| | GMCD 7255 The Seasons in Zurich |
 | | This by no means led to a dearth of music-making, but made the private house for many years the principal venue for playing and hearing music; the works composed in Zurich until the mid-1700s were accordingly small in scale. |
 | | It is also of more than purely local interest, for it seems to have been the first ever musical setting of any section of the poem The Seasons, a work remembered today thanks largely to Joseph Haydn’s oratorio of the same name (also based, in part, on Brockes’ translation). |
 | | In this, he declares his opposition to the aesthetic favoured by the older Bachofen, who in his foreword to his Brockes settings of 1740 took a swipe at Italian music, writing that ‘I have taken great care to steer clear of the new Italian ‘passages’ that are now fashionable. |
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