Born in Megève in 1653, Georg Muffat is still unjustly unknown to the general public. Yet it is one of the greatest composers of the seventeenth alongside Lully, Corelli and Biber he has all rubbed shoulders, he has learned a lot and he is the first to want to reconcile the styles in a vast artistic project.
He left very young in Paris to study and then moved to Bavaria, then traveled to Vienna, Prague, Salzburg and Rome in 1680 to study with Pasquini and Corelli. Composed during his Roman stay, The Armonico Tributo is legitimately considered as the musical testimony of what Muffat learned and heard in Rome and a masterpiece among the first concerti grossi.
