Kindermann/ Siedlaczek/ Kobow - Opitianischer Orpheus Release:Opitianischer Orpheus Cpo Records He returned to the Gewandhausorchester

He returned to the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

hands in the air

his most famous and most important compositions are heard

Vivaldi and others

Kindermann/ Siedlaczek/ Kobow - Opitianischer Orpheus Release:Opitianischer Orpheus Cpo Records He returned to the GewandhausorchesterBy his own account, Erasmus Kindermann was pressured by friends into setting poems by Martin Opitz to music and did so in works such as his Opitianischer Orpheus. The poems that he chose for the most part were selections from the Bucher Deutscher Poemata. The texts of the songs mostly focus on themes taken from ancient models: "carpe diem" and "memento mori" as well as love's joy and love's grief. Poems with moral and religious content and for special