Jiří Družecký (1745-1819) - Sinfonia concertante for Oboe, Timpani and Orchestra
Performers: Gernot Schmalfuss (oboè); Peter Sadlo (1962-2016, timpani);
Bamberger Symphoniker; Hans Stadlmair (1929-2019, conductor)
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Bohemian composer. He studied the oboe with Besozzi in Dresden, then
became a grenadier in the 50th Infantry regiment, apparently joining it
at Eger in 1762; the regiment was later at Vienna (from 1763), Enns
(1764), Linz (c.1771) and Braunau (1775). From 1768 to 1775 Druschetzky
was a regimental musician and towards the end of his service a
Kapellmeister. His first known composition is a Symphony in G dated 1770
in Linz, where he also published a Concertino in G for harpsichord by
F.X. Dušek. On 15 April 1777 he became a bestallter Landschaftspauker
(‘certified regional drummer’) in the public service of Upper Austria,
conducting the musical performances on official occasions in Linz. In
about 1783 he may have moved to Vienna, where he was a member of the
Tonkünstler-Societät. In 1786 or 1787 he entered the service of Count
Anton Grassalkovics at Pressburg (Bratislava), where he directed and
provided music for the wind band. Following the count’s death in 1794 he
was employed by Cardinal Battyány in Pest at his country estate at
Rechnitz. By 1802 he was music director and composer for the wind octet
of Archduke Joseph Anton Johann in Budapest, city where he died in 1819.
Much of Druschetzky’s output consists of Harmoniemusik. His musical
language is slightly anachronistic, employing an early Classical style.
His music displays a competent, if undistinguished, response to melody
and harmony and his forms are short and devoid of melodic extension. His
textures, however, often feature unusual sonorities and daring
concertante passages, especially for wind instruments. The second
movement of the fourth of his last six oboe quartets (in H-Bn) contains
an early use of the B–A–C–H motif.
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