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Valerius Otto - Prague Dances 1611 - Antiquarius Consort Praga
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Recorded: May 1998, Sv. Michal, V Jirchářich, Praha | Released: 1990 | Label: Arta F1 0088 | TT: 54:32
Antiquarius Consort Praga - Václav Návrat

The musician and composer Valerius Otto [1579-c. 1612] was born … in Leipzig to a family of a teacher employed at the local church of St Thomas. All we know about his life is gleaned from a few period sources. … In the spring of 1609 Otto received an "author's" fee from the Leipzig town council for a composition he had written for them. He doubtless began composing before this time, however. As a musician he entered the services of Georg Ludwig von Leuchtenberg. In the introduction to his printed collection Newe Paduanen, Galliarden, Intraden und Currenten, Nach Englischer und Frantzösischer Art, the only surviving and complete collection of his works containing a total of 62 compositions for five voices, published in Leipzig in 1611, Valerius Otto introduces himself as an "organist in the Prague Old Town, at the Church of Our Lady before Tyn". (CD-booklet)