Robert Newman
Banned
Andrea Luchesi (1741-1801)
Symphony in D Major
c. 1775 ?
1st Movement
Largo/Adagio/Allegro Assai
Described by one writer on music as one of the ‘last frontiers’ of historical musical research are the real origins of music in Vienna during the late 18th century of which Haydn and Mozart are the most celebrated representatives. For example, there was of course a huge Italian contribution that stretched back to the early 18th century. Their contribution alone still awaits general recognition. So too that of numerous Bohemian and Czech composers whose names are today still little known. And, at that time, Italian teachers and Kapellmeisters were the norm in many posts in Germany and Austria. Italy and Italian based schools were unquestionably the very basis for much of this music. But this has tended to be obscured and downplayed over the past two centuries and more.
Andrea Luchesi is a case in point. He was a well known and hugely talented and important Italian composer and teacher of the late 18th century. Luchesi had been invited to be Kapellmeister at Bonn in Germany (a position he left Italy to continually occupy from 1771 and stayed there until final closure of the Bonn Hofkapelle in 1794 at the time of his retirement). He was as Kapellmeister the true composition teacher of the young Ludwig van Beethoven until Beethoven left for Vienna - a position often (and inaccurately) attributed in a few passing words to then court organist Ch. G. Neefe. Bonn chapel at this time was one of the most prestigious musical posts in all of Germany. The very name of Luchesi has been repeatedly overlooked by music biographers from the mid 19th century onwards until recent years due to loss of various conversation books of Beethoven on his early life and a string of other less excusable oversights by biographers though more is known of him and his career in recent years thanks to archive researchers such as Professors Giorgio Taboga, Luca Bianchini, Anna Trombetta and others in Italy.
Most of Luchesi’s music for this vital 20 year period of the late 18th century has either strangely disappeared or been wrongly attributed to others. (Mozart was offered this very same Kapellmeister post in Bonn by his friend the new incoming Elector of Bonn (Max Franz) but Luchesi did not wish to resign and had already married locally. In fact Luchesi remains one of the great unknowns of classical music biography. He's known to have written many works including symphonies, concertos and even a series of operas (all lost) and his musical ‘help’ to Mozart during the 1780’s is itself being increasingly well documented in recent years though it remains a highly controversial subject.
This particular symphony (first recorded in Italy only a few years ago) is one of few that survive from these Bonn years though publications of the late 18th century speak of Luchesi’s works (and in particular symphonies) being in big demand throughout Germany during the 1780’s.
http://www.mediafire.com/?yeumrnwizdz
http://216.239.59.132/search?q=cache:ZAha8GVE9WMJ:www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Luchesi-authorship-controversy+andrea+luchesi+symphony&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=19&gl=uk
27.7 mgb
Symphony in D Major
c. 1775 ?
1st Movement
Largo/Adagio/Allegro Assai
Described by one writer on music as one of the ‘last frontiers’ of historical musical research are the real origins of music in Vienna during the late 18th century of which Haydn and Mozart are the most celebrated representatives. For example, there was of course a huge Italian contribution that stretched back to the early 18th century. Their contribution alone still awaits general recognition. So too that of numerous Bohemian and Czech composers whose names are today still little known. And, at that time, Italian teachers and Kapellmeisters were the norm in many posts in Germany and Austria. Italy and Italian based schools were unquestionably the very basis for much of this music. But this has tended to be obscured and downplayed over the past two centuries and more.
Andrea Luchesi is a case in point. He was a well known and hugely talented and important Italian composer and teacher of the late 18th century. Luchesi had been invited to be Kapellmeister at Bonn in Germany (a position he left Italy to continually occupy from 1771 and stayed there until final closure of the Bonn Hofkapelle in 1794 at the time of his retirement). He was as Kapellmeister the true composition teacher of the young Ludwig van Beethoven until Beethoven left for Vienna - a position often (and inaccurately) attributed in a few passing words to then court organist Ch. G. Neefe. Bonn chapel at this time was one of the most prestigious musical posts in all of Germany. The very name of Luchesi has been repeatedly overlooked by music biographers from the mid 19th century onwards until recent years due to loss of various conversation books of Beethoven on his early life and a string of other less excusable oversights by biographers though more is known of him and his career in recent years thanks to archive researchers such as Professors Giorgio Taboga, Luca Bianchini, Anna Trombetta and others in Italy.
Most of Luchesi’s music for this vital 20 year period of the late 18th century has either strangely disappeared or been wrongly attributed to others. (Mozart was offered this very same Kapellmeister post in Bonn by his friend the new incoming Elector of Bonn (Max Franz) but Luchesi did not wish to resign and had already married locally. In fact Luchesi remains one of the great unknowns of classical music biography. He's known to have written many works including symphonies, concertos and even a series of operas (all lost) and his musical ‘help’ to Mozart during the 1780’s is itself being increasingly well documented in recent years though it remains a highly controversial subject.
This particular symphony (first recorded in Italy only a few years ago) is one of few that survive from these Bonn years though publications of the late 18th century speak of Luchesi’s works (and in particular symphonies) being in big demand throughout Germany during the 1780’s.
http://www.mediafire.com/?yeumrnwizdz
http://216.239.59.132/search?q=cache:ZAha8GVE9WMJ:www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Luchesi-authorship-controversy+andrea+luchesi+symphony&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=19&gl=uk
27.7 mgb
