Auf Schatzsuche in Venedig- und fündig geworden

Venice – Austria: When the Sound of St. Mark's Came Over the Alps

The concert “Venice – Austria”
brings this musical connection to life. The program focuses on composers who encountered the new musical language in Venice and brought it to Austrian churches.
A central figure is Anton Blasius Amon (c. 1558–1590). Trained as a choirboy at the Innsbruck Court Chapel, Amon spent several years in Venice between 1574 and 1577. The impressions he gained there had a lasting influence on his work. Above all, he brought the Venetian practice of double choirs back to his homeland, thereby becoming an important bridge between Italian and Austrian church music.
Christoph Sätzl (1592–1655) also epitomizes this development. As a Kapellmeister in Brixen and later in Hall in Tirol, he combined Italian musical innovations with local tradition. His works impressively demonstrate how the influences of Venice gave rise to a distinctively Austrian musical language.
Particularly appealing: Many of the works featured in the concert are virtually unknown today. Numerous compositions by Sätzl have never been published—or only rarely—and have thus disappeared from concert programs over the centuries. Some of these musical treasures are now set to be performed in public for the first time in centuries.