SKU: CA.2408200
This edition: Complete
edition. Carus book
series: Catalogues of
composers' works;
Complete editions /
Selected works: Gottfried
August Homilius. Selected
Works. Homilius,
Thematisches
Werkverzeichnis. Book.
688 pages. Carus Verlag
#CV 24.082/00. Published
by Carus Verlag
(CA.2408200).
Text
language:
German.
The Dresden
Kreuzkantor Gottfried
August Homilius belongs
to the composers whose
works have been
rediscovered in recent
years. Previously almost
forgotten, today he is
rightly attracting
increasing attention.
Celebrated by his
contemporaries to be
accepted as the best
church composer, his
works are disseminated in
countless copies and also
frequently in
arrangements. The
complete, surviving works
were examined for this
first, exhaustive
thematic catalog of the
works of Gottfried August
Homilius. Not only every
work, but also every
individual movement is
provided with a music
incipit and information
concerning scoring, and
different versions of a
work or surviving
versions are presented,
as well as a list of all
known manuscripts,
editions, libretti, new
editions and, whenever
possible, arranged
chronologically and
geographically. Thus not
only a reliable catalog
of the works of the
Dresden Kreuzkantor is
presented here, but also
a good deal on church
music tradition and
church history in the
second half of the 18th
century is examined and
placed in perspective.
The volume includes
various tables and
indexes which amplify the
contents of the catalog
and in addition important
kantors and copyists from
Homilius's era are
presented in a lexical
appendix.
August
