Louis Massonneau (1766-1848)
- Sinfonie (c-moll) à grand orchestre 'La tempête et le calme'
... œuvre 5me (1794)
Performers: Mеcklеnburg-Schwеriner Hofkapelle; Ivаn Törzs (conductor)
Further info: Musik der Mecklenburg-Schweriner Hofkapelle
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German violinist, composer and conductor of French descent. He was a son
of a French chef cuisinier at the Kassel court; there he studied the
violin with the Kapellmeister Jacques Heuzé and composition with the
violinist Joseph-Karl Rodewald. In 1783 he became a violinist and viola
d'amore player in the Hofkapelle of Landgrave Frederick II. In 1785,
after the death of the landgrave, he moved to Göttingen to become first
violinist at the Academic Concerts, under the direction of Johann
Nikolaus Forkel. In 1795 he was appointed conductor at Frankfurt, two
years later he occupied the same post at the new theatre in Altona and
in 1799 he was conductor of the prince's chapel at Dessau. In April
1803, he settled in Ludwigslust, as assistant to the Kapellmeister
Eligio Celestino. When Celestino died on 24 January 1812, he assumed the
roles of orchestral conductor and Kapellmeister until his retirement in
1837. As a composer, he wrote three symphonies, several concertos, and
many chamber music as well as sacred and secular music. His music shows
familiarity with the violinistic idiom, fine feeling for orchestral
sonority and gift for lyricism.
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