Johann Christoph (Petz) Pez

As an Italian tenor Pez sang in the choir at St. Marks in Munich where he also went to school. He afterwards performed the lute as well as the viol in the orchestra at St. Peter’s, Munich, performing in the choir and getting maestro in 1687. During his profession Pez also offered the Elector Utmost Emanuel in Munich, Joseph Clemens in Bonn as well as the Wurttemberg Courtroom from 1706 until his loss of life. He acceded to the positioning of Kapellmeister in both Bonn and Wurttemberg. While in Munich he previously been offering the cathedral but discovered the music to become too conservative. Finding a work in the courtroom he was delivered to Rome where he could research with Corelli and find out new strategies. Corelli’s influence can be within the compositions of Pez. The vocal compositions had been seen as a homophony in a number of moods and rhythms. Instrumental parts, specially the strings, frequently doubled the voices apart from bass solos which were followed by strings. Pez also constructed public and psalms that he rarely utilized ornamentation. The just noted example of Pez’s solid melodic presents are noticed in the strains from the single cantata, “Corona stellarum.”