CD 31/32

Music from Stams Monastery IX

This CD is a particularly unique musical document as it presents exemplary premiere recordings of  the  major  instrumental works of a composer who can justifi ably be called one of the fi rst, if not the fi rst, pioneers of  the  autonomous  concert symphonyunconnectedtoopera or oratorio. Both research and musical practice have passed over this significant fact so far. These two live recordings of  concerts  at  the  Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum are  therefore  an  eminent contribution to fundamental musicological  research.  In his position as the director of music at Mainz – that is, at one of the fi rst German courts – Johann Zach had a decisive infl uence on the new musical style breaking away from that of the Baroque period through the consistently superior works he contributed from 1745 on. This was a precondition for the worldwide importance of the symphonic music of Haydn and Mozart. Zach’s symphonies can be heard in original period sound on CD 5; other works by the important Bohemian composer,  who  deposited his musical bequest in Stams Monastery, are presented on CDs 22, 23, 25, 29, 42, 43.

CD 2, Track 17, 2:59
Partita in D-major
Presto Assai
Johann Zach
(1699-1773)

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