Download or read book The Instrumental Music of Schmeltzer, Biber, Muffat and Their Contemporaries written by Charles E. Brewer and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on primary sources, many of which have never been published or examined in detail, this book examines the music of the late seventeenth-century composers, Biber, Schmeltzer and Muffat, and the compositions preserved in the extensive Moravian archives in Kromeriz. Charles E. Brewer sets these composers and their music within a framework that first examines the basic Baroque concepts of instrumental style, and then provides a context for the specific works.