Anton Neumann (1721–1776): Oratorium Sancti Joannis Nepomuceni
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Anton Neumann was a Czech composer of the German language working mainly Moravia, Lower Palatinate, Austria and present-day Poland (Brno, Zweibrücken, Kroměříž, Kraków, Vienna, Olomouc) and a violin virtuoso and bandleader whose artistic legacy and significance have not yet been sufficiently discovered and presented. Neumann's compositions are widely distributed in the collections of Central and Western Europe. The Oratorio on John of Nepomuk is currently housed in the Music Archive of the Benedictine monastery of Lambach, where numerous church and secular compositions. Neumann's setting of the German libretto by an unknown author comes from from the 1860s. The composer wrote the work in a style that is now usually ...known as Sturm und Drang. The textual subject matter is very with a richly detailed palette of affects and musical-rhetorical figures. Often these figures fall under the heading of acoustic symbolism. In conjunction with the contrasting and carefully Neumann's work has a very dramatic effect. Modern The work was premiered in 2015 in Olomouc. The presentation presents new information about the life and artistic career of of the composer, using the composition of the Nepomucene Oratorio as an example. commentaries and music samples, the peculiarities of his compositional style are presented. |
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