František Xaver Brixi (1732-1771) - Konzert für Orgel und Orchester in F

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Composer: František Xaver Brixi (1732-1771)
Work: Konzert für Orgel und Orchester in F
Performers: Günther Fetz (organ); Camerata Bregenz; Christoph Eberle (leitung)

Engraving: Anoniem - Gezicht op Praag (1735)
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Further info: https://www.muziekweb.nl/Link/BEX0670/Konzerte-f%C3%BCr-Orgel-und-Orchester-Kirchensonaten
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František Xaver Brixi
(Prague, 2 January 1732 - Prague, 14 October 1771)

Bohemian composer and organist. Brixi came from a musical family that had a close relationship to the Benda family. He was the son of composer Simon Brixi (1693-1735) and probably received his earliest education from him. He later attended the Priarist Gymnasium in Kosmonosy, where his teachers include Václav Kalous. After several positions in churches around Prague, he was appointed in 1759 as organist at the St. Vitus Cathedral, a position he held until his early death. Brixi composed mainly sacred music, and his reputation for solid compositions featuring rhythmically active bass lines, a good sense of harmony and form, and instrumentation that was precise and often did much with sparse forces made his works popular, particularly in monastic circles in Bohemia and Bavaria. He is known to have composed around 400 works, including 105 Masses, six litanies, four oratorios, school dramas, at least five concertos for organ, and three symphonies. His sacred music parody, the Luridi scholars, is one of the best parodies of monastic music teaching, while his organ concertos have been widely performed as exemplars for the instrument. He also set sacred texts in Czech, using folk material adroitly. #ClassicalMusic