Joseph Balthasar Hochreither (1669-1731) - Missa Jubilus Sacer (1731)

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Joseph Balthasar Hochreither! 🎺🙏🏼 Composer: Joseph Balthasar Hochreither (1669-1731) Work: Missa Jubilus Sacer a 8 et 15 (1731) Performers: Alois Mühlbаchеr (soprano); Mаrkus Forstеr (countertenor); Mаrkus Miеsеnbеrgеr (tenor); Gеrhаrd Kеnda (bass); St. Floriаnеr Sängеrknаbеn; Ars Antіquа Austrіа; Gunаr Lеtzbor (conductor) Missa Jubilus Sacer (1731) 1. Kyrie 0:00 2. Gloria 3:33 3. Credo 9:40 4. Sanctus 17:40 5. Benedictus 21:20 6. Agnus Dei 24:24 Painting: Antoine Coypel (1661-1722) - Assembly of the Gods HD image: Engraving: Johanna Sibylla Küsell () - Der Domplatz von Salzburg () HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Joseph (Johannes, Josef) Balthasar (Balthasarus) Hochreiter [Hochreither] (Salzburg, 16 April 1669 - Salzburg, 14 December 1731) Austrian composer. According to Hochreiter himself, one of his ancestors (perhaps his father) had been a treble at the monastery in Lambach in about 1650, had learnt to play the organ, and from 1662 had been employed (possibly as organist) there; he had also completed an important music inventory. Hochreiter himself was organist at the abbey at Lambach in Upper Austria from 1696 to 1721; he also trained the choirboys and some organists there, and set down his experiences in the manuscript Praecepta quaedam observanda, quae pro emolumento bonae musices maxime proderunt, dummo observentur (). He was at that time a close friend of Stephan Hieber, organist at the monastery in Kremsmünster (Upper Austria); he dedicated a mass to the abbot of that monastery in 1705 for the abbot’s nameday. In the same year he dedicated the Missa ad multos annos and the Missa genethliaca to Abbot Maximilian Pagl of Lambach, for his birthday and for his installation. In 1721 he relinquished his post in favour of the composer Maximilian Röll and, on the recommendation of Abbot Pagl, became cathedral organist at Salzburg and organist to the prince-archbishop; he held that office until his death. His name is not mentioned in the Necrologium of Lambach, so he could not have been in holy orders. From his compositions Hochreiter emerges as a skilful contrapuntist, and his vigorous orchestration is striking. In so far as conclusions can be drawn about his teaching activity from his vocal music, he must have been an outstanding choir trainer. In his masses he follows the grand polychoral style of the 17th century, still practised in Rome.