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Clamor Heinrich Abel (1634 – 25 July 1696) was a German composer,
Folie d'Espagne - sheet music excerpt and MIDIThe Hanover orchestral repertory, 1672–1714: significant source discoveries
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Abel, Heinrich Clamor 1634 births 1696 deaths Violone players German Baroque composers 17th-century German classical composers German male classical composers 17th-century German male musicians
Clamor Heinrich Abel (1634 – 25 July 1696) was a German composer, violone
The term violone (; literally 'large viol', being the augmentative suffix) can refer to several distinct large, bowed musical instruments which belong to either the viol or violin family. The violone is sometimes a fretted instrument, and may ...
player and organist.
Abel was born in Hünnefeld, Westphalia
Westphalia (; ; ) is a region of northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has an area of and 7.9 million inhabitants.
The territory of the region is almost identical with the h ...
, Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. It developed in the Early Middle Ages, and lasted for a millennium ...
. He worked as a court musician in Köthen
Köthen () is a town in Germany. It is the capital of the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt, about north of Halle.
Köthen is the location of the main campus and the administrative centre of the regional university, Anhalt Univers ...
, an organist in Celle
Celle () is a town and capital of the district of Celle (district), Celle in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany. The town is situated on the banks of the river Aller (Germany), Aller, a tributary of the Weser, and has a population of about ...
and from 1666, as a ducal chamber musician in Hanover
Hanover ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-l ...
. From 1694, he was ''Obermusicus'' in Bremen and he remained at this post until his death at Bremen in 1696.
Among his best-known works are compositions for string orchestra and chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...
. He composed a collection of 59 individual works under the title ''Erstlinge musikalischer Blumen''. They included works for four instruments and basso continuo
Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression. The phrase is often shortened to continuo, and the instrumentalists playing th ...
- allemandes, courantes, preludes, sarabandas and sonatinas. First they were published in three volumes in Frankfurt (1674, 1676, 1677) and later they were published together as ''Drei Opera musica'' (Brunswick, 1687).
He was the father of the violist and violinist Christian Ferdinand Abel
Christian Ferdinand Abel (July or August 1682, Hanover, Holy Roman Empire – buried 3 April 1761 (or 1737?), Köthen, Holy Roman Empire) was one of the most famous German Baroque violinists, cello, cellists and especially viol virtuosos.
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and grandfather of the viol
The viola da gamba (), or viol, or informally gamba, is a bowed and fretted string instrument that is played (i.e. "on the leg"). It is distinct from the later violin family, violin, or ; and it is any one of the earlier viol family of bow (m ...
virtuoso and composer Carl Friedrich Abel
Carl Friedrich Abel (22 December 1723 – 20 June 1787) was a German composer of the pre-Classical period (music), Classical era. He was a renowned player of the viol, viola da gamba, and produced significant compositions for that instrument ...
and Leopold August Abel.
Works
*''Erstlinge musikalischer Blumen'' *Bataille D Major for 2 violins and basso continuo *Sonata ''Sopra Cuccu'' for violin and basso continuo *'' Folie d'Espagne'' (1685)External links
*Folie d'Espagne - sheet music excerpt and MIDI
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Abel, Heinrich Clamor 1634 births 1696 deaths Violone players German Baroque composers 17th-century German classical composers German male classical composers 17th-century German male musicians