[Sheet music] Johann Caspar Seyfert (1697-1767) - Concerto (B-Dur) Oboi conc: Fag: conc:

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Composer: Johann Caspar Seyfert (1697-1767) (Attributed) *
Work: Concerto (B-Dur) Oboi conc: Fag: conc: Viola. e Basso. 6. St:
1. Allegro 0:00
2. Adagio 3:24
3. Allegro 6:09

Software: Sibelius + Instruments samples
World Premiere: Yes
Sheet music (pdf): https://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/d/df/IMSLP82630-PMLP151404-Seyffert_Concerto_Ob_Fg_Score.pdf
Sheet music (xml): https://www.mediafire.com/file/gei8u7hs3b1rtd5/SEYFERT-ConcertoBDur.xml/file
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Johann Caspar Seyfert
(Augsburg?, 1697 - Augsburg, 26 May 1767)

German composer. A pupil of the Augsburg Kantor Philipp David Kräuter, he completed his musical training at various courts, notably with J.G. Pisendel and S.L. Weiss in Dresden. A violinist and lutenist, he became choral director at the church of St Anna in Augsburg in 1723; in 1741 he succeeded Kräuter as Kantor of that church and as director of Protestant music. Apart from his activities as a musician, Seyfert was also an archivist and private secretary. Opinions about him are varied. Whereas a posthumous verdict is that he not only trained good musicians but also composed and performed many fine works, and one of his contemporaries praised his skill on the violin and lute and emphasized that his ‘sacred compositions and oratorios’ had brought him fame, one of his pupils, Mertens, described him as a not even mediocre composer who abided by the rules, composed without taste, fire or gracefulness, and found only little acclaim. The cantata Der Liebhaber des Gelds, des Weins, des Frauenzimmers, found at the beginning of the fourth Tract (attributed to Seyfert) of the Augsburg Tafel-Confect, uses a convivial text written several decades earlier by Erdmann Neumeister and shows Seyfert not as an innovator, but as a follower of J.V. Rathgeber, who was responsible for the first three Tracten.

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Das Manuskript in der SLUB enthält keinen Vornamen des Komponisten Seyffert. Laut Eitners Quellenlexikon nahm man bisher an, dass das vorliegende Doppelkonzert von dem Oboisten Martin Seyfert der Dresdner Hofkapelle stammt. Auch Kai Köpp ist in seiner Dissertation über Pisendel (2005) dieser Ansicht. Das Konzert könnte aber auch von dem Augsburger Komponisten Johann Caspar Seyfert sein, der von 1720 bis 1723 Kompositionsund Violinschüler von Johann Georg Pisendel in Dresden war. Ortrun Landmann sieht in Johann Caspar Seyfert den Schreiber der Stimmen in der SLUB (Über das Erbe der sächsischen Staatskapelle, Dresden 2009), während Werner Jaksch als Schreiber J.G. Morgenstern vermutet (siehe Vorwort zur Edition des Concertos in A von Seyfert, hier bei IMSLP). Morgenstern beginnt seine Tätigkeit vor 1720 in Dresden, sodass er für Abschriften von Kompositionen von Johann Caspar Seyfert in Frage kommt. Da es keinerlei Hinweise auf ein kompositorisches Schaffen von Martin Seyfert gibt außer dem Eintrag bei Eitner, scheint eher Johann Caspar Seyfert der Komponist des Konzerts für Oboe und Fagott zu sein. #ClassicalMusic