Heinrich Biber (1644-1704) was a Bohemian fiddler with a serious Marian fixation (or at least his supporters had such a fixation). He is best known for a series of 16 violin sonatas, Mysterien Sonaten ...

From the 17th century's adventuresome Heinrich Biber (whose violin sonata mimics nightingales, hens, and quails) right up through today, composers have been fascinated with our fine-feathered friends, ...

The Houston Early Music 2017-18 season will close with a momentous occasion: Heinrich Biber's daunting "The Mystery Sonatas," also known as the Rosary Sonatas, one of the most extraordinary sets of ...

This year marks the tercentenary of Heinrich Biber's death, and a more joyful commemoration than the one at Bath Abbey could hardly be imagined. Biber was thought the greatest violinist of his day, so ...

There were two ways of approaching this first modern performance of Heinrich Biber's Missa Christi resurgentis. One would have been to take the sceptic's view that, if a piece of music has lain ...

Heinrich Biber is suddenly a fashionable composer, and baroque specialists, it seems, are falling over each other to record his music. John Holloway's accounts of six of his intensely virtuosic ...

CAMBRIDGE — Every concertgoer knows the curiously comforting sound of string instruments tuning up before a concert, the hall abuzz with the sound of perfect fifths. But for anyone casually dropping ...

Introducing... York Early Music Festival, the July celebration of the genius of Biber and the musical heritage of France. THE 2004 York Early Music Festival will take its inspiration from the ...