Schelle / Mauch / Akademie - Christmas Cantatas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In 1677 Johann Schelle became the music director at the Church of St. Thomas in Leipzig, succeeding his teacher Sebastian Knupfer and preceding Johann Kuhnau in this post. His own pupils included important composers like Johann Christoph Graupner, Johann David Heinichen, Reinhard Keiser, Johann Theodor Roemhildt and Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow. Schelle is known to have produced more than 180 compositions, of which unfortunately only 48 have survived. His importance lies mainly in his chorale cantatas and in the combination of Biblical texts and freely written sacred poetry he employed in his more advanced sacred concertos- an early form of what would later become the Lutheran church cantata. The present gathers together Schelle's known compositions for Advent and Christmas. In doing so it also sheds light on the musical role of the St. Thomas Choir in Leipzig's musical culture during the final third of the 17th century. Album Tracks 1. Uns Ist Ein Kind Geboren (Chorsatz) 2. Vom Himmel Kam Der Engel Schar 3. Die Zeit Erfüllet Ward 4. Uns Ist Ein Kind Geboren, Ein Sohn Ist Uns Gegeben 5. Machet Die Tore Weit 6. Ehre Sei Gott in Der Höhe 7. Actus Musicus Auf Weyh-Nachten