This is Geneviève Soly's fourth volume of keyboard partitas by Christoph Graupner on Analekta. Graupner was a friend of Telemann, competed with Bach for the position at the Thomaschüle in Leipzig, and was an inventive composer of opera, sinfonia, and concerti, among many other forms. Graupner spent most of his career in Darmstadt working for the court, which is lucky for us. He had instructed his family to burn his papers at his death, but the palace claimed ownership of his work and won the dispute over intellectual ...
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This is Geneviève Soly's fourth volume of keyboard partitas by Christoph Graupner on Analekta. Graupner was a friend of Telemann, competed with Bach for the position at the Thomaschüle in Leipzig, and was an inventive composer of opera, sinfonia, and concerti, among many other forms. Graupner spent most of his career in Darmstadt working for the court, which is lucky for us. He had instructed his family to burn his papers at his death, but the palace claimed ownership of his work and won the dispute over intellectual property rights, preserving his manuscripts for posterity. The keyboard partitas show the influences of François Couperin and contemporary Italian and German keyboard composers, and are quite appealing, both in structure and sound. He uses unusual dance forms such as the Loure and Sommeille, and keeps the music interesting with modulations between relative keys, frequently using scalar passages to move from one to the next. Although Graupner's style is not as stately as Couperin's, the...
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