Sonata da camera Eb-major, op. 2, for Oboe, 2 Violas (Violetta and Viola) and Basso continuo

In his compositions, Johann Gottlieb Janitsch makes direct use of the traditions conveyed in compositions of trios and quadros by Pisendel, Quantz and the Graun brothers. Clinging to the genre standards of a three-part movement in Sonate da camera and in a four-part movement in the Sonate da chiesa in their outer appearance, the sonata forms also follow the harmonious conventions of the forma bipartita (with the exception of the mostly through-composed slow introduction) in their internal structure, so the respective repeated harmonious movement from the first to the fifth degree (in major movements) and the corresponding return in the second segment. However Janitsch's trios and quadros obtain their individual character from their sensitive, detail-rich coloured and rhythmic subtle, syncopated melody creations joined with a competent contrapunctual combination of the individual voices. ...In the foreword of his three Sonate da camera as Op. I printed in 1761 in Berlin, two years before his death, Janitsch himself states wherein the difficulties of the interpretation of his chamber music lie: It is this type of composition which consists of three main= voices and a basic=voice, thereof the first arranged in a manner that they constantly copy themselves and consequently give understanding musicians the opportunity to show their skills in changing its clauses when these are repeated.

Sonata, Quartet

• Ortus (Hg. Carolin Sibilak), 2012

Sonata da camera Eb-major
for Oboe, 2 Violas and Basso continuo
Score and parts‍‍