Fear, hope and wavering scales

Christoph Graupner (1683 – 1760) studied music with Johann Kuhnau at the Thomasschule, and law at the university of Leipzig. His musical career, however, took him away from the city. By the early 1720s, he was firmly established at the Darmstadt court and he had built a reputation as Kapellmeister and prolific composer of cantatas, […]