The inventories of the Innsbruck court music provide information about the rich stock of music that was once available here. It can be concluded from these music inventories that madrigals enjoyed extraordinary popularity at court. The composers working in Innsbruck were also concerned with this genre, in which the polyphonic vocal art reached a peak of refinement.
Jakob Regnart, who first held the office of vice kapellmeister in Innsbruck and worked as court kapellmeister from 1585, is better known today as a composer of German social songs. In this concert, his madrigals and canzonettas are performed in the intimate ambience of the Silver Chapel with the participation of the Italian Renaissance organ, an ideally suited chamber instrument: instruments of this kind were available in the princely chambers of the Innsbruck Hofburg.
BONUS: 5.30 p.m. pre-concert, programme and participants to be announced.
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