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capellmeister

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capellmeister, kapellmeister [kæˈpɛlˌmaɪstə]
n
(Music / Classical Music) a person in charge of an orchestra, esp in an 18th-century princely household See also maestro di cappella
[from German, from Kapelle chapel + Meister master]


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He had already conceived the idea of writing a series of violin sonatas in Mannheim and even acknowledged the impulse for them--the Divertimenti da camera a Cembalo e Violino by the Dresden capellmeister Josef Schuster, which he had sent to his sister Nannerl in October 1777 with the postscript, ".
Italian influence had always been marked in the music of Germany from the sixteenth century onward, as is evidenced in the compositions of Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schutz (who visited Italy twice), and the presence of Italians in German courts, such as Dresden, that had five or six Italians in its capella, including Antonio Scandello, capellmeister between 1568 and 1580.
The poem devotes many lines to the court capellmeister Hasse, and then to Habenstreit, a player on the pantaleon or dulcimer, which was a very fashionable instrument in the period.
 
 
 
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