Heinichen: Selected Music for Vespers

Series: Baroque Era  Publisher: A-R Editions
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Johann David Heinichen
Selected Music for Vespers

Edited by Margaret Williams

B161 Heinichen: Selected Music for Vespers
978-0-89579-674-5 Full Score (2010) 9x12, xv + 352 pp.
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Johann David Heinichen (1683–1729) is known today principally as the author of the great 1728 treatise Der General-Baß in der Composition, a comprehensive discussion of the practice of continuo realization and of its place in the art of composition. But Heinichen also occupied one of the most prestigious musical posts in Europe, that of kapellmeister to the Royal and Electoral court in Dresden. This volume contains a selection of the music he composed for the office of Vespers in the court church during the 1720s. Second only to the Mass in importance in Catholic liturgy, the different components of the Vespers service—the psalms, Marian antiphons, hymns, and Magnificat—afforded composers great opportunity for a variety of dramatic expression, an opportunity that Heinichen fully exploited. Heinichen’s settings use a mixture of chorus and vocal solos and are all with instrumental accompaniment.
Psalms
Beatus vir
Confitebor tibi Domine
Dixit Dominus
In exitu Israel
 1. In exitu Israel
 2. Non nobis Domine
 3. Simulacra gentium
 4. Domus Israel
 5. Gloria
Laetatus sum
Lauda Jerusalem
Laudate pueri
Nisi Dominus
 
Magnificats
Magnificat in G
 1. Magnificat
2. Quia respexit
3. Fecit potentiam
4. Suscepit Israel
5. Gloria
6. Sicut erat in principio
Magnificat in B-flat
1. Magnificat
2. Quia respexit
3. Fecit potentiam
4. Suscepit Israel
5. Gloria
 
Hymns
Ave maris stella
Jesu Redemptor omnium
 
Marian Antiphons
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Ave Regina
 1. Ave Regina
2. Gaude Virgo gloriosa
3. Vale
Regina caeli in G
1. Regina caeli
2. Quia quem meruisti
3. Ora pro nobis
4. Alleluia
Regina caeli in D
1. Regina caeli
2. Quia quem meruisti
3. Resurrexit sicut dixit
4. Ora pro nobis
5. Alleluia