Requiem No. 8 in C Major: Introitus: Kyrie eleison
Johann Ernst Eberlin (27 March 1702 – 19 June 1762) was a German composer a… Read Full Bio ↴Johann Ernst Eberlin (27 March 1702 – 19 June 1762) was a German composer and organist whose works bridge the baroque and classical eras. He was a prolific composer, chiefly of church organ and choral music. Marpurg claims he wrote as much and as rapidly as Alessandro Scarlatti and Georg Philipp Telemann, a claim also repeated by Leopold Mozart - though ultimately Eberlin did not live nearly as long as either of those two composers.
Eberlin's first musical training began in 1712 at the Jesuit Gymnasium of St. Salvator in Augsburg. His teachers there were Georg Egger and Balthasar Siberer, who taught him how to play the organ. He began his university education in 1721 at the Benedictine University in Salzburg where he studied law, but from 1723 turned to music.
His first breakthrough was in 1727 when he became the organist for Count Leopold von Firmian (then Archbishop of Salzburg). He reached the peak of his career when he was the organist for Archbishop Andreas Jakob von Dietrichstein. By 1749 he held the posts of Hof- und Domkapellmeister (Court and Cathedral chapel master) simultaneously, an achievement which his successors Michael Haydn, Leopold Mozart, and Mozart himself were not to match. Despite Leopold Mozart's great opinion of Eberlin, and having sent his son some of Eberlin's best-known works, his keyboard pieces, the young Mozart later tired of them, writing in a letter of April 20, 1782 that Eberlin's works were "far too trivial to deserve a place beside Handel and Bach."
Nevertheless, in general, Eberlin was greatly respected while he lived, composing industriously and playing at church concerts. After his death, though, his strict choral pieces in the stile antico faded from popularity and only his keyboard works were (to a limited extent) remembered.
His contemporaries included Anton Cajetan Adlgasser.
Eberlin's first musical training began in 1712 at the Jesuit Gymnasium of St. Salvator in Augsburg. His teachers there were Georg Egger and Balthasar Siberer, who taught him how to play the organ. He began his university education in 1721 at the Benedictine University in Salzburg where he studied law, but from 1723 turned to music.
His first breakthrough was in 1727 when he became the organist for Count Leopold von Firmian (then Archbishop of Salzburg). He reached the peak of his career when he was the organist for Archbishop Andreas Jakob von Dietrichstein. By 1749 he held the posts of Hof- und Domkapellmeister (Court and Cathedral chapel master) simultaneously, an achievement which his successors Michael Haydn, Leopold Mozart, and Mozart himself were not to match. Despite Leopold Mozart's great opinion of Eberlin, and having sent his son some of Eberlin's best-known works, his keyboard pieces, the young Mozart later tired of them, writing in a letter of April 20, 1782 that Eberlin's works were "far too trivial to deserve a place beside Handel and Bach."
Nevertheless, in general, Eberlin was greatly respected while he lived, composing industriously and playing at church concerts. After his death, though, his strict choral pieces in the stile antico faded from popularity and only his keyboard works were (to a limited extent) remembered.
His contemporaries included Anton Cajetan Adlgasser.
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Requiem No. 8 in C Major: Introitus: Kyrie eleison
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Paul West
Johann Eberlin has it all. This is truly superb music
Ferrariman601
Georg Aloys Schmitt used the Lacrimosa from this piece in his completion of Mozart’s C Minor Mass (K. 427).
canticus
Yes, he did...The old "Köchel" contended it as "Anhang 21: Chorskizze zu einem Requiem" as a early scetch from Mozart...Sadly, that it was not...In 1953 Karl Pfannhauser found out the right Componist..So the beautiful "Schmitt-Crucifixus" of the Great Mass in C-minor from Mozart cannot be performed with the Name of Mozart... Very deplorable....
David Gleba
Splendid!
Сергій Ярунський
Очень одарённый Мастер с экстраординарной биографией)))
Вот только аудио трек к видео надо было бы отредактировать, а то он "резанный" какой-то.
1401JSC
Sounds like Michael Haydn.
I like this tenor soloist.
Jean-Pierre Demers
merci beaucoup