Johann Philipp Käfer Vidéos
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Johann Philipp Käfer Battaille Kares Carl Wilhelm Molter Kuhnau Zachow Krieger Handel 1647 1672 1690 1692 1693 1708 1714 1715 1717 1718 1719 1722 1725 1728 1733
Autor: Johann Philipp Käfer +••.••(...)) Obra: Suite 'Musicalische Battaille' Intèrprets: Karlsruher Barockorchester; Kirstin Kares Pintura: Jan van Huchtenburgh +••.••(...)) - Ruitergevecht (c.1690) Més info: (http•••) Listen free: (http•••) / Johann Philipp Käfer (Schney, 21 April 1672 - Pforzheim, 24 Jan 1728) German organist and composer. He became court organist at Römhild in 1692, where, in the same year, he married Anna Maria Sterzberg, widow of his predecessor; he remained there until 1708 when he was appointed court Kapellmeister at Hildburghausen. In 1715 Käfer moved to Durlach as court composer to Margrave Carl Wilhelm of Baden-Durlach; subsequently he was made court Kapellmeister. He composed successful operas for the Durlach stage until 1718 when the court moved to Karlsruhe and he was required to produce sacred music for the new chapel; he wrote at least three cycles of cantatas. His attempts to have his operas performed in Karlsruhe were hindered by the director of stage machinery Philippe Scandalibene and the bass singer and Catholic priest Natale Bettinardo. Without this source of additional income Käfer ran into debt and in moving petitions he implored the Margrave to improve his salary. Through misunderstandings the situation became strained and on 23 August 1722 he was dismissed and succeeded by J.M. Molter. Käfer then settled in Pforzheim where he built up a modest existence from teaching and directing cantata performances at local churches. Little can be said of Käfer’s musical contributions as an opera composer, since all the scores are apparently lost, but the overture, aria, choruses and dance movements in his Musicalische Battaille give an idea of his operatic style. His Sonata a 4 and cantatas would have been somewhat old-fashioned in the 1720s (a fact that may have played a part in Käfer’s dismissal), but they prove him to be a gifted contemporary of Kuhnau, Zachow and J.P. Krieger. Käfer’s son Johann +••.••(...)), who played the flute and organ and was a court musician at Durlach, wrote an opera trilogy Die asiatische Banise (pt i, Balacin, pt ii, Chaǔmigren, pt iii, Banise; some arias from pt iii, D-SHs, librettos in Cl, W, WRtl). These operas were performed at Coburg in 1714 and later at Durlach (c1716), where his opera Almire und Fernando (to the same libretto as Handel’s Almira) was performed in 1717 (music lost). In 1718 he wrote a cycle of epistle cantatas Musicalische Seelen-Erbauung (text only, Durlach, 1719) for the chapel at Karlsruhe, where he remained with his mother until his death. All his works have been frequently misattributed to his father.
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