Rupert Ignaz Mayr
Rupert Ignaz Mayr ( * 1646 in Schärding / Inn, † February 7, 1712 in Freising ) was a German violinist, composer and Kapellmeister.
Life and work
Rupert Ignaz Mayr (now Upper Austria ) was born 1646 in Schärding am Inn. Little is known about his youth and his musical education, he probably should have gotten lessons at the nearby Passau. 1678 he is a violinist of the Episcopal Chapel in Eichstätt and partly also in Regensburg, 1683-1685 at the bishop's court in Passau and from 1685 at the electoral court orchestra at Maximilian II Emanuel in Munich. The Elector sent him to further studies to Paris to Jean -Baptiste Lully. From 1706 he was Kapellmeister at episcopal Johann Franz Eckher of Kapfing and Liechteneck in Freising, where he died on 7 February 1712.
According to its mission fields as a violinist and Hofkapellmeister Mayr has created preferably church music and instrumental works. We are especially famous seven orchestra suites " Pythagorean Schmid - Fuencklein " of 1692, with whom he alludes to the legend of Pythagoras in the smithy on the discovery of the number ratios of musical intervals. He has also for some school dramas (see also Jesuit theater ) music delivered as from some traditional documents can be seen. Similar to Georg Muffat, who was also a pupil of Lully, and Johann Philipp Krieger he combines French, Italian and German elements to a high baroque musical language.
Works
- SACRI CONCENTUS Psalmorum, antiphonarum, piarum Cantionum ex voce sola et diversis instrumentis, op.3, Regensburg 1681st
- Wistful mourning poem about the decease ... Marquardi II bishop to Eichstädt 1685.
- Pythagorean Schmid - Fuencklein Consisting In unterschidlichen arias Sonatinas overtures allemandes courantes Gavotten Sarabandes Giquen Menueten & c. To use with 4 instruments and beygefuegten General -Bass, Bey panel Musicken comedies serenatas and other peacefull Zusammenkunfften, Augsburg 1692nd
- GAZOPHYLACIUM MUSICO - SACRUM refertum Vigintiquinque Offertoriis Dominicalibus seu Motettis de omni tempore à 4 & 5 Vocibus Concert. 2 Violinibus necess. 3 Trombonis vel Violis, ad lib. Concert. 4.Ripienis per pleno Choro duplici & Basso Continuo, Augsburg 1702
- Psalmodia BREVIS AD vesperas Totius ANNI à 4 Vocibus Concertantibus, 2 Violinis Necessarijs, 3, Violis vel Trombonis, ET 4 Ripienis ad libitum per pleno Choro, Cum Duplici Basso Continuo, Augsburg 1706.
School dramas
- Perfidia Sibimet knight is fuller Tragoedia Ludis autumnalibus in Scenam data; Presented ... From youth concerning Chur Princely Gymnasij Soc. Jesus to Munich. The second VND 5 autumn month, Anno 1701.
- Thesaurus absconditus, quaesitus, repertus Sive, S. Nonnosus Ord S. St. Benedict abbas Soractensis cathed. Ecclesiae Frising. patronus sub ... regimine ... episcopi frisingensis Joannis Francisci ... anno superiori e longis sepulchri tenebris in lucem, ac modo in scenam productus a musis Frisingensibus anno 1709. 3rd Septemb.
- Felix eustachian Infelicitas ... a Mushi Benedictinis Frisingensibus per Distributione Proemiorum In Scenam Producta The 3rd & 5th Septembris MDCCX; [ Perioche, Freising, 1710. ]
Sound recordings
- Rupert Ignaz Mayr: Vespers. With works from Psalmodia brevis and Sacri CONTENTUS. Mechthild Bach ( soprano), Doroethée Zimmermann ( alto), Hans Jörg Mammel (tenor ), Stephan Schreckenberger ( bass); Capella Weilburgensis vocal, L' arpa festante, Doris hail. Triptych, 2003.
- Rupert Ignaz Mayr: " Confitebor tibi. " Psalms - Motet - Concerti. Mechthild Bach ( soprano), Elisabeth Popien ( alto), Hans Jörg Mammel, Gotthold Schwarz; Capella Weilburgensis vocal, L' arpa festante, Doris hail. Profile, 2006.