Josef Anton Sehling (1710-1756) - In natali Domini
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Composer: Josef Anton Sehling (1710-1756)
Work: In natali Domini
Performers: Thurgauer Kammerchor und Barockensemble; Raimund Rüegge (conductor)
Painting: Anton Kern (1709-1747) - Die Anbetung der Könige (c.1730)
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Drawing: Federico Barocci (1535-1612) - Aanbidding der koningen
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Further info: https://www.muziekweb.nl/en/Link/DBX1169/Geistliche-Chormusik-der-B%C3%B6hmischen-Klassik
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Josef Antonín Sehling [Seling, Seeling, Söling]
(Toužim, nr Karlovy Vary, 7 January 1710 - Prague, 19 September 1756)
Bohemian composer. After studying music in Prague and Vienna, he was appointed choirmaster of two Prague monastic churches, as well as court musician and composer of Count Morzin. He was also active as second violinist to the metropolitan Prague Cathedral from 11 January 1737. He did not succeed in gaining either the post of choirmaster (in March 1737) or that of a first violinist there (1739), but he assisted the choirmaster Jan František Novák during the latter’s illness. In 1743 his music to the drama Judith was performed by the Prague Jesuits on the coronation of Maria Theresa as Queen of Bohemia. In Sehling’s music collection, which formed a large part of the metropolitan chapter music library (591 items, now in CZ-Pak), sacred works of retrospective (Venetian and Viennese) and modern (Neapolitan) style are equally represented. His own output stands between the late Baroque and pre-Classical styles. His apparently earlier compositions are close in style to the sacred music of Caldara, while in other works a Neapolitan continuo-homophony predominates. The instrumental parts, especially violins, gradually assume a more important role, while the vocal parts are subordinate and rather static. His Christmas motets, pastoral masses and pastorellas are among the most important specimens of the genre in Bohemia before F.X. Brixi. His brother František Sehling (1715-1774) was a tenor and instrumentalist; he sang at Prague Cathedral from 1743, and acted as deputy when Josef Antonín was absent. #ClassicalMusic