Georg Muffat (baptized June 1, 1653 - February 23, 1704) was a Baroque composer. June 1 is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events February 2 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated. ... February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events Building of the Students Monument in Aiud, Romania. ... Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750 (see Dates of classical music eras for a discussion of the problems inherent in defining the beginning and end points). ... A composer is a person who writes music. ...

Life

He was born in Megeve, Savoy, (now in France), and of Scottish descent. He studied in Paris with Jean Baptiste Lully between 1663 and 1669, then became an organist in Molsheim and Sélestat. Later, he studied law in Ingolstadt, afterwards settling in Vienna. He could not get an official appointment, so he travelled to Prague in 1677, then to Salzburg, where he worked for the archbishop for some ten years. Megève is a commune of the Haute-Savoie département in France. ... Flag of Savoy This article is about the historical region of Savoy. ... This article is about the country. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) The Eiffel Tower in Paris, as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Jean-Baptiste Lully, originally Giovanni Battista Lulli (November 28, 1632–March 22, 1687), was an Italian-born French composer, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Sélestat (German: Schlettstadt) is a commune of northeastern France, in the Bas-Rhin département, of which it is a sous-préfecture. ... Ingolstadt (Austro-Bavarian: InglstÃ¥dt) is a city in the Free State of Bavaria, Germany. ... “Wien” redirects here. ... Nickname: Motto: Praga Caput Rei publicae Location within the Czech Republic Coordinates: , Country Czech Republic Region Capital City of Prague Founded 9th century Government  - Mayor Pavel Bém Area  - City 496 km²  (191. ...   (Austro-Bavarian: SÃ¥izburg) is the fourth-largest city in Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg. ... The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state of the Holy Roman Empire, consisting of roughly of the present-day state of Salzburg in Austria. ...

About 1680, he traveled to Italy, there studying the organ with Bernardo Pasquini, a follower of the tradition of Girolamo Frescobaldi; he also met Arcangelo Corelli, whose works he admired very much. From 1690 to his death, he was Kapellmeister to the bishop of Passau, a Bavarian town, where he died. Bernardo Pasquini Bernardo Pasquini (December 7, 1637 - November 22, 1710), was an Italian composer of opera and church music. ... Girolamo Frescobaldi. ... Arcangelo Corelli (February 17, 1653 – January 8, 1713) was an influential Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music. ... A Kapellmeister is nowadays the director or conductor of an orchestra or choir. ... Passau (Latin: Batavis or Batavia, also Passavium; Italian: Passavia; Czech: Pasov) is a town in Niederbayern, Eastern Bavaria, Germany, known also as the Dreiflüssestadt (City of Three Rivers), because the Danube River is joined there by the Inn River from the South, and the Ilz River coming out of... For other uses, see Bavaria (disambiguation). ...

Works

His works are strongly influenced by both French and Italian composers:

• Sonatas for various instruments (armonico tributo 1682);
• Orchestral suites (florilegium primum & secundum 1695);
• 12 Concerti grossi (auserlesene... instrumental Musik 1701) re-using some thematic material from armonico tributo
• 12 Toccatas for the organ as well as other pieces : passacaglia, chaconne, air with variations (apparatus musico-organisticus 1690);
• some partitas for the harpsichord, kept as a manuscript
• several religious works (notably three masses, Salve Regina, etc.) from which only Missa in labore requies for twenty-four parts is preserved.

Muffat was, as Johann Jakob Froberger before him, and Handel after him, a cosmopolitan composer who played an important role in the exchanges between European musical traditions. His music books contain useful indications on musical practice during his life. Sonata (From Latin and Italian sonare, to sound), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to cantata (Latin cantare, to sing), a piece sung. ... It has been suggested that Suite_de_Danses be merged into this article or section. ... The concerto grosso (plural concerti grossi) (Italian for big concert) was a popular form of baroque music using an ensemble and usually having four to six movements in which the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists (the concertino) and full orchestra (the ripieno). ... Toccata (Italian for to touch) is a Virtuoso piece of classical music for a keyboard instrument or plucked string instrument featuring sections of brilliant passagework, with or without imitative or fugal interludes, generally emphasizing the dexterity of the performer. ... Johann Jakob Froberger (May 18, 1616 – May 7, 1667) was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist. ... HANDEL was the code-name for the UKs National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. ...

He was the father of Gottlieb Muffat. Gottleib Theophil Muffat (1690 - 1770) was a Austrian composer/organist and son of Georg Muffat. ...

Recordings

Armonico Tributo by Les Muffatti (Ramée RAM0502) The ensemble Les Muffatti was created in 1996 in and around the Brussels Conservatory by a group of twelve idealistic musicians who wanted to ensure that the Baroque repertoire for string orchestra was sufficiently addressed in their education. ...

12 Concerti Grossi 1701 Musica Aeterna Bratislava (Naxos Records 8.555096, 8.555743)-1...

External links

• Free scores by Georg Muffat in the Werner Icking Music Archive