This program will explore the clashing influences of France and Italy in Vienna in the late 1600s. While those influences were felt everywhere, nowhere were can they be seen more starkly than Vienna. Two gifted composers epitomized the respective styles: Johann Kaspar Kerll, who had been a student of the Roman master Giacomo Carissimi, and Georg Muffat, half Kerll's age, recently returned from the Paris of Jean-Baptiste Lully.

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