Antonio Casimir Cartellieri (1772-1807)
- Symphonie (c-moll) à grande orchestre (1793)
Performers: Evergreen Symphony Orchestra; Gernot Schmalfuss (conductor)
Painting: Franz Scheyerer (1762-1839) - Die Spinnerin am Kreuz mit Aussicht gegen das Mödlinger Gebirge (1831)
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Polish violinist and composer. He was born into a musical family with
his father, the tenor Antonio Maria Gaetano, and his mother, the singer
Elisabeth Böhm. From them, he received his early musical training, later
following his mother to Berlin when his parents divorced in 1785. After
several difficult years, he emerged in 1791 as music director and court
composer to Count Oborsky, and in his company he divided his time
between the count’s Polish estates and cities such as Berlin and Vienna.
On a visit to the latter, he studied with Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
and Antonio Salieri, as well as becoming a close friend of Ludwig van
Beethoven. At a concert in 1795, he so impressed Prince Joseph Franz
Maximilian Lobkowitz that he was invited to become a teacher and
violinist in Bohemia, where he spent the remainder of his life. In 1800
he married Franziska Kraft, whose father Anton gave Joseph Haydn’s
well-known cello concerto its première. Unlike his parents, Cartellieri
had a happy marriage which produced three sons, including Joseph
Cartellieri (1803-1870) who succeeded to his father’s post with
Lobkowitz. Antonio Casimir Cartellieri died of a heart attack at the age
of 35. As a composer, his works include seven operas, two monodramas or
dialogues, three oratorios, 11 Masses, three symphonies, five
concertos, three wind partitas, and numerous other smaller sacred works.
Cartellieri’s music is characterized by a good sense of orchestral
color, as well as progressive harmony.
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