Aug 30, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min · 11 segments
**L**et's be fair, this is a deeply flawed title. Why? Well the idea is to play music written by German composers when they were living in or visiting Italy. But in the 18th century… which is when…
The orphanage in Venice, the Ospedale della Pietà, is where Antonio Vivaldi taught and wrote much of the work he is remembered for.
Consequently, he is the only composer generally connected to the institution, but Wikipedia lists close to fifty other musicians who taught and in some cases composed there.
One of them, two generations before Vivaldi, was Johann Rosenmüller, born near Dresden in 1610.
He spent twenty-five years in Venice, and most of that time he was head of choral teaching at the Ospedale.
But he is now perhaps best remembered for a set of pieces he wrote for small groups of instruments in 1681 which were published under the name Sonatas for Two, Three, Four and Five String and Other Instruments.
And at this time, sonata was a term for pretty much any music where the instruments had individual lines of melody.
This is the ninth sonata, it's about six minutes long, and here is Jordi Savall leading the group Hesperion XX.
That was Jordi Savall leading the group Hesperion XX with Johann Rosenmüller's Ninth Sonata for Strings and other instruments.
The orphanage in Venice, the Ospedale della Pietà, is where Antonio Vivaldi taught and wrote much of the work he is remembered for.
Consequently, he is the only composer generally connected to the institution, but Wikipedia lists close to fifty other musicians who taught and in some cases composed there.
One of them, two generations before Vivaldi, was Johann Rosenmüller, born near Dresden in 1610.
He spent twenty-five years in Venice, and most of that time he was head of choral teaching at the Ospedale.
But he is now perhaps best remembered for a set of pieces he wrote for small groups of instruments in 1681 which were published under the name Sonatas for Two, Three, Four and Five String and Other Instruments.
And at this time, sonata was a term for pretty much any music where the instruments had individual lines of melody.
This is the ninth sonata, it's about six minutes long, and here is Jordi Savall leading the group Hesperion XX.
That was Jordi Savall leading the group Hesperion XX with Johann Rosenmüller's Ninth Sonata for Strings and other instruments.
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