{"product_id":"825861","title":"Steinbergerhummelwilson - Kraus - Complete German Songs [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Martin Kraus (1756–1792)  Complete German Songs  A contemporary of Mozart, born in the same year and dying in  1792, a year after Mozart's death, Joseph Martin Kraus was born in Miltenberg  am Main, had his first musical training at Buchen im Odenwald, where he was a pupil  at the Latin School, and from 1768 to 1773 continued his education as a scholar  at the Jesuit High School in Mannheim, seat of the Elector Palatine until 1778.  Mannheim had a distinguished place in the  musical world of the time, its orchestra once described by Charles Burney as an  'army of generals', until 1778, when the Elector and most of his musicians  moved to Munich.  Kraus, however, benefited from instruction by leading members of the court  musical establishment, then at the height of its fame, and from singing in the  church and the theatre. From 1773 to 1775 he studied at the universities of Mainz, then of Erfurt,  after which his education was interrupted by a libel case brought against his  father, who had served as town clerk in Mainz.  Kraus returned for a year or so to Buchen, using the period to develop his musical  interests, in particular in a series of church compositions. In November 1777  he renewed his studies, now at Göttingen. It was this last that brought another  strong literary influence to his work. In 1773 he had published in Mainz his Versuch von  Schäfersgedichte (Pastoral Poems), and his oratorio Der Tod Jesu (The  Death of Jesus) of 1776 had been composed to his own text. In Göttingen he met  members of the Göttinger Hainbund, a group of students and their friends  under the literary influence of Klopstock and who were opposed to the formal  conventions epitomized by Wieland. The group had come into being in September  1772 during the course of a moonlit walk through the woods, when those present,  who included Hölty and Johann Heinrich Voss, who gave the group its name,  joined hands to dance round an oak-tree. The name the league assumed derived  from this event, which took place in a woodland grove (Hain) and from  Klopstock's poem 'Der Hügel und der  Hain'(The Hill and the Grove). Kraus became involved with this  literary circle, dedicated to the poetic celebration of Nature, friendship and  love, as it was nearing its end, although the influence of some of its members,  notably Voss and Hölty, continued. In 1778 Kraus wrote his treatise Etwas  von und über Musik fürs Jahr 1777 (Something of and about Music for the  Year 1777), which remains of interest for its critical assessment of Anton Schweitzer's  opera Alceste (Naxos 8.555925-26), a collaboration  between Schweitzer and Wieland.In 1778 Kraus was persuaded by a Swedish fellow-student to  go with him to Stockholm  to see what opportunities might lie there. By 1781 he had begun to make a name  for himself with appointment as assistant Kapellmästare in the court  musical establishment and opera. 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