Christian Friedrich Witt (1665-1717) - Sonates a piu stromenti (c.1695)

Christian Friedrich Witt (1665-1717) - Sonates a piu stromenti (c.1695)

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Composer: Christian Friedrich Witt (1665-1717)
Work: Sonates a piu stromenti (c.1695)
Performers: Kеntucky Baroque Trumpets

Sonates a piu stromenti (c.1695)
1. Sonata à 10 0:00
2. Sonata à 7 7:40

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Christian Friedrich (Wilhelm) Witt [Witte]
(Altenburg, c.1660 - Gotha, 3 April 1717)

German composer, organist and teacher. Son of the court organist Johann Ernst Witt, he received music lessons from his father. After receiveng a scholarship, he went to Vienna and Salzburg, and then from 1685-1686 he studied composition and counterpoint with Georg Caspar Wecker in Nuremberg. On 1 June 1686 he was appointed chamber organist at the Gotha court. In 1688 he was again sent to study with Wecker. In 1694 he was appointed substitute for the Kapellmeister, Wolfgang Michael Mylius, and he succeeded him after his death, in 1713. He was well thought of as a teacher, not only within the Dukedom of Gotha; the future Duke Friedrich II was among his pupils. He was also admired as an able keyboard player and Kapellmeister. He enjoyed good relations with neighbouring courts, including those of Ansbach-Bayreuth, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Saxe-Weissenfels, and several works by him are listed in inventories from there. He was a versatile composer of both vocal and instrumental music. His vocal music consists largely of church cantatas, among them his 'Psalmodia sacra' praised as one of the most important hymnals of the early 18th Century. His instrumental music includes both ‘ouvertures’ (or suites) in the French style and italianate, concerto-like sonatas, and varied keyboard works, many of them now lost.