In the history of music, Georg Christoph Wagenseil is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Georg Christoph Wagenseil as Austrian composer.
Georg Christoph Wagenseil was born at Vienna in 1715. His recorded nationality is Archduchy of Austria.
Music then was written to commission, for a court, a church or a patron, and a composer's freedom was bounded by whoever paid.
He worked as organist, composer and harpsichordist.
The instruments recorded are pipe organ.
His work is classed as opera and symphony.
Performance is the most perishable art and recording the most durable; a career sits between the two.
That the work came out of Archduchy of Austria shaped it: musical traditions, training institutions and the reach of a recording industry all differ by country.
Georg Christoph Wagenseil died in 1777, aged 62. The recordings and scores remain, which is the only durable form a musical life takes.
Achievements
- Instruments: pipe organ
- Genres: opera and symphony
