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Composer: Pietro Pompeo Sales (1729-1797)
Work: Missa Solennis ex D (c.1775)
Performers: Suzanne Cаlаbra (soprano); Elke Burkеrt (alto); Axel Reichardt (tenor); Tobias Schаrfеnbеrgеr (bass);
Triеrеr Kammerchor; SWR-Rundfunk-Orchester Kaiserslautern; Manfred Mаy (conductor)
Missa Solennis ex D (c.1775)
1. Kyrie 0:00
2. Gloria 6:35
3. Credo 22:53
4. Sanctus 31:03
5. Benedictus 32:33
6. Agnus Dei 36:21
Painting: Gregorio Guglielmi (1714-1773) - Apotheosis of the Reign of Catherine II
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Pietro Pompeo Sales [de Sala]
(Brescia, 1729 - Hanau, 21 November 1797)
Italian composer. After the early death of his parents in an earthquake he went to Innsbruck, entered the service of Baron Pircher and studied at Innsbruck University. In 1752 he composed a school drama for the Jesuits. Two years later he became conductor of an Italian opera troupe, with which he visited Cologne, Brussels, Lille and other cities. In 1756 he took charge of the court chapel of Prince-Bishop Joseph, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, in Augsburg and Dillingen an der Donau. He travelled widely as a performer and composer, becoming a member of the Bologna Accademia Filarmonica (1758) and composing an oratorio for Mannheim (1762) and operas for Munich (1765) and Padua (1767). After the landgrave’s death in 1768, Sales, taking with him some of the Augsburg musicians, moved to the court of the Trier Elector Clemens Wenzeslaus (who had succeeded to the title of Prince-Bishop of Augsburg) at Ehrenbreitstein am Rhein. There he headed the court chapel, one of the largest in Germany, although he was not appointed court Kapellmeister until 1787, after the death of Konrad Starck. He maintained his connection with the Munich court by composing the carnival operas in 1769 and 1774. In 1774 he married the court singer Franziska Blümer. In 1776 he appeared in London as a viol player (according to Choron and Fayolle: Dictionnaire historique des musiciens, Paris, 1810-11/R, this was his second visit), and in 1777 he performed a Passion in Frankfurt. In 1786 he moved with the elector’s court to the newly built castle at Koblenz, which the court had to abandon twice (in 1792 and 1794) during the wars of the French Revolution. In 1797 he again had to flee the French and died before he could return. Sales was a versatile composer in the current Italian style, but the care with which he wrote also reflects developments in Germany. He was well regarded as a composer in his lifetime, but a promise he had made to the elector not to publish prevented any wider distribution of his work. Schubart thought highly of Sales, although he expressed some reservations about his work in the Ideen zu einer Ästhetik der Tonkunst. It must be assumed that many of his compositions are lost. His most important surviving works are his oratorios, particularly Betulia liberata.