Six Orchestral Serenades from South Germany and Austria

This edition brings together major works from four substantial repertories of orchestral serenades emanating from musical centers in South Germany and Austria. Part 1 presents works by Munich composers Wolfgang Kirmayr (d. 1795), Augustin Holler (1744–1814), and Joseph Willibald Michl (1745–1816). Part 2 contains serenades by Salzburg composer Joseph Hafeneder (1746–84), Thurn und Taxis (Regensburg) composer Franz Xaver Pokorny (1729–94), and Oettingen-Wallerstein (Swabia) kapellmeister Antonio Rosetti (ca. 1750–92). Each of these works is of a high musical quality and represents distinctive features of its particular repertory, illuminating in different ways how composers in these four musical centers responded to the requirements of writing a serenade. All works contain some degree of concertante orchestration, including a two-movement concerto cycle for solo violin in Hafeneder's serenade. The stylistic breadth ranges from the chamber-music intimacy and galant idiom of Kirmayr to the strongly symphonic style of Pokorny, and the more fully mature classicism of Rosetti.