That are ready for such an endeavor feasible best performers to make their art experience to interpret these 'lost and found' works new to revive, testifies to their commitment, enthusiasm, passion and enthusiasm. Chapeau!
Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Ludwig August Lebrun, Joseph Fiala, Jan Evangelista Antonín Koželuh Tomáš have their delight, they know about the re-discovery, they could hear Albrecht Mayer and the Potsdam Chamber Academy and enjoy:
01. Hoffmeister Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in C Major, 1. Allegro con brio
02. Hoffmeister Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in C Major, 2. Adagio
03. Hoffmeister Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in C Major, 3. Rondo Allegro
04. Lebrun Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra No. 2 in G minor, 1. Allegro
05. Lebrun Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra No. 2 in G minor, 2. Adagio
06. Lebrun Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra No. 2 in G minor, 3. Rondo Allegro
07. Fiala Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra in C Major, 1. Allegro moderato
08. Fiala Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra in C Major, 2. Adagio cantabile
09. Fiala Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra in C Major, 3. Allegro assai
10. Koželuh Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra F major, 1. Vivace
11. Koželuh Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra F major, 2. Adagio
12. Koželuh Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra F Major, 3. Rondo Allegretto
In the booklet Albrecht Mayer writes: "This wonderful project I would have without the help of some friends may not realize ..."
I would like to add: Maybe this very successful album is indeed the beginning of a fine, wonderful sounding, reviving music collection, which the oboe / oboe literature would all deserve to with great works (not only from the 'Mozart-time) serially to a fine series (Volume 1, 2, 3, 4 et seq. ...) to be. In this sense, thanks to everyone who contributed to it, please more of it!
For those interested:
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
(Born May 12, 1754 Rottenburg am Neckar, then Further Austria; February 9, 1812 in Vienna)
Grew up as the eighth of eleven children in Rottenburg, Franz Anton was 14 years old to Vienna, was to Jurassic and music studies organist, composer and publisher, published alongside his own works such by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, moved its famous' Sonata Pathetique op 13 'first. Beethoven called him 'brother in music', his friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose piano quartet KV 478, he moved first, Franz Anton greatly appreciated, asked him often to advance, gave him the 'Hoffmeister Quartet' KV 499, and Haydn, for he moved chamber music, could be called a 'stingy character' in a letter.
Hoffmeister was very active, he composed but in addition to his work as a publisher of nine operas, including 'The prince of Ithaca' (Text by Emanuel Schikaneder), continue about 70 symphonies, 42 string quartets, plenty of serenades, concertos, chamber music in all possible and for that time also unusual combinations, finally some secular and sacred music. Hoffmeister's 'Concerto for Viola and Orchestra in D Major' is still regarded as a compulsory piece for viola at the application match for commitments in professional orchestras, his works are part of the standard repertoire for flute player, clarinetist, but also for horn players, bassists and various chamber music ensembles.
Hoffmeister took the audience always greatest recognition as one of the most prolific composers artistic upstanding entertainment music of his time, the style of the 'gallant, sentimental' Rococo era accordingly.
Ludwig August Lebrun
(Born May 2, 1752 in Mannheim, December 16, 1790 in Berlin)
His father was an oboist, allegedly came from Belgium, came in 1747 at the Mannheim court of the Elector Karl Theodor. Ludwig August was the music in his blood, his oboe playing was laid him in the cradle, already in early youth a virtuoso, "charmed with his divine Oboe" (quote of a contemporary), appeared in 1764 just 12 years old as a celebrated oboist, joined with the court orchestra on, was in 1767 as a 15-year-old already full orchestra member. Ludwig August Lebrun was a contemporary of Carl Stamitz and Anton Stamitz, who belonged to the 'Mannheim school'.
Ludwig August Lebrun married in the summer of 1778 Franziska Danzi Dorothea, sister of Franz Danzi, one of the best singers of her time; both toured to Milan, Paris, London, Vienna, Prague, Naples, Munich, Berlin. Unique: The perfectly matched instrumental-vocal virtuosity of the couple, who paid tribute to many composers through arias with obbligato oboe tribute, such as Ignaz Holzbauer in 'Günther von Schwarzburg' (1777), Antonio Salieri in 'Europa riconosciuta' (1778) or Georg Joseph Vogler in 'Castore e Polluce' (1787).
Lebrun composed six concertos for oboe and orchestra: No. 1 in D minor, No. 2 in G minor, No. 3 in C major, No. 4 in B flat major, No. 5 in C major, No. 6 in F major...... (all six in 2002 played by Heinz Holliger, but currently as CD mW hardly unused available), a Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in B flat major, as well as duos for violin and viola, duets and trios for flute, as well as including the ballets 'Armida' and 'Adèle de Ponthieu'.
Joseph Fiala
(Born February 3, 1748 in Lochovice, Bohemia, July 31, 1816 in Donaueschingen)
He received an early training as an oboist and cellist, was after his flight (from a serfdom) from Bohemia in 1774 oboist in the chapel of Prince Ernst of Oettingen-Wallerstein. In 1777 he came to Munich Court Orchestra. There he became friends with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a lifelong friendship. Mozart pieces of Fiala: I must say that they are quite pretty; he has good Gedancken. Fiala in 1778 became a member of the Chapel of the Archbishop Hieronymus von Colloredo-Mansfeld, had to quit the game because of a lung condition oboes and then devoted himself more to play the cello, was principal cellist in 1784 the first Salzburg production of the 'Abduction from the Seraglio'. 1785 followed Fiala Mozart to Vienna, was then hired in St. Petersburg before finally in 1792 cello virtuoso at Prince Benedict to Fürstenberg in Donaueschingen.
His compositions include eight symphonies, a fair, div. Concertos for various instruments, as well as chamber music in different occupations.
January Evangelista Antonín Koželuh Tomáš
(Baptized 14 December 1738 in Welwarn; February 3, 1814 in Prague)
He studied at the Jesuit College of Brenitz and Josef Seger in Prague, then in Vienna with Christoph Willibald Gluck and Florian Leopold Gassmann, probably with Antonio Salieri. Finally he led in Prague at the Kreuzherrenkirche, from 1784 St. Veit a rather reclusive life as Director of Music, where he wrote, among other things 16 fairs, a requiem, an oratorio two operas and a oboe and a bassoon concerto.
Throughout his life he stood in the shadow of his cousin Leopold Antonín Koželuh who is actually, Jan Antonín was called, but called himself against confusion from 1773 to Leopold, he (Jan Evangelista Antonín Koželuh Tomáš) had taught temporarily - and with whom he still often is mistaken in trusses and work directories.
