Josef Antonín Gurecký (1709-1769)
- Concerto (I, D-Dur) per il Violino (c.1740)
Performers: Adela Stajnochrová (violin); Musica Florеa; Marеk Stryncl (conductor)
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Moravian composer. Like his younger brother, Václav Matyáš Gurecký, he
apparently studied with the Piarists and played in the orchestra of
Cardinal Schrattenbach in Kroměříž. He also played in the orchestra of
Schrattenbach's successor Jakob Ernst von Liechtenstein (1738-45).
During this time he possibly travelled around Europe, staying perhaps at
the court of Count Rudolph Franz Erwein Schönborn in Wiesentheid where
some of his music survives. On the death of his brother in 1743 Gurecký
took his place as musical director of Olomouc Cathedral, a post he held
until his death. Leopold Mozart attended a service in the cathedral in
1767 and found it dull, but this may have been partly due to the absence
of trumpets, which had been prohibited in church services since 1754.
Gurecký composed mostly church music, of which only eight sacred arias
survive. In 1751 he wrote a festival opera for the 600th anniversary of
the founding of the Premonstratensian monastery of Hradisko, near
Olomouc, an allegorical work entitled Filia Sion; only the printed Latin
libretto is extant.
