Sebastian George (c.1740-1796) - Sinfonia in F-Dur (c.1775)
Performers: Ensemble Altera pars
Further info: No available
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German composer. Nothing is known about his youth and musical training.
By 1767 he was active in Russia, where he remained his whole life. There
he was appointed music director at the Moscow University. In the
mid-1770s, he established a shop in St. Petersburg, offering a diverse
array of sheet music, musical instruments, wines, and other curated
goods. For an extended period, George's musical legacy remained largely
unknown. However, a decisive discovery at the National Library of
Ukraine in Kyiv brought his work to light. An inventory of their
holdings revealed a substantial collection of his handwritten scores,
notably within the extensive music archive of Count Alexei Razumovsky, a
prominent political figure and generous patron of the arts. It resulted
in the identification of approximately 30 previously unknown George
compositions, each preserved in unique, single-copy manuscripts, and
among them, symphonies, a sinfonia concertante and chamber pieces.
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