KOZELUH, Leopold (1747-1818) - Simphonie à grand orchestre (1787)

Leopold Koželuh (1747-1818) - Simphonie (Sol mineur) à grand orchestre ... oeuvre 22 (1787)

Performers: Collеgium 1704; Václav Lսks (conductor)

Drawing: Dirk Langendijk (1748-1805) - Battle Scene with Church at right (c.1795)

Further info: Leopold Kozeluch (1747-1818) - Piano concerto B-Dur (c.1786)

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(Jan Antonín) Leopold (Leopoldo) Koželuh [Kozeluch, Kotzeluch, Goscheloch et al.]

(Velvary, 26 June 1747 - Vienna, 7 May 1818)

Bohemian composer, pianist, music teacher and publisher. His earliest musical education was under Antonín Kubík and his cousin Jan Antonín Koželuh 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 (1738-1814), 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, although in 1792 he was named as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s successor as Kapellmeister in Prague, a position that did not require residence. 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.

SCHEIBL, Johann Adam (1710-1773) - Concerto ex C a Clavi Cembalo

Johann Adam Scheibl (1710-1773) - Concerto Ex c | a | Clavi Cembalo | Violino Primo | Violino Secondo |

Clarino Primo | Clarino Secondo [accolada: ad lib] | e | Baʃso

Performers: MiIko Bіzjаk (cembalo); Gertraud Gаmеrith (violin); Aninka Hаrms (violin); Alojz Mordеj (violoncello)

Painting: Pietro Longhi (1701-1785) - La trattativa

Further info: Johann Adam Scheibl (1710-1773) - Parttitta in C

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Johann Adam Scheibl [Scheibel]

(Spital am Pyhrn, 18 November 1710 - St. Pölten, 31 December 1773)

Austrian organist and composer. He was born in Spital am Pyhrn as the son of a collegiate conductor and received his first music lessons from his father. From 1734 to 1737 he served as organist at the Benedictine monastery in Seitenstetten and later was appointed organist and choirmaster at the Augustinian canons in St. Pölten, which was later repealed under Joseph II. Occasionally, he also was commissioned by the Piarists. As a composer, he wrote at least 22 masses, three requiems, numerous smaller church pieces, ballets, symphonies, divertimenti as well as several concertos and keyboard parthien.

ABOS, Girolamo (1715-1760) - Magnificat à 4:o Concertato con Strum.ti

Girolamo Abos (1715-1760) - Magnificat à 4:o Concertato con Strum.ti

Performers: Zoe Brown (soprano); Myriam Arbouz (alto); George Pooley (tenor); Mauro Borgioni (bass);

Die Kölner Akademie; Michael Alexander Willens (conductor)

Painting: Joseph Kenhelm (18th Century) - View of the Grand harbour, Valetta, Malta

Further info: Girolamo Abos (1715-1760) - Messa a due cori (1756)

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Girolamo (Matteo) Abos [Abbos, Abosso, Avos, Avossa, Avosso, D'Avossa, Habos]

(Valetta, 16 November 1715 - Naples, October 1760)

Maltese composer and teacher. Born into a musical family, his grandfather, who was French, settled in Malta in 1661. Girolamo Abos was sent to Naples at the age of 14 to study at the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù under Gaetano Greco, Francesco Durante and Gerolimo Ferrara. His first opera for Naples was 'Le due zingare simili', an opera buffa staged at the Teatro Nuovo in 1742. The same year he was appointed deputy to maestro di cappella Ignazio Prota at the Conservatorio di Sant’Onofrio a Porta Capuana in a post he held until his death. On 29 May 1752 he married Angela Maria Gauttier, by whom he had two children. In 1754 he also became secondo maestro at the conservatory Pietà dei Turchini, but retired from the post on 11 July 1759 and was succeeded by Pasquale Cafaro. He also occasionally served as maestro di cappella at several important Neapolitan churches. As a composer, he wrote at least 16 operas (mostly seria), many of which were performed internationally. In addition he composed at least one symphony (1735) and numerous sacred works, among which the Stabat mater (1758) is the best known. He was not related to the composer active in Naples, Giuseppe Avossa (1708-1796), despite some mistaken attributions exist among manuscript copies.

HUMMEL, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837) - Concerto a Trombe Principale

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) - Concerto (Es-Dur) a Trombe Principale (1803), IJH 100

Performers: Ludwig Güttlеr (trumpet); Kammerorchester Bеrlin; Max Pommеr (conductor)

Painting: Johann Peter Krafft (1780-1856) - Der Einzug von Kaiser Franz I. in Wien nach dem Pariser Frieden

Further info: Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) - Messe Nr. 2 in Es à 4 Voci (1804)

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Johann (Johannes, Jean, John) Nepomuk Hummel [Humel]

(Pressburg [now Bratislava], 14 November 1778 - Weimar, 17 October 1837)

Slovakian-Austrian composer, teacher and pianist. He was son of Johannes Hummel (1754-1828), director of the Imperial School of Military Music in Vienna, and Margarethe Sommer (1751-1837). Recognized as a child prodigy, he began musical instruction from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1786 when his family moved to Vienna. Making his debut a year later, he was so proficient that in 1788 Mozart recommended that he be taken on tour of Germany and Denmark. By 1790 he and his family were in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he took on pupils for a short time, and in 1792 he made his debut at the Hannover Square Rooms in London. He returned to Vienna in 1795, where he studied organ under Joseph Haydn, composition under Antonio Salieri, and counterpoint under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger. During this period he began a long and often stormy friendship with Ludwig van Beethoven, whom Hummel considered a superior performer and composer, often lending him an inferiority complex. In 1804, he became Konzertmeister at the Esterházy estate in Eisenstadt, a position that was problematic enough that in 1811 he resigned and turned to private teaching. In 1816 he obtained the position as court Kapellmeister in Stuttgart but left after only a year to take up a similar post in Weimar. In 1832, at the age of 54 and in failing health, he began to devote less energy to his duties as music director at Weimar. He was in partial retirement until his death in 1837. As a composer, although his music displays redolent Classical form and structure, the advanced harmonies and expanded forms more properly belong to the Romantic period, with the bulk of his music being written after 1800. His output embraced virtually all the genres and performing media common at the turn of the century: operas, Singspiele, symphonic masses and other sacred works, occasional pieces, chamber music, songs and concertos and solo piano music, as well as many arrangements. He was considered in his time to be one of Europe's greatest composers and perhaps its greatest pianist. Despite his great success, he seems to have remained fundamentally a warm and simple person. His son Eduard Hummel (1814-c.1875) was also a composer active in Augsburg. 

BRANDL, Johann Evangelist (1760-1837) - Te Deum Laudamus

Johann Evangelist Brandl (1760-1837) - Te Deum Laudamus | a Piu | Stromenti

Performers: Ruth Dobers (soprano); Marion Egner (alto); Marcus Elsässer (tenor); Joachim Herrmann (bass);

Chor der Hofkirche Bruchsal; Bruchsaler Hofkapelle; Dominik Axtmann (conductor)

Painting: Ludwig Halauska (1827-1892) - A View of Klosterneuburg Monastery (1873)

Further info: Brandl - Piano Quintet, Op.63 (1798)

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Johann (Iohann) Evangelist (Evangeliste) Brandl [Brandel, Branden, Prandl]

(Kloster Rohr, 14 November 1760 - Karlsruhe, 25 May 1837)

German violinist and composer. Following early musical training, probably at Regensburg, he was appointed as Kapellmeister at Bartelstein in 1784, five years later moving to Bruchsal. Intermittent temporary appointments in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart occurred until 1805, when he moved to Karlsruhe as Kapellmeister and director of the town theatre along with Franz Danzi. He remained there until his death in 1837. As a composer, he was concerned with the infusion of drama into musical settings. His monodrama 'Hero und Leander' attempts to provide a lush orchestral setting for the Greek tale. His other works include five operas, over 50 Lieder, 60 Masses, numerous smaller church works (hymns and litanies), nine symphonies, 20 string quintets (and several others with winds), five concertos, three sextets, and two serenades, as well as six string quartets and numerous concert arias.