In 1640, the court music director of Archduchess Claudia de’ Medici in Innsbruck, the famous Johann Stadlmayr, published a collection of psalms and Magnificat settings for Vespers. This opus was published by Michael Wagner, who had married Johann Gäch’s widow a year earlier and thus taken over his publishing house. The print was considered incomplete until recently, but the missing partbook for violin I / cornett I has since been located in the Marienberg monastery in South Tyrol. The collection from 1640 demonstrates Stadlmayr’s mastery of the latest Italianate concertante church style: The solo voices are joined by violins or cornetts and basso continuo.
In our concert, we present these works in the typical sequence of a vesper service as it might have been performed at the Innsbruck court around 1640. While most of Stadlmayr’s works were dedicated to members of the Tyrolean Habsburgs, whom he had served since 1607, he dedicated this opus to the Spanish ambassador at the Innsbruck court, Don Federico Enriquez, who, according to Stadlmayr’s dedicatory preface, was a great lover of music.
A co-operation with Innsbrucker Abendmusik, Brixner Initiative für Musik und Kirche and LanAntiqua Niederlana.