Schmelzer - Sonata II

JOHANN HEINRICH SCHMELZER 1623-1680 Sonata II for two violins and basso continuo Performed by the Gabrieli Consort Players Directed by Paul McCreesh Johann Heinrich von Schmelzer was an Austrian composer and violinist of the baroque era.
He worked in Vienna and died in Prague.
Schmelzer attained a high reputation in a field violin playing and violin composition which at the time was dominated by Italians indeed one traveler referred to him in 1660 as nearly the most eminent violinist in all of Europe.
Schmelzers Sonatae unarum fidium of 1664 was the first collection of sonatas for violin and basso continuo to be published by a German-speaking composer.
It contains the brilliant virtuosity sectional structure and lengthy ground-bass variations typical of the mid-baroque violin sonata. Schmelzer was the foremost Austrian composer of instrumental music of his day and had an important influence on the Austrian violinist and composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber 1644-1704 who is believed to have been one of Schmelzers students.

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