Johann melchior molter biography

  • Johann Melchior Molter was a German composer and violinist of the late Baroque period.
  • Johann Melchior Molter (10 February 1696 – 12 January 1765) was a German composer and violinist of the late Baroque period.
  • Johann Melchior Molter was a German Baroque composer and violinist.
  • Molter, Johann Melchior

    Molter, Johann Melchior, German composer; b. Tiefenort, near Eisenach, Feb. 10, 1696; d. Karlsruhe, Jan. 12, 1765. As a composer, he was typical of his Saxon contemporaries; he attended the Gymnasium in Eisenach, the same institution where Bach had studied earlier. His instrument was the violin, and it was as a violinist that he found employment with a succession of margraves. Like Bach, he was fertile and fathered 8 children. He was even more prolific as a composer than the 2 other great Saxons, Bach and Handel. He wrote something like 170 chamber syms. and is credited with 66 instrumental concertos, not to mention religious works. He traveled to Italy, where he perfected his art of virtuoso instrumental writing. He lived sufficiently long to be impressed by the elegant style of French Rococo music, and some of his works may be described as Gallic.

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    Molter: Orchestral Music & Cantatas

    ComposerJohann Melchior Molter
    ArtistCamerata Bachiensis
    Julia Kirchner soprano
    Format1 CD
    Cat. number95273
    EAN code5028421952734
    ReleaseAugust 2016

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    Johann Melchior Molter (1696-1765) was a younger contemporary of J.S. Bach. The two composers were born in small Thuringian towns half a day’s ride away from each other, and then travelled farther afield to make their names in major cities: Bach, south to Leipzig,

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