Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 17., Hormayrg. 2	Standorte: CD.01B Vale	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

ACRONYM's latest release is the first recording devoted entirely to the instrumental music of Giovanni Valentini (1582/3-1649), who for more than twenty years was Hofkapellmeister of the Holy Roman Empire before fading into obscurity. Oddities & Trifles pairs selections from Valentini's published 1609 canzonas with nearly all of his extant manuscript sonatas (many of them containing strange chromaticism and metric eccentricities), and it consists almost entirely of premiere recordings.Valentini was likely a pupil of Giovanni Gabrieli, but no records of Valentini are extant prior to 1604 when he was appointed organist of the Polish court chapel at Warsaw. His earliest collections of canzonas (1609) and motets (1611) were published in Venice during his years in Poland. In 1614 he joined the court of the Archduke Ferdinand¿soon to be the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II¿at Graz, and upon Ferdinand¿s 1619 election Valentini moved to Vienna to serve as Imperial organist. He succeeded Giovanni Priuli as Hofkapellmeister in 1626, and he was ennobled in 1627. page 3 of 12From the 1620s through 1640s Valentini oversaw much of the musical life of Vienna. He served as choirmaster at the Michaelerkirche, wrote and produced many of the city¿s first operas, and was responsible for the expansion of the already-sizable roster of musicians employed at the Hapsburg court. Valentini also published several collections of poetry beginning in 1626. He was music tutor to the Imperial family and retained his position of Hofkapellmeister under Ferdinand III, who took the throne in 1637. Valentini died in Vienna on April 29/30, 1649 and was succeeded as Kapellmeister by Antonio Bertali (1605-1669),