Summa This, Summa That
Today, the Matthäus Passion of Gottfried August Homilius. I’m not terribly familiar with him as a composer, so I had to do a bit of hunting to find out more. According to (the ever-reliable) Wikipedia, he was “a German composer, cantor and organist,” “one of the most important church composers of the generation following Bach’s,” and “the main representative of the empfindsamer style.”
Now I need to do some digging on what they’re getting at when they say “the empfindsamer style.” Sturm und Drang, I’ve heard of before. Empfindsamer? Not so much.
Attribution(s): “Gottfroed August Homilius” by Lithographer, Undeciphered” is after an original engraving by C. Sechas (1782) is licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons; “Bells” via Shutterstock.
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