Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber and his 2 cornetti

 One of my personal favorite baroque composers is Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber. Much like Justin Bieber he crossed both secular and sacred works. 

As a violinist, he wrote many instrumental works he often used 2 cornetti in with the orchestra. He also wrote vocal works for the church in the form on masses and motets. The use of cornetti is why I like him as a composer. It has nothing to do with his personal life where he illegally left his post to move to Salzburg where he eventually became kopplemiester.

Here is an example of 2 cornetti being used in his instrumental works.

 Another example is his sacred work, Missa Salisburgensis. Originally credited to Benevoli, but when the score was found being used to wrap vegetables almost 100 years later. They were able to give credit to the original composer. This huge choral work for 53 voices also uses to cornetti. Here is a recording of the whole work, the 4th choro really shows the 2 cornetti parts around 24:00 minutes into this recording.