Anna Amalia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1739-1807)
- Divertimento in B-Dur (c.1780)
Performers: Luigi Mаgistrеlli (clarinet); Claudia Brаccο (piano); Enrico Grοppο (viola); Anna Sofia Grοppο (cello)
Further info: Le Repertoire Pour Clarinette De Compositrices
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German princess and composer. She became the duchess of
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach by marriage, and was also regent of the states of
Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach from 1758 to 1775. She transformed her
court and its surrounding into the most influential cultural center of
Germany. As a patron of the arts, Anna Amalia drew many of the most
eminent people in Germany to Weimar, including Johann Gottfried Herder,
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller and Abel Seyler‘s
theatrical company. When she succeeded in engaging the Seyler Company,
this was “an extremely fortunate coup. The Seyler Company was the best
theatre company in Germany at that time.” Amalia von Helvig was also
later to be a part of her court. She hired Christoph Martin Wieland, a
poet and translator of William Shakespeare, to educate her son. She also
established the Duchess Anna Amalia Library, which is now home to some
1,000,000 volumes. The duchess was honoured in Goethe’s work under the
title Zum Andenken der Fürstin Anna-Amalia. Anna Amalia was a notable
composer who studied harpsichord and piano with Gottlieb Hayne, and
counterpoint with Johann Philipp Kirnberger. She also studied music with
Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer and Ernst Wilhelm Wolf. Among her
compositions is a divertimento for clarinet, viola, cello, and piano,
composed in 1780.
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