Originally recorded in 1988 and 1992 by German audiophile historical-performance label MDG, this double-CD set contains music by a composer that will still be unfamiliar even to most fans of music from the middle of the eighteenth century. Johann Gottfried Müthel was one of J.S. Bach's last students, working with the master in the year of his death, 1750. Bach might have rolled over in his grave had he gotten vibrations of Müthel's attitudes toward composing: Müthel was a proto-Romantic who believed in composing only when ...
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Originally recorded in 1988 and 1992 by German audiophile historical-performance label MDG, this double-CD set contains music by a composer that will still be unfamiliar even to most fans of music from the middle of the eighteenth century. Johann Gottfried Müthel was one of J.S. Bach's last students, working with the master in the year of his death, 1750. Bach might have rolled over in his grave had he gotten vibrations of Müthel's attitudes toward composing: Müthel was a proto-Romantic who believed in composing only when he was in the "appropriate frame of mind." And he stuck to that position, producing an irregular oeuvre that mostly focused on the keyboard and chamber genres represented here. Müthel traveled around northern Germany in search of a suitable position and soaked up various influences that show up in the music here: the simplicity of Polish dance music he probably inherited from Telemann, the virtuoso flute writing from Quantz and the Italian school, and above all the spirit of free...
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