Sunday, November 14, 2010

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Kassel and his musical treasures

I n Kassel there is a stunning collection of music, a library with priceless originals and prints.
Store in the library Murhardschen these magnificent treasures - but unfortunately this fact is almost unknown.


N just countless manuscripts of Louis Spohr in Kassel, so long as conductor and music manager "was employed, can be found here are scores of almost all the great composers of the 17th and 18 Century: Monteverdi, Telemann, Jommelli, Lully, etc. Even the most sensational note

find of the 20th Century can post Kassel:

"The Seven Words of Jesus, he on the cross Single, All Day had spoken, movable in the Musick added HENRICH BY PROTECTING "

and that not as some pressure, but in the handwriting of the composer (!!!).
This document is therefore the oldest handwritten score of the world überliferte dar. Composed had



(Heinrich Schütz)


the contactor probably around the year 1650 for the private devotions, who with his friend Elizabeth of Hesse and it was completely unknown to date, because it found in any of the contactor's record collections.

protecting Madrigal-Book in 1611 as Completion of his studies with work and Gabrieli in only 3 copies printed, ONLY survivor in Kassel!



Another great treasure relates to the "Act 61"

Exact name: ". 2 ° Ms. mus 61 on" to
It was titled

"Note sur un Fonds de Musique Francaise de la Bibliotheque de 65 de Jules Cassel SIM Ecorcheville "

this document is bganz particularly unusual, so I copied the contents of the file full:

Manuscrit de CASSEL

2 ° Ms. mus. 61 on

Jules Ecorcheville: Note sur un
Fund de Mvsique Française de la Bibliothèque de Cassel SIM G 5
(Note: J. Ecorcheville was a queen-musicologist at the turn of the century, who discovered this collection and ordered)


61a Jacques Brulard: Branles 1658

61b1 Branles 1658

61b1a Antoine Bauderon de Senec: Le Grand Bransle 1668

61b2 Guillaume Duma Noir: Bransles 1658

61c Bransle Nouveau 1660

61d1 Suite rates 1658 (Michel Mazuel) (Lazzarini)

61d2 Suites 1658

61d3 Michel Mazuel: Suite 1658

61d3 Mignot de la Voye: Suite 1658

61d4 Adrien de la Croix: Suite / Drese Adam: Ballet Suite

61d5 - Suitensätze 1658?
Ballet von Estienne Nau / After 5

61d6 Suite 4 / Suite in G-bmoll

61d7 Suiten 17. Jahrhundert
1. Following
2. Artus: The Pass Feet
3. Bourrée figured the Christiana

61d8 Suite / Bransle to 61st May 1655

Dumanoir: Suite 1658
(Libertas - Sarabande italienne - Current)

61f Suitensätze - Lied - Fantasie 17. Jahrhundert
1. Wilhelm VI. von Hessen: Sarabande
2. Sarabande du Roy
3. Sarabande
4. Current
5. Sarabande
6. Sarabande
7. Frantzösisch Lied wirdt etwas gespielt geschwindt
8. Fantasie "The Tears of Orpheus" (Luigi Rossi)
9. Current ex g / BMOL

61g Suitensätze 1658
Jacques Belleville: The Testament
David Pohle: Suite

61h Opening - Ballett - German 17. Jahrhundert
1. Opening von Dumanoir
2. Ballett of inconstans (Guédron?)
3. German (Dumanoir)

61I Ballet - Suite 17. Jahrhundert
1. Georg Christoph Strattner: Balletti di Cavallo
2. SCM Suite 4v

61k1 Suiten - 1658 Suitensätze
1. Current News
2. Verdier: German
3. German ex C fa ut

61k2 Ballet 17th Century (Upper Rhine?)

61k3 Ballet de Chantilly (10 pieces) 1658

61k4 Ballet 17th
first century Ballet du Stockholm
second Ballet à 4 3 to Stockholm
Swedish Ballet (16 pieces)

61k5 suites 17th
first century Nouveaux Petits Branles
second Suite rates
third Brandle! Simple
4th Suite a 4

61k6 sonatas (Vienna? Before 1654)
first Bertali: "A thousand gulden"
second Sonata (Walther?)
third Georg nuubs: (? Walter Rowe) Sonata

61l1 lute / viol pieces
Other pieces by Dennis Gaultier / Pinel / Jenkins / Young

61l2 fragments
first Suite 2 for viola da gamba (Tiel)
Suite for viola da gamba (Macquart)
third Pieces for harpsichord suites
first

61m Suite
second Allemande
third Suite


by chance I found this annex:

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

4 ° Ms. mus. 148 a-f

"Eight bundles of" Kassel 17th Century

Suite du ballet
first Ouverture
second -
third Entrée
4th Entrée of the fifth Nymphes
Les Deux Satyres
6th Les 7 Planetes
7th Les 4 Saisons
8th Entrée de Phaeton
9th Entrée
10th Entrée de Neptune
11th -
12th Grand Ballet
13th -

[my presumption in a ballet by Lully or Cambefort, the stylistic point of view, which must be incurred before 1659, the overture still has no fugal second part]


8 ° Mus. (Lange 3; Israël 8.3)

Charles Tessier: Airs et Villanelle Paris 1604




The importance of this document with each page I was again clear.
addition to the "Upsala collection" is the only one!! Source of queen-orchestral music of the years 1650 - 1660
something like this has not even the Bibliotheque National de Paris and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. In France, the copies well known, and Hugo Reyne and Jordi Savall have already listed and recorded music from this collection on CD.
[Guillaume Duma Noir - Suites d'Orchestre]
The queen movie "Marquise, the role of her life" with Sophie Marceau was not a little from this collection included in the score. The beautiful Sarabande, which was to some extent the theme music is as original manuscript in Kassel.

Why is this collection so fundamentally important?
During this time formatted just the modern orchestra, in a sense, these works are the source repertoire for the modern European orchestra!

A unique and musicology invaluable collection of suites, orchestral works and dances.

Most suites are dated with the year 1658, the latest from 1668.
Moreover, it is also next to the collection in Stockholm, the only source for the music of Guillaume Duma Noirs (1615 - 1697) had held a post as head of the famous 24 Violons du Roi, one of the most important musical positions at the court of Louis XIV.
also appear to have as Mignot de la Voye, Michel Mazuel (a cousin of Molière) Adrien de la Croix, Adam Drese, Estienne Nau, Jacques Brulard, Luigi Rossi and many unsigned compositions. (If yes see the collection of all the details)



D och Manuscrit this is only a tiny fraction of that.
There are still lute tablature by Denis Gaultier and a few other again.
viol pieces without end, motets, psalm settings, fairs etc.

I treasure found treasure, but the names were here appeared in the manuscript collection at me for a surprise coming out
are here only Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Antonio Bertali called (it is even represented with his famous Sonata "thousand gulden!)


But that was only a small part of the Verzeichnins of the manuscripts.

The directory of the original prints from the 16th, 17. and 18 Century is now several times larger. has
Moritz of Hesse pretty much collected everything that had existed in his time of great music:

There are not only countless works of Palestrina and Lassus in the stock, the Gabrieli are represented, Heinrich Schütz en mass, Monteverdi's madrigal books, note "Banchetto Musicale" and his "Israel's brook," other works of Vierdanck, Scheidt, etc. a huge collection of first class music of his time, these works are still regarded as masterpieces of the era.
And this describes only the directory band of printed scores to 1650!


(Claudio Monteverdi)



N f course I'm trying to figure out how special the Act 61 came to Kassel.
It was not unusual for the German courts in the 17 Century French music and musicians shopped.
But here in Kassel this seemed a particularly tragic history zuhängen together:

The collection came at least from the time of the Landgrave Wilhelm VI. of Hesse - Kassel
(1629 -1663). Or rather, his son, who was only 20 years old ...

Wilhelm VI. of Hesse - Kassel


Politically and historically it has hardly any meaning - a footnote.
But his contributions at the cultural level is not to be underestimated.

He took care of new schools and seems to have been one of the first in Germany, the queen musicians brought to his court.
His son William VII made a gentleman's tour as it was for those days noblemen good form. He visited Paris and of course the resulting Versailles, but died unexpectedly in the queen's capital in 1670.

My guess is that he bought the manuscripts, and sent to Kassel.
The music queen at court, he has experienced for sure - maybe even this Plants.
are any event, it all works out in the heyday of the case "Ballet de Cour" before Lully occurs as a dominant person in appearance.
And these works have an amazing musical quality!

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