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Carl Heinrich Graun | Musical Moments with Philip Brunelle

February 19, 2021

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In this Musical Moment, VocalEssence artistic director and founder Philip Brunelle shares insider information and beautiful music by the composer Carl Heinrich Graun. 

Carl Heinrich Graun

1704-1759

Carl Heinrich Graun was a German composer of operas and sacred music, known especially for his Passion oratorio Der Tod Jesu. Graun was a chorister in Dresden, and from an early age, he composed several cantatas for church services and worked under the Neapolitan-opera composer Antonio Lotti. In 1725 he made his debut in opera as a tenor at Brunswick, but he was dissatisfied with the arias given to him and he rewrote them. He then began composing entire operas. At Brunswick, he also composed six operas and two Passions. He became music director to Frederick the Great in 1735 and while in royal service, Graun composed about 30 operas to Italian words, two of them, Montezuma and Merope, to librettos by Frederick. He was a leading composer of the preclassical Berlin school, which also included C.P.E. Bach, Johann Gottlieb, and Frederick the Great himself. His music shows a combination of old and new melodic and formal concepts and his operas are highly Italianized in the predominant Neapolitan style. 

Suggested Choral Pieces: 

  1. He Endured the Cross (Augsburg 1351)
  2. Lasset uns Aufsehen auf Jesum (Breitkopf & Härtel EBCHB 5275) 
  3. Four Motets (Breirkopf & Härtel EBCHB 5275) 
Posted in: Musical Moments
Tags: Composers of the 17th 18th and 19th Centuries • German and Austrian Composers

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