Antonín Vranický (1761-1820)
- Concerto pour deux Violes (1805)
Performers: Jan Pěruška (viola); Jaroslav Pondělíček (viola); Komorní
orchestr členů České filharmonie;
Andreas Sebastian Weiser (conductor)
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Moravian composer, violinist and music teacher. He attended the grammar
school at the Premonstratensian monastery in Nová Ríše and later studied
philosophy and law at a Jesuit seminary in Brno. His earliest musical
training included violin lessons from his brother Pavel Vranický
(1756-1808); he was also known for his beautiful voice. Before December
1783 he became choirmaster to the chapel of the Theresianisch-Savoyische
Akademie in Vienna (until the abolition of church music there with the
reforms of Joseph II). In Vienna he studied composition with Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, and
became renowned as a violin teacher and virtuoso. By 1790 he had entered
the services of Prince J.F. Maximilian Lobkowitz as a composer, music
teacher, Konzertmeister and (from 1797) Kapellmeister of the prince’s
private orchestra; in these duties he was active at Vienna, Prague and
the prince’s country seats in Bohemia (at Roudnice, Jezerí and Bílina).
After the prince took charge of the Vienna court theatres (1807) and
later sole direction of the opera, he appointed him orchestra director
of the court theatre, according to the obituary register, a post he held
until his death. From 1 August 1814 he was also the orchestra director
of the Theater an der Wien. He assisted the prince in leading the
Hoftheater-Musik-Verlag from 1812 to 1816 (see Weinmann). After the
prince’s death he remained in the service of his successor. As a
composer, his output almost entirely consists of instrumental
compositions. Chamber music prevails, which is connected with his
position of the chief conductor of the chateau music, but his legacy
also comprises at least 14 symphonies and the same number of violin
concertos, concertos for other string instruments, a number of minuets,
hunting marches and many other compositions.
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