O, du lieber Augustin Music in Vienna during the Great Plague of Vienna in 1679

O, du lieber Augustin

Program

Vienna festeggiante
Vienna celebrates

  • Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1623-1680)
    Arie per il Balletto a Cavallo La Contesa dell’Aria
  • Antonio Draghi (1634-1700)
    Serenata pour le Carnaval (extraits)
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704)
    Sonata representativa

Vienna lacrimosa
Vienna cries

  • Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1623-1680)
    Lamento
    Sileat misericordiam tuam, o bone Jesu
  • Johann Kaspar Kerll (1627-1693)
    Extraits Missa in fletu solatium

Danksagungen
Thanksgiving

  • Antonio Bertali (1605-1669)
    Sonata a due chori
  • Leopold Ier (1640-1705)
    Ave maris stella
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704)
    Vespro B.V.M (extraits)
    Lux perpetua

O, du lieber Augustin is a popular Austrian song, composed in 1679 by Mark Augustin, a Viennese street musician. The story says that, completely drunk, the singer falls into a well filled with bodies of people who have died of the plague that is ravaging the town. He falls asleep there! The next morning he wakes up, and miraculously, he does not catch the terrifying disease. He is believed to have been protected by the alcohol… which also helped him write this song.

 

Akadêmia :

8 singers
11 instrumentalists

Françoise Lasserre, conductor

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