Leopold Hofmann (1738-1793)
- Concerto in D a Flauto Concertato
Performers: Kurt Redel (1918-2013, flute); Münchener Kammerorchester; Hans Stadlmair (1929-2019, conductor)
Further info: Concertos
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Austrian organist and composer. The son of the court official Georg Adam
Hofmann, he showed musical gifts when very young. He received his
earliest musical education as a chorister in the Kapelle of Dowager
Empress Elisabeth beginning at the age of 7. His teachers over the next
several years included Georg Christoph Wagenseil and Giuseppe Trani. By
1758 he was employed at St. Michael’s Church, following which he served
at St. Peter’s Church, eventually becoming Kapellmeister in 1766, the
year after he was appointed hofKapellmeister to the Imperial court.
There he taught the royal family and participated throughout Vienna as
an organist and composer. In 1772 he became Georg von Reutter Jr.’s
assistant at St. Stephen’s Cathedral, eventually taking over all
functions at the church. He seems never to have been officially
appointed to the post of chief Kapellmeister, possibly due to the
necessity of denying the position of his assistant to violinist Tobias
Gsur, who was unfit for the task. In 1786 he settled into retirement at
his home in Oberdöbling. Hofmann was one of the major figures in Vienna
of the period. His compositions for both the church and court were
popular, and his music was well crafted. Although mainly homophonic in
style, his church music was seen as an advance on the often antiquated
style of his predecessor Reutter, with its absorption of Neapolitan
musical devices. As a symphonist, he often used a slow introduction and
clear-cut forms. His music includes 43 Masses, a Requiem, 29 antiphons,
seven sacred arias, 16 litanies, 38 motets or offertories, two
oratorios, 16 Psalms, 14 tracts, a responsory, three sequences, three
vespers, 10 Lieder, 47 symphonies, 59 concertos (for violin, cello,
flute, oboe, and keyboard), 19 concertinos, 22 divertimentos, 54 trios,
27 duets, six violin sonatas, 13 keyboard works, and three works for
solo flute. His music is known by Badley numbers.
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