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In November 2010, the Commission for Music Research held a conference entitled “The Appropriation of Musical Repertoires
in Central Europe, c. 1420–1450”. During this international symposiom a concert was organized which took place in the Viennese church Maria am Gestade. The pieces performed and presented in this live recording manifest the plurality and complexity of repertoires of polyphonic music in the liturgical and para-liturgical practice of the late Middle Ages. The repertoire ranges from ambitious works challenging even the singers of the period, like a mass by Dufay, to more common settings of sacred texts as they were regularly heard in contemporary liturgy. Apart from well-known composers, personalities of local importance (for Vienna and central Europe) are represented. In their pieces we hear their efforts to meet the requirements of the musical practice of the 15th
century and also to follow the international repertoire. The stylistic influences affecting the central European institutions came from England, Italy, and the Franko-Flemish cultural area. Besides the important German,Austrian, and Bohemian centers, two Habsburg rulers are in the focus of this recording: the kings Albrecht II and the later Frederick III, both of them dedicatees of an artistic motet.
in Central Europe, c. 1420–1450”. During this international symposiom a concert was organized which took place in the Viennese church Maria am Gestade. The pieces performed and presented in this live recording manifest the plurality and complexity of repertoires of polyphonic music in the liturgical and para-liturgical practice of the late Middle Ages. The repertoire ranges from ambitious works challenging even the singers of the period, like a mass by Dufay, to more common settings of sacred texts as they were regularly heard in contemporary liturgy. Apart from well-known composers, personalities of local importance (for Vienna and central Europe) are represented. In their pieces we hear their efforts to meet the requirements of the musical practice of the 15th
century and also to follow the international repertoire. The stylistic influences affecting the central European institutions came from England, Italy, and the Franko-Flemish cultural area. Besides the important German,Austrian, and Bohemian centers, two Habsburg rulers are in the focus of this recording: the kings Albrecht II and the later Frederick III, both of them dedicatees of an artistic motet.