Fantasticus! Baroque String Music
When:
Wednesday, Jul 10, 2024 7:30p -
8:45p
Wednesday, Jul 10, 2024 7:30p -
8:45p
Where:
The Chapel at West Parish
210 Lowell St.
Andover, MA 01810
Admission:
$5-35
Hosted by:
Categories:
Date Idea, History, Music, Nightlife
Event website:
http://sohipboston.org
Guts Baroque featuring Andrus Madsen performs whimsical, varied, and fantastical instrumental music from the 17th-century courts of what is now Germany and Austria. Emperor Leopold I, himself a musician and composer, brought several prominent Italian musicians across the Alps to Vienna. These guests, including violin virtuoso Antonio Bertali, received good salaries and plenty of opportunities to perform, to compose, and to teach the new generation of German musicians the stylus fantasticus: the Italian style of purely instrumental fantasies made popular by Italian composers such as Girolamo Frescobaldi. Bertali’s student Johann Heinrich Schmelzer further developed the style, and his innovations helped spread it throughout what is now Germany, teaching and inspiring other prominent composers including Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber.
Guts Baroque
Sylvia Schwartz, violin
Rebecca Shaw, viola da gamba
Andrus Madsen, harpsichord
