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Schmelzer - Sonata Quarta - Trio Romanesca

Johann Heinrich Schmelzer von Ehrenruef (1620 - 1680) Sonate Unarum Fidium - Sonata Quarta 1664 Trio Romanesca Nigel North - Theorbo John Toll - organ / harpsichord Andrew Manze - baroque violin Harmonia Mundi :::::::::::: Cryptext in his works The six Sonatae unarum fidium were probably originally intended for Schmelzer's own uses as a performer. The words unarum fidium simply translate as "for one violin." To turn a deaf ear to their other resonances, however, would be to mistake Schubert's Schwanengesang for ornithology. The usual meaning of fides is "trust," "faith" and therefore "loyalty" and "oath of allegiance." When used in the plural (as here), it can denote a gut-strung musical instrument, usually a lyre or lute: poets such as Virgil and Horace used the term in this way and Schmelzer here applies it (for the first time?) to the violin. It is highly likely that many of Schmelzer's contemporaries were not familiar with this rather obscure poetic usage, although, when reading the dedication of the Sonatae to Cardinal Carlo Caraffa, they only had to count the number of words beginning with fid- to appreciate the composer's conceit. Et si Unitatem Fidei requiris, non Fidei tantùm, sed & Fidium exhibeo, dum hasce unarum Fidium Sonatas, Professionis meae tesseram in publicum produco. ("If it is Unity of Faith you seek, I give you not just one Faith but [more than one/a Violin] by publishing these Sonatas [of several Faiths/for One Violin] as a token of this Declaration [of my allegiance].") Whilst hyperbolic flattery and abject humility were conventional ingredients of such dedications in seventeenth-century publications of music and literature, this riot of resonance cannot have failed to flatter the scholarly side of the Cardinal. Nor do Schmelzer's gentle games end there: as well as the veiled title, the sonatas' date of publication is not explicitly given on the title page but is concealed within the words anno qVo fIDeM soLVIt ratIsbona CaesarI ("the year in which Regensburg pledged faith to the Emperor" [Leopold I]). The larger letters are all roman numerals which add up to 1664, the year the Sonatae appeared. These puzzles are still visible and solvable today. One cannot help but wonder, however, how many other codes, conundrums and ciphers lie within the Sonatas themselves. it is the performers' responsibility to try to identify and understand these riddles as they occur, or at least to keep a mind open to the possibility that they are there, using empathy and intuition as much as traditional musicological skills. Schmelzer does no more than hint at an elusive philosophy, quite unlike the stylus phantasticus [...] prevalent at the time, harder to comprehend but, once grasped, far more rewarding. ~ by Andrew Manze, excerpt from his essay / cd liner notes