Leopold Koželuh (1747-1818)
- Concerto (B-Dur) | per | Clavicembalo ô Forte-Piano | a quatro
mani | con l'accompagnamento di | 2 Violini | 2 Oboi | 2 Corni in B |
Viola e Violoncello (c.1786)
Performers: Elena Sorokina (piano); Alexander Bakhchiev (1930-2007,
piano); Symphony Orchestra Northern Crown; Yuri Nikolaevsky (1925-2003,
conductor)
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Bohemian composer, pianist, music teacher and publisher. His earliest
musical education was under Antonín Kubík and his cousin Jan Antonín
Koželuh (1738-1814) in his hometown. By 1771 he had moved to Prague,
where he studied briefly under František Xaver Dusek and wrote ballets
for the National Theatre. By 1774 he had Germanized his name to prevent
confusion with his cousin Jan Antonín Koželuh, arriving in Vienna in
1778 to study under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger. In 1781 he was given
the post as teacher of Archduchess Elisabeth, Georg Christoph
Wagenseil’s old position. By 1781 he was so well established there that
he could refuse an offer to succeed Mozart as court organist to the
Archbishop of Salzburg. He remained active in Viennese musical and
social circles the remainder of his life. In 1792, he succeeded Mozart
as Kammermusicus to the Imperial Court in Vienna. Although he is best
known for his disparaging remarks on the music of Mozart, Joseph Haydn,
and Ludwig van Beethoven, as a composer he had a reputation for works
that demonstrated good orchestration and solid formal structures. His
400 or so compositions include six operas, 25 ballets, five Masses,
numerous smaller church works, two oratorios, 30 symphonies, 22 piano
concertos (plus others for clarinet and bassoon), two sinfonia
concertantes, 24 violin sonatas, six string quartets, 63 keyboard trios,
10 parthies, two serenades, eight divertimentos, 61 dances, 87 keyboard
sonatas, nine secular cantatas, and six vocal notturnos. His daughter
Katharina Koželuh-Cibbini (1785-1858) was a well-known pianist and
composer of piano music during the early 19th century in Vienna.
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