VANDINI, Antonio (c.1690-1778) - Concerto in Re maggiore

Antonio Vandini (c.1690-1778) - Concerto (violoncello) in Re maggiore

Performers: Francesco Fеrrаrini (violoncello); Nuova Orchestra Fеrruccio Busοni; Massimo Bеlli (conductor)

Painting: Giovanni Antonio Canal 'Canaletto' (1697-1768) - Padua, A View of the Porta di Pontecorvo

Further info: Antonio Vandini (c.1690-1778) - Sonate per violoncello

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Antonio Vandini

(Bologna, c.1690 - Bologna, 1778)

Italian cellist and composer. Nothing is known about his early life or musical training. His first documented playing position is at the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo which he obtained in April of 1720. He was also at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice as maestro di violoncello from September 1720 to April 1721. On 9 June 1721 he was appointed cellist at the Paduan Basilica di Sant'Antonio in a post he held the rest of his life, only interrupted on 18 June 1722, when he resigned in order to go to Prague. There he participated in the musical celebrations for the coronation of Karl VI in June 1723; he was joined there by Giuseppe Tartini and together remained in the service of Count Ferdinand Francesco Kinsky until spring 1726. This year he returned, together with Tartini, to Padua, resuming his service at the Basilica di Sant'Antonio on 1 June 1726. He retired from service at Padua in June 1770, probably been succeded by his pupil Giuseppe Callegari. By 1776 he was in Bologna, where he died two years later. As a composer, he left a cello concerto and six cello sonatas (1717).

MAICHELBECK, Franz Anton (1702-1750) - Missa Sanctissimae Matris Scholasticae (1734)

Franz Anton Maichelbeck (1702-1750) - Missa | Sanctissimae Matris Scholasticae | à | Canto et Alto Concert. | Tenor et Basso concertant. | 2 Violinis Concert. | 2 Cornibus Ex D|# Concert. | Cũ | Duplici Organo (1734)

Performers: Münsterschola Insel Reichenau; Münsterchor und Münsterorchester Insel Reichenau;

Klaus Paul (conductor)

Painting: Johann Heinrich Bleuler (1787-1857) - View of the island of Mainau in Lake Constance

Further info: Franz Anton Maichelbeck (1702-1750) - Sonata a quattro

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Franz Anton (Franciscum Antonium) Maichelbeck [Maichelböck, Maichlböck, Meichelpeck]

(Konstanz, 6 July 1702 - Freiburg, 14 June 1750)

German composer. He was the son of Sebastian Maichelbeck and Anna Maria Koch. In 1721 he was a student of theology at the university of Freiburg, but in 1725 he went to Rome to study sacred music. Two years later he returned to Freiburg, where he became an organist at a local church and in 1730 professor of Italian at the university. He was reputed to have been a learned humanist. His obituary describes him as a very learned man of music, highly esteemed by his contemporaries. As a composer, only few works are extant, the most praised of them, his 'Die auf dem Clavier spielende und das Gehör vergnügende Caecilia ... op.I' (1736) which includes a collection of keyboard sonatas as study pieces and focused to amateur keyboard players. He also left several sacred works, among them, a Requiem in D-Dur and the Missa Sanctissimae Matris Scholasticae (1734).

RADEKER, Henricus (1708-1774) - Sonate [c] voor Orgel en Clavicimbel

Henricus Radeker (1708-1774) - Sonate [c] voor Orgel en Clavicimbel

Performers: Gert Oost (1942-2009, organ); Jaap Spigt (1923-1999, harpsichord)

Drawing: Pieter Hermanus Luitjes van der Meulen (1780-1858) - Gezicht op Haarlem vanuit Overveen

Further info: Het Nieuwe Hollands Speelhuys

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Henricus (Henrik, Henrico) Radeker

(Groningen, 27 March 1708 - Haarlem, 5 July 1774)

Dutch organist and composer. Son of Jannes Radeker and Fennigien Radekers, he went to live at Leeuwarden in 1724 and was appointed organist at the Lutheran church there. In 1729 he was made organist of the Grotekerk (St Michael) in Zwolle, and in 1734 of the Grotekerk (St Bavo) in Haarlem, where he was the first to play the large organ completed by Christian Müller in 1738. He was in demand as an inspector of organs in the Netherlands, and he also directed the collegium musicum in Haarlem. He remained there for the rest of his life, where he got married twice, in 1741 with Anna Catharina Schats with whom had a son, the organist and composer Jan Radeker (1738-1799), and in 1753 with Hendrina Reynders. As a composer, Henricus Radeker published in Amsterdam a capriccio, a concerto for keyboard and two sonatas for harpsichord with obbligato violin as well as a 'Psalm Boek voor Orgel en Clavicimbel en andre instrumenten'.

DAQUIN, Louis Claude (1694-1772) - Deuxième Suite (1735)

Louis Claude Daquin (1694-1772) - Deuxième Suite des Livre de pièces de clavecin (1735)

Performers: Anne Robеrt (clavecin)

Painting: Louis de Boullogne (1654-1733) - Rinaldo and Armida

Further info: Louis Claude Daquin (1694-1772) - Nouveau Livre de Noëls

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Louis-Claude Daquin [Dacquin, D'Acquin, D'Aquin]

(Paris, 4 July 1694 - Paris, 15 June 1772)

French organist and composer. He was the son of Claude Daquin and Anne Treisant. After taking some harpsichord lessons from his godmother Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, and composition lessons from Nicolas Bernier, he was capable of playing before Louis XIV at the age of six and of conducting his own 'Beatus vir' in the Sainte-Chapelle at the age of eight. In 1706 he was appointed organist at the convent of Petit St Antoine. On 12 July 1722 he married Denise-Thérèse Quirot; they had only one child, Pierre-Louis D'Aquin de Châteaulion (c.1722-1797), whose 'Lettres sur les hommes celebres, dans les sciences, la littérature et les beaux arts: Sous Le Regne de Louis XV' trace the brilliant career of a father greatly admired by Parisian society. In that time Louis-Claude Daquin was ordinaire de la musique to Louis-Armand II de Bourbon, the Prince de Conti, and he probably remained in that position until 1727. He gained the post of organist at St Paul on 28 April 1727, in competition with Jean-Philippe Rameau, and in 1732 succeeded his former teacher Louis Marchand as organist of the Cordeliers. In 1739 he was appointed to succeed Jean-François Dandrieu as organist of the Chapelle Royale. On the death of Antoine Calvière in 1755 he also obtained one of the four positions of organist at Notre Dame. Besides holding these glittering appointments as organist, Daquin several times played the organ in the Palais des Tuileries (the home of the Concert Spirituel), performing there in 1749 and between 1751 and 1754. In 1770 he resigned from his post at the Chapelle Royale in favour of Armand-Louis Couperin. As a composer, his most praised work was the 'Livre de pièces de clavecin' (1735), but he also left, among others, a collection of 'Noels pour Torgue ou le clavecin' and the cantata 'La Rose' (1762).

MOREIRA, António Leal (1758-1819) - Sinfonia em Re Maior (1805)

António Leal Moreira (1758-1819) - Sinfonia em Re Maior (1805)

Performers: Orquestra Clássica do Porto; Meir Minsky (conductor)

Drawing: Matthew Dubourg (fl. 1786-1838) - A view of Lisbon and the Harbour (1809)

Further info: Orchestral music

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António Leal (Lial) Moreira

(Abrantes, 30 June 1758 - Lisbon, 26 November 1819)

Portuguese composer. On 30 June 1766 he entered the Seminary of the Patriarchal of Lisbon, where he was student of João de Sousa Carvalho. In 1775 he became assistant to his teacher and organist and in 1787 he was appointed chapel master. On 19 May 1777, he performed his first sacred work, the Missa do Espírito Santo, which was sung during the acclamation of Queen Maria I of Portugal. Most of his sacred works were composed for the royal chapel and from 1782 onwards serenatas by Moreira were performed at the royal palaces of Queluz and Ajuda. In 1790 he was appointed musical director at the Teatro de Rua dos Condes, which was presenting Italian operas. In 1793 he became the first musical director of the newly opened Teatro de São Carlos, where some of his own operas and farces on Portuguese texts, including A vingança da cigana (1794), were performed. In 1799 he left the São Carlos, where he was replaced by Marcos António Portugal and Francesco Federici. In the following year he wrote the music for the pasticcio opera 'Il disertore francese', which was performed at the Teatro Carignano in Turin and at La Scala. From then on he devoted himself almost exclusively to church music. Later he had a brief but distinguished military career during the Peninsular Wars. As a composer, he left 14 operas, 4 masses, sacred pieces and songs as well as symphonic and chamber works.