In the baroque era things were really happening – not just in life, but also in music. The works of baroque composers not only testify to intense drama, but also, as can be experienced in this concert, to a large portion of humour. Georg Muffat, the cosmopolitan among the baroque composers, wrote his "instrumental concertos woven from seriousness and fun" "for a special refreshment of the ear", which to this day prove the inventiveness and the playful side of the baroque age. Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber is just as graphic and humorous: in his piece »La Battaglia«, which was probably composed for the carnival of 1673, he not only imitates a battle, but also the confused singing of drunken musketeers. Georg Philipp Telemann, on the other hand, shows his satirical side in his »overture combined with a tragi-comic suite« entitled »The imaginary sick person« by presenting extremely questionable medical tips for recovery. The gout sufferer should be cured by a bumpy stagecoach ride and dancing, the imaginary sick person by heroic tolerance, and the vain dandy should go to a brothel to be cured. With these and other original musical delicacies we continue the series of our baroque concerts. the imaginary sick through heroic tolerance and the vain dandy should go to a brothel to be cured. With these and other original musical delicacies we continue the series of our baroque concerts. the imaginary sick through heroic tolerance and the vain dandy should go to a brothel to be cured. With these and other original musical delicacies we continue the series of our baroque concerts.
