[Sheet music] Johann Michael Breunich (1699-1755) - Sonata di D: Michaele Breünich (c.1745)

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Composer: Johann Michael Breunich (1699-1755)
Work: Sonata di D: Michaele Breünich (c.1745)
Software: Sibelius + Instruments samples
World Premiere: Yes
Sheet music (pdf): https://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/9/9a/IMSLP699990-PMLP1000452-Breurich_Sonata_B-Flat.pdf
Sheet music (xml): https://www.mediafire.com/file/ta8n418rnndzdjf/BREUNICH-SonataBDur.xml/file
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Johann Michael Breunich [Breunig, Brauenig, Bräunich, Breuenich]
(Bürgstadt, 30 March 1699 - Dresden, 27 October 1755)

German composer. By 1727 Breunich was a Jesuit priest and Kapellmeister at Mainz Cathedral. By 1735 he had moved to Bohemia, probably to the Jesuit church in Prague, where an oratorio by him was performed that year. In 1745 he succeeded Zelenka as church composer to the court at Dresden, perhaps as a result of a commission he had executed for some members of the Saxon royal family who had visited Bohemia in 1737. In Dresden Breunich composed mainly church music; he wrote some secular pieces which were performed when the court visited its secondary residence at Warsaw, but could not get them performed in Dresden, where J.A. Hasse had a virtual monopoly in opera and other secular vocal music. Breunich's published masses are more elaborate in style than most of the church music being published by German composers at the time – not unnaturally, as his musical horizons were wider than those of most of his contemporaries in this field. In his preface he expressed a wish to emulate the Italian style, which he did by writing more, and more elaborate, vocal solos, and more independent and idiomatic violin parts, than was usual in published church music of the 1720s; the technical difficulties, however, are not great. A distinctive feature of this publication is the clarino writing: the clarinos play almost continuously in many of the choral movements, and in the fugal movements their parts are often thematically integrated in a way attempted by few other church composers. #ClassicalMusic