Peter Josef von Lindpaintner (1791-1856)
- 2te Sinfonie Concertante ... Op.44 (c.1824)
Performers: Aulos Bläserquintett; Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart; Bernhard Güller (conductor)
Further info: Sinfonia Concertante
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German conductor and composer. Son of a tenor active at the court of the
Bishop-Elector of Trier, as a small child accompanied the court into
exile in Augsburg after the French secularization of Trier. In 1806 he
settled in Munich to study composition with Peter Winter. There he wrote
the first opera, 'Demophoon' (1811), successfully performed in Munich.
The following year he became music director at the Isartortheater, and
over the next six years produced another eight operas, of which the most
successful were 'Der blinde Gärtner' (c.1813), 'Die Sternkönigin'
(1815), 'Pervonte' (1816) and 'Die Rosenmädchen' (1818). After his opera
success he resumed the study of composition with the contrapuntist
Joseph Graetz. In 1819 he took over the post of Kapellmeister in
Stuttgart, in a position he held for the rest of his life. He was
praised as one of the finest German conductors and continued to compose
assiduously for the stage. He also enjoyed a reputation as a composer of
lieder, sacred music and instrumental works. His songs, particularly
'Die Fahenwacht' and 'Roland', were widely popular; among his sacred
music, which included cantatas, masses and psalms, the oratorio 'Der
Jüngling von Nain' held a high place. His concertos and concertinos were
notably successful, especially the two concertante symphonies for five
wind instruments and orchestra. His achievements were acknowledged by
the bestowal of the aristocratic ‘von’ in 1844, but in his later years
his reputation as a composer declined. In 1854 Hans von Bülow castigated
‘the supreme impropriety of the pretensions with which Kapellmeister
Lindpaintner now represents himself as the old master of the departing
epoch, forgetting that Spohr alone can bear this honour’.
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