Johann Georg Knechtel (1710-1773)
- Concerto ex D dur: Cornu concertato,
Violino primo, Violino secundo, Viola, Basso, IJK 1, Lund 10
Performers: Barry Tuckwell (1931-2020, horn); Academy of St Martin in the Fields; Iona Brown (1941-2004, conductor)
Further info: Baroque Horn Concerti
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Bohemian cellist, horn player and composer. Almost nothing is known
about his life. He was active as horn player at the Dresden court
orchestra from 1734 to 1756 and as a cellist there from 1756 to 1773. He
wrote one concerto for horn in D (also found in a version for viola in
E) and has another concerto in E attributed to him in the same
collection. These works, show him to have been a master of the high
(so-called clarino) register. Thus Knechtel developed the tradition of
virtuoso first horn players in Dresden in the first half of the 18th
century (others there during the period included Johann Adalbert Fischer
and J.A. Schindler) whilst expanding upon this tradition through his
skill in the performance of quick chordal figures and large leaps in a
quasi-violinistic idiom. Knechtel is also thought to have composed
several symphonies an a set of 12 ‘Menuets et Polonaises’ (1755).
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