Johann Valentin Rathgeber (1682-1750) - Missa Sanctorum Apostolorum (1738)

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Composer: Johann Valentin Rathgeber (1682-1750)
Work: Missa Sanctorum Apostolorum (1738)
Performers: Kammerchor des Hаns Sаchs-Chores Nürnbеrg; Fränkischеs Kammerorchester Nürnbеrg; WoIfgаng RiеdеIbаuch

Missa Sanctorum Apostolorum, Opus XIX (1738)
01 Kyrie 0:00
02 Gloria 4:25
03 Concerto, Allegro-Adagio-Allegro 12:29
04 Credo 16:38
05 Sanctus 23:55
06 Benedictus 25:30
07 Agnus dei 28:12

Drawing: Daniel Marot (1661-1752) - Design for a Ceiling (c.1712)

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Johann Valentin Rathgeber
(Oberelsbach, 3 April 1682 - Banz, 2 June 1750)

German composer. He received his earliest musical education from his father, who held the combined posts of village organist and schoolmaster. In 1701 he entered the University of Würzburg to study theology, and in 1704 became a schoolmaster and organist at the Juliusspital in Würzburg. He went to the Benedictine abbey of Banz early in 1707 as chamber musician and servant to the abbot, and by the end of the year had become a novice. In 1711 he was ordained, and about the same time was appointed choirmaster at Banz, a post which he held, with one interruption, for the rest of his life. In 1721 the Augsburg firm of Lotter issued the first of his many publications, a volume of masses. Eight years later, when he had established a considerable reputation as a composer of church music, he sought permission to leave Banz for a European tour; he was refused and left without it. He visited Würzburg, Augsburg, Bonn, Cologne, Trier and Benedictine houses in Swabia and around Lake Constance. One of his reasons for making this tour seems to have been to gather information about performance conditions and liturgical customs in the Catholic areas of Germany; in the preface to his op.9 Vespers he said that he had added settings of the Compline psalms as, though sung Compline was not customary in his part of Germany, it was more common in the Rhineland and he had been asked to provide music for it. He also turned his attention to secular vocal music. The first two volumes of the Ohren-vergnügendes und Gemüth-ergötzendes Tafel-Confect, a collection of popular songs which he edited and arranged, were published by Lotter in 1733 and 1737 respectively. Although he was reinstated as choirmaster after his return to Banz and readmission to the community, Rathgeber produced no more church music after 1739. He continued to work on the Tafel-Confect, whose last volume appeared in 1746, and in 1743 his last original composition was published, a set of short and simple keyboard pieces. He died in 1750 after a long illness.