Franz Vinzenz Krommer (1759-1831)
- Concerto Pour deux Clarinettes
composé et dédié à M. de Marsano, Op.35 (c.1802)
Performers: Ludmila Pеtеrková (clarinet); Marjolein de Rοοs (clarinet);
Czech Ensemble Baroque; Roman Válеk (conductor)
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Moravian composer. He was the son of the innkeeper and later mayor of
Kamenice Jiří Kramář (1737–1810), and the nephew of the composer and
choirmaster Anton Matthias Krommer (1742-1804) with whom he studied
violin and organ. Later he was self-taught in composition. He became a
violinist in the orchestra of the Duke of Styrum in Simontornya (1786),
becoming his music director (1788). Towards the end of 1790 he became
Kapellmeister of Pécs Cathedral; after 1793 he acted as Kapellmeister
and composer in the service of a Duke Karolyi and later of Prince Antal
Grassalkovich de Gyarak. In 1798 he became Kapellmeister to Duke Ignaz
Fuchs. Then he returned to Vienna where in 1806 he applied,
unsuccessfully, to join the Vienna Hofkapelle as a violinist. In 1810 he
was appointed Ballett-Kapellmeister at the Wien Hofkapelle. On 14 June
1815 he was appointed Kammertürhüter to the emperor, and in this office
accompanied Emperor Franz I to Paris and Padua in the same year, and to
Verona, Milan and Venice in 1816. From 13 September 1818 until his death
he succeeded Leopold Anton Kozeluch as the last official director of
chamber music and court composer to the Habsburg emperors. As a
composer, he wrote over 300 works, among them, accomplished solo
concertos for wind instruments, as well as symphonies, sacred works,
much chamber music and piano pieces. He was one of the most successful
of the many influential Moravian composers in Vienna at the turn of the
18th century. His son August Krommer (1807-1842), an insurance agent in
Vienna, was for a time a violinist in the orchestra of the Burgtheater,
and also appeared in public as a pianist in 1833.
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