Leopold Koželuch (1747-1818)
- Sinfonia Concertante Es-Dur (1798)
Performers: Siegbert Panzer (piano); Helmut Erb (trumpet); Takashi Ochi (1934-2010, mandolin);
Günter Klaus (double-bass);
Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt; Eliahu Inbal (conductor)
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Bohemian composer, pianist, music teacher and publisher. He was baptized
Jan Antonín, but began (not later than 1773) to use the name Leopold to
differentiate himself from his older cousin of that name. He received
his basic music education in Velvary and then studied music in Prague
with his cousin, who probably gave him a thorough grounding in
counterpoint and vocal writing, and with F.X. Dušek, whose piano and
composition school prepared him mainly for writing symphonies and piano
sonatas. After the success of his first ballets and pantomimes
(performed in Prague, 1771-78), Kozeluch abandoned his law studies for a
career as a musician. In 1778 he went to Vienna, where he quickly made a
reputation as an excellent pianist, teacher and composer. By 1781 he
was so well established there that he could refuse an offer to succeed
Mozart as court organist to the Archbishop of Salzburg. By 1784 Kozeluch
was publishing his own works; the following year he founded a music
publishing house, later managed as the Musikalisches Magazin by his
brother Antonín Tomáš Kozeluch (1752-1805). His compositions were also
published almost simultaneously by a number of other houses in various
countries. Kozeluch's business contacts with English publishers,
particularly John Bland, Robert Birchall, and Lewis, Houston & Hyde,
are well documented by correspondence. In September 1791 he achieved
success in high circles with a cantata commissioned by the Bohemian
Estates for the Prague coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia.
After the accession of Emperor Franz II he was appointed (12 June 1792)
Kammer Kapellmeister and Hofmusik Compositor. From about 1804 Kozeluch's
original work as a composer took second place to his arrangements of
Scottish, Irish and Welsh folksongs for the Edinburgh publisher George
Thomson, to teaching, and to the activities connected with his court
appointment, which he held until his death. His daughter Catharina
Cibbini (1785-1858) was a well-known pianist and composer of piano music
during the early 19th century in Vienna.
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