Concert

Suspiria Mariana

Motets by the South Tyrolean monastic composer
Augustin Grieninger

Until recently, Augustin Grieninger, who came from Margreid on the South Tyrolean Wine Route, was remembered primarily as an original poet and writer; his contemporaries, however, held him in much higher esteem as both a creative and performing musician. Until recently, however, most of his musical output was considered lost. Thanks to new discoveries, for example from former holdings of the Royal Prussian Library in Berlin in Krakow, a more accurate picture of his compositional legacy can now be drawn: Augustin Grieninger, who worked in the Augustinian canonry of Rottenbuch in southern Germany, is one of the most interesting monastic composers of the High Baroque in southern Germany and Austria. His sacred motets testify to a sovereign mastery of compositional craft and musical rhetoric, i.e. the art of speaking in tones, as well as melodic inventiveness and a thorough knowledge of the latest stylistic developments in Italy. The ensemble vita & anima, with international specialists in early music, gives the first comprehensive insight into Grieninger’s sacred music – a real discovery!

7:15 pm: Introductory lecture with Franz Gratl

Melanie Hirsch (soprano)
David Feldman. (countertenor)
Raphael Höhn (tenor)
Felix Schwandtke (bass)
Ensemble vita & anima
Peter Waldner (organ positive and direction)