Christoph Förster (1693-1745) - Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe

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Composer: Christoph Förster (1693-1745)
Work: Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe
Performers: Hanna Herfurtner (soprano); Carola Günther (alto); Georg Poplutz (tenor); Raimonds Spogis (bass);
Kölnеr Akademie; Michaеl Alеxander Willеns (conductor)

Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe
1. Choir 0:00
2. Recitative 2:49
3. Aria 4:15
4. Recitative 10:16
5. Choir 11:33

Painting: Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734) e Marco Ricci (1676-1730) - Mosè fa scaturire l'acqua dalla roccia
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Map: Johann Baptist Homann (1663-1724) - Principatus Isenacensis
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(Johann) Christoph (Heinrich) Förster
(Bibra, 30 November 1693 - Rudolstadt, ?5/6 December 1745)

German composer. He began organ studies with local organist Johann Philipp Pitzler, with whom he traveled. In 1710 he met Johann David Heinichen in Weissenfels, who at the time was working as a lawyer. With Heinichen, he took lessons in general bass and also began studying composition. When Heinichen went to Italy, Förster moved to Merseburg where he continued his studies with the Kapellmeister and court organist Georg Friedrich Kaufmann. Later, in 1717 he was employed as a chamber musician in the Sachsen-Merseburg Hofkapelle where he played second violin to Johann Gottlieb Graun, whom he later superseded as Konzertmeister. In 1723, Förster traveled to Prague with his employer for the coronation of Charles VII of Bohemia. In Prague, he made the acquaintance of the Viennese court musicians Fux, Caldara, Conti and Piani and also took part in a performance of Fux's Constanza e Fortezza and performed in a concert as a harpsichord soloist and violinist for a Dutch ambassador. He continued to serve at his post in Merseburg until the Hofkapelle was dissolved in 1738 following the death of the Duke Moritz Wilhelm. At the birthday of Frederick Anton, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt he played as a soloist under the leadership of Kapellmeister Johann Graf. Still without a fixed position, he applied for the position of vice-kapellmeister in Rudolstadt which he received on 3 May 1743 without a fixed salary. He died there two years later in 1745. Throughout his life, Förster maintained numerous contacts with other musicians. Most notably, he is known to have subscribed to two of Telemann's publications of the 1730s; Tafelmusik and the Paris quartets. It was Telemann who published Förster's Sei Duetti, Op. 1 in Paris in 1737. Förster was proficient in the Italian style of composition, which he learned from Heinichen and from his subsequent trips to Leipzig and Dresden (1719), and then Prague (1723). This is evident in his wealth of orchestral and chamber music, much of which was probably composed for performance at the Merseburg court. During his time in Merseburg he was also required to compose Italian cantatas, and purportedly also learned Italian for this purpose. Although there are several Italian cantatas listed in Breitkopf's thematic catalogue, few, if any, of these pieces have survived.