Robert Woodcock (1690-1728) - Concerto ex De | a.5. | Hautbois Concerto | Violino Primo |
Violino Secundo | Viola | et | Cembalo
[previously attributed to Georg
Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) and Jacques Loeillet (1685-1748)]
Performers: Les Solistes de Liege; Géry Lemaire (1926-2013, conductor)
Further info: Trésors De La Musique Belge
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English painter, composer and woodwind player. Son of Robert Woodcock
(1642-1710) and Deborah Littleton, he grew up in Shrewsbury House,
Chelsea, London, where his parents ran a girls school. In 1714, he
married Ayliffe Stoaks, by whom he had several children. According to a
contemporaneous biographical account, he worked as a civil servant,
holding a 'place or clerkship in the Government.' He resigned his
government post around 1723 to devote himself to marine painting, and
that he was ‘very skillful in music, had judgement and performed on the
hautboy in a masterly manner’. John Hawkins called Woodcock ‘a famous
performer on the flute’, but he was more likely an enthusiastic amateur
on the oboe, recorder and flute. As a composer, his only surviving
compositions are a set of XII Concertos in Eight Parts (1727). They are
of historical importance as the first flute concertos ever published and
the first oboe concertos published by an English composer.
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