Meinrad Spiess (1683-1761) - Laetatus sum (1717)

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Meinrad Spiess! 🍷🎻 Composer: Meinrad Spiess (1683-1761) Work: Laetatus sum aus Cithara Davidis noviter animata ... opus II (1717) Performers: Erika Rüggeberg (1940-2018, soprano); Convivium Musicum München; Chor Der Herz-Jesu-Kirche München; Josef Schmidhuber (1924-1990, conductor) Painting: Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (1686-1775) - Apotheose der heiligen Cäcilia mit Engelskonzert HD image: Further info: Listen free: No available --- Meinrad (Matthäus) Spiess (Honsolgen, 24 August 1683 - Irsee, 12 June 1761) German composer and theorist. Son of a farmer, he entered the Benedictine Abbey of Irsee in 1701 where he was ordained priest in 1708. Then he settled in Munich where he received music lessons from Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei. In 1712 he returned to the abbey at Irsee as kapellmeister, a post he held the rest of his life. There he was mainly in charge of the church music for which he wrote a largely number of masses, motets and other sacred works. In 1743 Lorenz Christoph Mizler accepted him as member of the reputed Societät der Musikalischen Wissenschaften in Leipzig, a society of music scholars and composers including, among others, Johann Sebastian Bach, Telemann and Handel.