Peter von Winter (1754-1825) - Concertino (Es Dur) per il Clarinetto e Violoncello
Performers: Irène Güdel (cello); Jost Michaels (1922-2004, clarinet);
Chamber Orchestra Of The Sarre; Karl Ristenpart (1900-1967, conductor)
Drawing: Gustav Seeberger (1812-1888) - Ansicht von München über die Isar bei einsetzender Abenddämmerung
Further info: Peter von Winter (1754-1825) - Deutsches Te Deum
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German composer. He was a pupil of several of the Mannheim court
musicians before took over a post of violinist in the Electoral
orchestra at the age of 10. He was given permanent employment there in
1776. He later studied with Abbe Vogler, then went with the court to
Munich in 1778 and became director of the Court Orchestra. In 1787 he
was named court Vice-Kapellmeister and in 1798 court Kapellmeister. In
1814 he received a title of nobility from the court for his long
service. In Munich he brought out a number of operas, of which the most
important were Helena und Paris (1782), Der Bettelstudent oder Das
Donnerwetter (1785), Der Sturm (1798), Marie von Montalban (1800), and
Colmal (1809). Frequent leaves of absence from Munich enabled him to
travel; in Venice he produced his operas Catone in Utica (1791), I
sacrifizi di Creta ossia Ariannae Teseo (1792), I Fratelli rivali
(1793), and Belisa ossia La fedelita riconosciuta (1794). In Prague he
produced the opera Ogus ossia Il trionfo del belsesso (1795). In Vienna
he brought out Das unterbrochene Opferfest (1796; his most successful
opera; produced all over Europe), Babylons Pyramiden (1797), and Das
Labirint oder Der Kampfmit den Elementen (1798). In Paris he produced
his only French opera, Tamerlan (1802), in London the Italian operas
Lagrotta di Calipso (1803), II trionfo dell'amor fraterno (1804), Il
ratto di Proserpina (1804), and Zaira (1805). In 1816 he embarked on a
concert tour of northern Germany and Italy with his pupil Clara
Metzger-Vespermann, later a celebrated singer, during the course of
which he directed three of his operas in Milan in 1817 and 1818. His
last opera for Munich was the Singspiel Der Sänger und der Schneider
(1820), but he remained active until his last years as a composer of
church music. As a composer, he also wrote several ballets, oratorios
and sacred cantatas for the Munich court chapel, 28 masses and a vast
amount of other church music, 4 symphones (including the grand choral
sym. Die Schlacht, 1814), overtures, concertos and other concerted
works, and much chamber music.
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