Florian Johann Deller (1729-1773)
- Suite-Ballet 'Orfeo Ed Euridice' (1763)
Performers: Consortium Musicum; Walter Thoеnе (conductor)
Further info: Am Hofe Des Herzogs Karl Eugen Von Württemberg
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Austrian composer and violinist. Little is known of his early education,
save that it was at regional monastic schools. He first appears in 1751
as a violinist in Stuttgart, where he studied under Niccolò Jommelli.
His first success as a composer was with a ballet 'Orfée et Euridice'
(1763), choreographed by Jean-Georges Noverre. By 1769 he had achieved a
success as an opera composer in Vienna with a production at the
Burgtheater of 'Il maestro di cappella' (1773) and had been appointed
concertmaster and Hofcompositeur in Stuttgart. He soon left and settled
in Munich, where he is reputed to have received a commission from Maria
Antonia Walpurgis to write a mass for Dresden. He died in Munich on his
way back from further work in Vienna. As a composer, he was known as a
facile composer particularly of ballet music, with a good solid sense of
danceable rhythm. His music was generally in the Viennese Classical
style with the addition of Italian orchestral recitative for the large
pantomime scenes and folklike melodies. His works include 11 ballets,
nine comic operas, four symphonies, six trio sonatas, two flute
concertos, and numerous sacred compositions.
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