Musical Patronage at Imperial Abbeys

Past Concerts, Schedule

The music archive at Kremsmünster Abbey, one of the most valuable collections of baroque sacred music in the world.

Musica Transalpina is thrilled to present a program of sacred music from monastic sources on Saturday July 12 in Pasadena and Sunday July 13 in Newport Beach.

While royal courts were the first to import baroque liturgical music from Italy, it was the vast network of religious orders that disseminated this magnificent repertoire north of the Alps following the Council of Trent.  The imperial abbey system not only helped spread the latest musical styles, they acquired copies of the music being composed for the Hofkapelle, thus preserving these works which would have otherwise been lost forever.  
 
The music from these monastic sources is of incalculable historical value, but almost none of it has been heard in the United States.  Musica Transalpina is proud to present the American concert première of almost every work on this program, which we have sourced out of monastic archives and are bringing to life for two concerts only: Saturday July 12 at 7:30 P. M. in Pasadena and Sunday July 13 at 4 P. M. in Newport Beach.

Program

Blasius Ammon, O. F. M.: Introit for a Confessor Pontiff: Statuit ei.  

Published at Vienna in 1582; also found in a choirbook belonging to the Cappuchin Monastery at Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz copied in 1597.

Joseph Balthasar Hochreither: Missa Jubilus sacer

Composed in 1731, presumably for Lambach Abbey

Romanus Weichlein, O. S. B.: Sonata prima from Encænia Musices

Published at Innsbruck in 1695.

Mathias Sigismund Biechteler: Justus ut palma

Manuscript from Salzburg Cathedral circa 1737.

Gregor Aichinger: Ecce sacerdos magnus

Quercus dudonæa, Augsburg: 1609.

Adalbert Grunde, O. S. B.: Ingredemini omnes 
Manuscript from Kremsmünster Abbey dated 1637.

Personnel

Clarino primo: Dr. Kris Kwapis

Clarino secondo: Cody Beard

Tromba 1: Mike Davis
Tromba 2: Dr. Angela Romero

Timpani: Jamie Strowhiro

Trombone 1: Spencer Schaffer

Trombone 2: Brad Close

Trombone 3: Noah Gladstone

Violino 1: Jolianne Einem

Violino 2: Anna Washburn

Violoncello: Eric Tinkerhess

Canto: Andrea Zomorodian & Maura Tuffy

Alto: Doug Dodson & Anselm Decker
Tenore: Dr. R. Matthew Brown & Luc Kleiner

Basso: Chung Uk Lee & Brett McDermid

Organo: Sean Maxwell

Fagotto: Dr. Jonathan Stehney
Violone: Gabriel Golden
Chitarrone: Robert Wang

Arpa tripla: Mana Tinkerhess

Maestro di capella: Bryan Roach

This program is offered in loving memory of Dr. Burton L. Karson.