GEORGE, Sebastian (c.1740-1796) - Sinfonia in F-Dur (c.1775)

Sebastian George (c.1740-1796) - Sinfonia in F-Dur (c.1775)

Performers: Ensemble Altera pars

Painting: Benjamin Patersson (1748-1815) - Vue de la grande parade au Palais

de L’Empereur Alexandre I, a St.Petersbourg

Further info: No available

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Sebastian George [Gheorghe]

(Mainz, c.1740 - St. Petersburg?, 1796)

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. 

DOBBERT, Christian Friedrich (c.1700-1770) - Sonata pour la flûte traversière avec la basse (c.1749)

Christian Friedrich Döbbert (c.1700-1770) - Sonata in a-moll des 'Six sonatas [a, D, C, e, A, G]

pour la flûte traversière seule avec la basse chiffrée ... œuvre I' (c.1749)

Performers: Sabine Dreier (flute); Martina Degen (viola da gamba); Irene Hegen (harpsichord)

Painting: Alexander Roslin (1718-1793) - Christian Friedrich Döbbert

Further info: Six sonatas pour la flûte traversière seule avec la basse chiffrée

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Christian Friedrich Döbbert [Töppert]

(Berlin?, c.1700 - 1770)

German wind player and composer. Almost nothing is known about his life. He is initially documented as a recently arrived oboe player at the Saxon Court of the Kingdom of Poland in Warsaw during the 1732-33 season with a salary of 230 Thaler, under the Court 'compositeur' Giovanni Alberto Ristori. By 1736, he is documented as a flautist and oboist at the Court of Bayreuth under the Kapellmeister Johann Pfeiffer. In September 1744, he is mentioned as a chamber flautist during a hunting party of the Margravine Wilhelmine (1709-1758) and Margrave Friedrich (1711-1763), in which he was accompanied by the bassoonist Johann Gotthelf Liebeskind, the flautist Johann Stephan Kleinknecht, the concertmaster Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, and the castrato Stefano Leonardi. He remained at the Court of Bayreuth at least until the 1760-61 season. As a composer, he published a set of 'Six sonatas pour la flûte traversière seule avec la basse chiffrée ... œuvre I' (Nürnberg, c.1749). He also left a 'Concerto a 5 | Flauto Traverso | Violino Imo | Violino 2do | Viola e Basso' only preserved in manuscript copy and previously attributed to Johann Joachim Quantz.

Unknown composer (18th Century) - Hosha'na Rabba (c.1732)

Unknown composer (18th Century) - Hosha'na Rabba in Casale Monferrato (c.1732)

Performers: Gila Yaron (soprano); Mirah Zakai (alto); Nigel Rogers (tenor); Willy Haparnas (baritone);

The Cameran Singers; Chamber ensemble; Avner Itai (conductor)

Engraving: Jacques-Simon Chéreau (1761-1807) - Jérusalem

Further info: Synagogue Music In The Baroque

MASCITTI, Michele (1664-1760) - Concerto a sei stromenti (1727)

Michele Mascitti (1664-1760) - Concerto a sei stromenti des 'IV Concerti a sei stromenti, due violini e basso del concertino e un violino, alto viola, col basso di ripieno ... opera settima, libro secondo' (1727)

Performers: Camerata Anxаnum

Drawing: Jacques Rigaud (1681-1754) - Gezicht op het Palais du Luxembourg te Parijs (1729)

Further info: Michele Mascitti (1664-1760)

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Michele (Michel, Miquel) Mascitti [Masciti]

(Chieti, nr Naples, 1664 - Paris, 24 April 1760)

Italian composer and violinist. He was a pupil of his uncle Pietro Marchitelli, a violinist in the Naples royal chapel. After travels throughout Europe, he settled in Paris in 1704. He soon attracted the attention of the Duke of Orléans and through him gained the opportunity to play before the king, the dauphin and the whole court. He became a figurehead of Italian instrumental music in France and was regarded as the peer of Arcangelo Corelli and Tomaso Albinoni. Possessing the advantage over his fellow-nationals of residence in Paris, where all nine of his published collections were first issued between 1704 and 1738, he enjoyed enormous popularity with the French public. In 1739 he became a French citizen by naturalization. All of his 116 printed works are for strings; 100 are solo sonatas, 12 are trio sonatas, and four are concertos of rather Corellian design.

REINAGLE, Alexander (1756-1809) - Miscellaneous Overture

Alexander Reinagle (1756-1809) - Miscellaneous Overture in D Major

Performers: Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä; Patrick Gallois (conductor)

Drawing: Louis Garneray (1783-1857) - Vue du port de Philadelphie

Further info: Alexander Reinagle (1756-1809) - Sonata No.1 (c.1790)

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Alexander Reinagle

(Portsmouth, bap. 23 April 1756 - Baltimore, 21 September 1809)

English teacher and composer. Son of Joseph Reinagle (?-c.1775), a German immigrant, he received his earliest musical education from his father and Raynor Taylor, musical director of the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh where Reinagle made his first known public appearance on 9 April 1770. Although trained as a merchant, he was active in the concert life of Edinburgh, publishing his first works there during the 1770s. On 23 October 1784, he accompanied his brother Hugh Reinagle (1759-1785) to Portugal. On 8 January 1785 he appeared in a public concert and a week later performed for the royal family. After his brother's death, he returned to England and became a member of the Royal Society of Musicians in London. In 1786 he moved to New York, where he was active as a teacher, and two months later he settled in Philadelphia, where he wrote operas for the New Chestnut Street theatre, becoming one of the leading musicians in the city. From 1790 he was a partner with the English actor Thomas Wignell and Wignell’s successors in a theatrical company operating in Philadelphia and Baltimore. In his 15 years with the company he composed or arranged music for hundreds of productions, the extent of his responsibility ranging from a single incidental song to a completely new score, or the orchestration of an existing score. In 1803 he moved to Baltimore to take over the direction of the Holliday Street theatre. As a composer, his works include 25 operas, three medley overtures, four keyboard sonatas, as well as various marches and dance tunes. He also wrote several cantatas, odes, and dirges, such as the Monody on the Death of George Washington of 1799. His music is characterized by its use of Scottish tunes, as well as a good foundation in melody and harmony. As a teacher, his pupils included Nellie Custis, the granddaughter of George Washington, with whom he was on friendly terms. His younger brother Joseph Reinagle Jr. (1762-1825) was also a composer.