Antoine de Lhoyer (1768-1852)
- Concerto (La majeur) pour la Guitarre, oeuvre 16 (1799)
Performers: Reinbert Evеrs (guitar); Saint Christophеr Orchestra; Donаtаs Kаtkus (conductor)
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French guitarist and composer. At the age of 20 he embarked upon a
military career, but the French Revolution prompted his emigration in
1791. By 1792, in Koblenz he had enlisted with the armée des Princes
which joined with an allied army of Prussian and Austrian soldiers led
by the Duke of Brunswick in an unsuccessful invasion of France in 1792.
The years 1794-97 saw him participating in the campaigns with the
Austrian army, and in 1799-1800 he served with counter revolutionary
forces in the Army of Condé. He was wounded in battle and lost the use
of his right hand for three years. He took refuge in Hamburg where he
settled as a guitar teacher, but in 1802 left for St Petersburg where he
remained for ten years as a guitarist at the tsar’s court. He returned
to France in 1812, and rejoined the army after the Restoration of Louis
XVIII in 1814. Between 1820 and 1825, he established his home in nearby
Niort where he married and had four children. Possibly due to the
decline in popularity of the guitar in salon music, replaced by the
increasingly popular pianoforte, no more music of Lhoyer appears to have
been published from 1826 onward. In 1831, he established his home in
Aix-en-Provence staying there until 1836. Next he took his family to
Algeria settling near the capital Algiers and then finally in 1852 to
Paris where he died in poverty.
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