The Coviello Classics Hybrid Multichannel CD release Cabinetmusik for Carl Theodor (1724-1799) will prove truly mysterious to even the most expert listeners at first glance. Perhaps "Carl Theodor Dreyer" is the intended dedicatee. No -- look at the years. Perhaps the vintage oil landscape or the list of composers in tiny print that rides precipitously along an artificial dividing line in the lower mid cover might give it away; nonetheless, it took some researching to figure out. "Carl Theodor" signifies Prince-Elector Carl ...
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The Coviello Classics Hybrid Multichannel CD release Cabinetmusik for Carl Theodor (1724-1799) will prove truly mysterious to even the most expert listeners at first glance. Perhaps "Carl Theodor Dreyer" is the intended dedicatee. No -- look at the years. Perhaps the vintage oil landscape or the list of composers in tiny print that rides precipitously along an artificial dividing line in the lower mid cover might give it away; nonetheless, it took some researching to figure out. "Carl Theodor" signifies Prince-Elector Carl Theodor of Mannheim, and this is a collection of chamber music by the so-called "Mannheim School," a group of composers connected to the Mannheim court orchestra. From 1740, when Johann Stamitz assumed leadership of the Mannheim orchestra, to 1777, when the Prince himself was forced to move to Munich and had to break up the band, the city of Mannheim enjoyed its own musical renaissance that Leopold Mozart likened to "rays like the sun's spread throughout all Germany, indeed all of...
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