Sonate da camera e Sinfonie (Savall) (1992)

"Johann Rosenmüller (1619-1684) provides a clear link between German and Venetian instrumental music. He was trained young in Venice, then returned to Germany with a position of some responsibility in Leipzig. He was thrown out in 1655 under the cloud of sexual charges, and eventually returned to Venice where he was a trombonist and composer until 1682. Near the end of his life, he returned to Germany, to a position in Wolfenbüttel. Rosenmüller's Sonate à 2. 3. 4. è 5. stromenti da arco & altri (Nuremberg, 1682) is by far his most highly acclaimed publication, composed at the end of his time in Venice, and showing a strong fusion of Italian with embryonic German styles. Together with his earlier instrumental music, the sonatas place Rosenmüller among the most important German composers to import the Italian style."