show-off Nicolo Paganini--originally composed these sonatas so devilishly that only he could perform them. Not so his sacred choral music. His Marian Vespers, ...

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