František Adam Míča (1746-1811) - Symphony in E-flat Major (c.1770)
Performers: Tessarini Chamber Orchestra; Mirko Krebs (conductor)
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Moravian composer. He was the nephew of František Antonín Míča
(1694-1744). He studied music probably with his father Karel Antonín
Míča (1699-1784), a Kammerdiener (valet) and musician of Count
Questenberg at Jaroměřice, later a door-keeper and musician to the
imperial court at Vienna. After law studies at Vienna (completed 1767),
he became a government official there, and later in Styria (c.1786-96)
as well as in the Austrian provinces of Poland (from May 1796). He
devoted himself to music as an amateur, mostly while in Vienna (to
December 1785). He played several instruments, and his compositions
enjoyed considerable esteem, notably with W.A. Mozart and Emperor Joseph
II. His symphonies (of which the earliest manuscript is dated 1771) and
string quartets (manuscripts dated 1786) use the general expressive
techniques of the period. They consist of three or four movements, the
first two sometimes being reversed (slow–fast); the movements in sonata
form usually have two contrasting themes. A manuscript biography of
Míča, including a detailed though incomplete list of his works, is in
the library of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, and was
partly published in Veselý (1968).
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