František Ignác Antonín Tuma (1704-1774) - Sinfonia a quattro (in si bemolle maggiore)
Performers: Concerto Italiano; Rinaldo Alеssаndrini (conductor)
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Bohemian composer. He received his first musical training from his
father, organist at Kostelec, and probably studied in Prague, at the
Jesuit seminary. He likely sang as a tenor chorister under Bohuslav
Matěj Černohorský at the Minorite Church of St. James the Great, and he
is believed to have received musical instruction from him. He then went
to Vienna, where he was active as a church musician; according to
Marpurg he became a vice-Kapellmeister at Vienna in 1722. Tůma's name
first appears in Viennese records in April 1727, when he got married. In
1731 he became 'Compositor und Capellen-Meister' to Count Franz
Ferdinand Kinsky, who was the High Chancellor of Bohemia. Kinsky's
patronage made it possible for him to study counterpoint with Johann Fux
in Vienna. He participated in the premiere of Fux's opera Constanza e
Fortezza along with Georg Benda and Sylvius Leopold Weiss. In 1734,
Kinsky recommended him for the post of the Kapellmeister to Prague
Cathedral, but his recommendation arrived too late and he may have
remained in Kinsky's service until the latter's death in 1741. In that
year he was appointed Kapellmeister to the dowager empress, the widow of
Emperor Charles VI. On her death in 1750, Tůma received a pension. For
the next 18 years he remained in Vienna and was active as a composer and
as a player on the bass viol and the theorbo; he was esteemed by the
court and the nobility, and at least one work may have been commissioned
from him by the Empress Maria Theresa. After the death of his wife in
about 1768, Tůma lived at the Premonstratensian monastery of Geras, but
in his last illness he returned to Vienna and died in the hospital of
the Merciful Brethren in the Leopoldstadt.
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