Christoph Graupner
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Christoph Graupner was a German composer and harpsichordist of late Baroque music who was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel.
Christoph Graupner's patron: Landgraf Ernst Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt
Title page of the libretto for an opera
Christoph Graupner's cantata for the birthday of Landgraf Ernst Ludwig, December 1726
Cantata
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A cantata is a vocal composition with instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements.
Christoph Graupner
…are about 2,000 surviving works in his catalog, including 113 sinfonias, 85 ouvertures (suites), 44 concertos, 8 operas, 1,418 religious and 24 secular cantatas, 66 sonatas and 57 harpsichord partitas. Nearly all of Graupner's manuscripts are housed in the University and State Library Darmstadt. Graupner wrote…
Soloquartet and strings