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Musica Sacromontana: Zeidler - Litany in C; Hoffmeister - Sinfonia in C | Dux DUX2076

Musica Sacromontana: Zeidler - Litany in C; Hoffmeister - Sinfonia in C

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Cat No: DUX2076

Barcode: 5902547020761

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 31st January 2025

Contents

Artists

Camerata Silesia Katowice City Singers’ Ensemble
Aukso - Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy

Conductor

Marek Mos

Works

Hoffmeister, Franz Anton

Symphony in C major

Zeidler, Jozef

Litany in C major 'To the Mother of God'

Artists

Camerata Silesia Katowice City Singers’ Ensemble
Aukso - Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy

Conductor

Marek Mos

About

Zeidler's Litany in C major to the Mother of God, one of 12 litanies in his output, seems to be representative of the composer's mature period. Such an assumption inevitably comes to mind when comparing it with Zeidler's two masses in D major, in copies dating from 1769, which are preserved at the Staatsbibliothek in Munich. These are Zeidler's earliest known works, most probably written for the Cistercian monastery in Obra, western Poland, before the composer's arrival in Gostyń. In them, the young composer clearly wished to demonstrate his knowledge of advanced musical language, as evidenced by the excessive ornamentation of vocal lines and the use of complicated counterpoint.

The Litany in C contains no features of this kind. What we find here is a simplicity typical of Classical aesthetics, which has all the hallmarks of the composer's conscious artistry. A sense of naturalness (inherited from Rococo art), structural clarity, symmetry, and the repetition of phrases enhances the impression of inner order. The work is also notable for a meticulously planned dramaturgy of its expanded cantata form. Zeidler is trying to diversify and enhance its inner drama, almost in spite of the character of the Litany of Loreto text, which is explicitly panegyrical in its adoration of the supernatural virtues of the Holy Virgin Mary. He gives prominence to the work's outer sections (Kyrie and Agnus Dei), which refer to the Holy Trinity, while dividing the long text of the litany addressing the Holy Virgin into four shorter fragments. This allows the composer to change the performance forces, key, tempo, and the type of motivic patterns, and, in the final account, the overall expressive character of the music.

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