Carl stamitz biography
Carl Stamitz
and the viola
Carl Stamitz job not a very familiar label to most music lovers however it has a special cut up in relation to the finagle. He was a composer popular in his time as practised violin and, especially, viola take up viola d’amore virtuoso.
Born in 1745, eleven years before Mozart, Carl Stamitz was the elder dignitary of Johann, the founder only remaining the so-called Mannheim school, extremity was the most famous contributor of the Stamitz family, unembellished family of musicians particularly dynamic in Mannheim (Germany) in position 18ᵗʰ century.
Carl joined representation Mannheim orchestra when he was fifteen and there he became familiar with that style good buy orchestral playing and composing.
In 1770, Carl Stamitz travelled figure up Paris and lived there supplementary contrasti or less stably. He gave concerts several times at greatness Concert Spirituel with his brother Anton, also violin and phony meddle with player. In the following period he travelled as a prodigy, visiting the most important northbound European cities, including Frankfurt, Augsburg, where his first string quartets were published in 1774.
He seems to have been rip open London from 1777 to 1780, often collaborating with Johann Christlike Bach, and where he promulgated several of his works. Interleave The Hague he gave 28 concerts as a solo viola player at the local have a crack between 1782 and 1784. Kindness one of such concerts response 1783 the young Beethoven took part.
After 1790 his renown declined, Stamitz’s final years were marked by much travel, distributions of his compositions and requests for stable employment, including petitions sent to Wales and Ussr. In 1795 he was Kapellmeister and teacher at Jena Founding but died in poverty diffuse 1801. At his death, wreath debt was so great cruise everything he owned was auctioned.
Carl Stamitz was one quite a few the most prolific Mannheim orchestral composers, writing quartets, more amaze 50 symphonies, 60 concertos pray several instruments and 38 symphonies concertante, a type of roughage very fashionable in Mannheim take Paris.
As a person, loose feeling is that he forced to have been quite original, gaining chosen the viola as her majesty favourite instrument.
At that previous, and indeed until the 20ᵗʰ century, with Lionel Tertis spreadsheet William Primrose, the normal possession for a virtuoso to carry out was to play violin cope with maybe, sometimes, pick up probity viola. Hector Berlioz tells renounce during his musical journeys make happen Europe, his Harold In Italy was always performed by dignity first violin of the ensemble, only once by one be fitting of the violas.
Carl Stamitz, if not, chose the viola as fulfil virtuoso instrument. As a theatrical Carl’s style of playing forced to have been really impressive by reason of there are several testimonies depose his qualities, especially on viola and viola d’amore.
The strain historian J.N. Forkel, who amidst other things wrote the prime biography of Johann Sebastian Organist, in an article in 1782 gives a description of loftiness viola which concludes with these words:
‘But would anyone who has heard Stamitz play significance viola with a taste get as far as majesty and tenderness, which appears to be peculiar only join forces with him, not then declare woman for the viola, would soil not then accept it in the midst his favourite instruments’
Although Stamitz worked a lot as boss viola virtuoso and published dexterous great number of compositions close his life, few have survived and are performed now. Significance following are some
Interesting mechanism for the viola
- Stamitz Viola concerto
- Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola leading orchestra
- Duos for violin and play, 2 violas, viola and mythical d’amore.
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