Sundays Featured Classical Composer & Piece. Johann David Heinichen - Concerto A major for Oboe d'amore, strings and B.C - 12 minutes. #SundaysFeaturedClassicalPiece

A lovely laid back piece from Johann David Heinichen - perfect for a Sunday afternoon from an unsung composer ranked as good as - if not better ! than Bach himself.
#JohannDavidHeinichen #german #composer 1683 - 1729 From "Classical Net" : Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729) Introduction To suggest that Johann David Heinichen's music and theoretical writings have been under-explored would be an understatement. Heinichen and his music has surely suffered the same fate as many of his contemporaries in being overshadowed by the 19th century preoccupation with Johann Sebastian Bach!, yet his works are masterpieces according to the rules of composition still recognised today. Evidence that Heinichen was regarded as a distinguished composer and theorist in his day is found in the quotations of the writers Charles Burney, Johann Scheibe and Johann Mattheson, "The Rameau of Germany," "Nature guides his every note" and "does not just compose, he contemplates and thinks….and shows the world what knowledge is." In Walther's Musicalisches Lexicon (1732) Heinichen's entry occupies two columns while J.S. Bach's only receives two-thirds of a column. It was Mattheson in 1739 who coined the phrase "three important H's of German music" to describe Handel, Heinichen and Hasse.