Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (1766-1839)
- Concerto in B [per] fagotho [!] principale (1802)
(live recording, piano reduction)
Performers: Kevin Sleno (bassoon); Stephanie Mara (piano)
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Austrian composer and conductor. He was a pupil of Joseph Haydn and from
1784 worked first as a violinist in the Esterházy chapel, then as a
music teacher in the princely family and finally advanced to
vice-director and, after Haydn's death in 1809, to court conductor. He
worked in this capacity until his death. Fuchs composed instrumental
works and chamber music, operas, but he mainly was praised as a sacred
music composer. He was considered one of the most important composers of
church music of his time. His works include 28 masses (among them the
Missa Solenni in E dur), 51 offertories and graduals, 31 litanies and
Vespers, 62 Salve Regina, 20 operas (among them Der Feldtrompeter), two
overtures, three symphonies, serenatas, a bassoon concerto (1802) and 15
quartets for male voices. Fuchs must not be confused with the Austrian
composer and conductor Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (1842-1899) of the same
name.
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