Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774-1842)
- Sinfonie 7 in Es-Dur (1799)
Performers: Concerto Copenhagen; Lars Ulrik Mortеnsеn (conductor)
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Danish pianist, organist, pedagogue and composer of German descent. He
studied with his grandfather, a cantor in Altona, and in 1789 went to
Copenhagen, where he studied with Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, and where
he remained the rest of his life. After establishing his reputation as a
pianist, he devoted himself to the organ. He was deputy organist
(1792-94) and principal organist (1794-1805) at the Reformed Church, and
then served as principal organist at the Cathedral from 1805 until his
death, winning great renown as a master of improvisation. He had an
unhappy love affair in 1801 and remained unmarried. In 1816 he was named
titular professor at the University and was awarded an honorary
doctorate in 1842, the year of his death. In 1819 he was appointed court
composer. Through the court conductor Friedrich Ludwig Aemilius Kunzen,
he became interested in a movement for the establishment of a national
school of Danish opera, for which his works (together with those of
Friedrich Kuhlau) effectively prepared the way. As a composer, he wrote
numerous singspiele, Christmas carols, a setting of the Te Deum and of
the Miserere, over 30 cantatas, and above all, lieder after poems by
Matthias Claudius, Johann Heinrich Voss and Ludwig Christoph Heinrich
Hölty. He also composed seven symphonies and numerous pieces for solo
piano. A conservative by nature, he was rooted in 18th-century musical
ideals, extending from Baroque to Classical but not beyond Mozart, and
he did not sympathize at all with the new trends in Beethoven's works.
He composed seven symphonies (1795-99) that demonstrate Joseph Haydn's
influence, some of which were partly re-used for overtures and
incidental music in his theatrical works. He remains best known for his
fine songs though.
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