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Jan Dismas Zelenka - 6 Sonate a due Hautbois et Basson
Dombrecht, Ponseele, Banchini, Ebbinge, Bond, Meer, Kohnen
EAC+LOG+CUE | WV: 559 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Accent # ACC30048 | Country/Year: Europe 2004, 1988
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque

An innovative Baroque composer whose reputation was steadily on the rise during the anything-goes years of the waning twentieth century, Jan Dismas Zelenka was born in Lounovice, Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic). He was a court musician in Dresden for most of his career, and both J.S. Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann knew and admired his music. Except for brief periods of travel, during which he refined his craft (he took lessons from Fux and Lotti even after his own technique had been perfected), he served as a double bass player in the court orchestra and later aided the ailing court music director Heinichen in his duties…

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