[Sheet music] Ferdinand Staes (1748-1809) - Sonate II, Op.4

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Composer: Ferdinand Staes (1748-1809)
Work: Sonate II, Op.4
Software: Sibelius + Instruments samples
World Premiere: No
Real performance: https://open.spotify.com/album/3Rg59Xwik1vTMFZrx1J984
Sheet music (pdf): https://ks.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/1/1b/IMSLP129664-PMLP252857-Old_Flemish_masters_vol_2_18th_c_RSL.pdf
Sheet music (xml): https://www.mediafire.com/file/zctn0n0eruxd7ud/STAES-SonateII.xml/file
Info about sheet music recovering project: https://i.ibb.co/hML4xyJ/HAYDN-M-3.jpg

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Ferdinand(-Philippe-Joseph) Staes
(Brussels, bap. 16 December 1748 - Brussels, 23 March 1809)

Flemish harpsichordist, organist and composer. The son of Guillaume Staes, an organist at the Brussels royal chapel from 1758, he studied with his father and later with Ignaz Vitzthumb. As a harpsichordist he was accompanist at the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, by 1767 and the following year was appointed assistant to his father (second court organist at that time); he also took part in concerts de table at court and performed successfully at the concerts of the academy and Concert Bourgeois in 1771. In January 1772 he gained the reversion for his father’s post of principal court organist but (despite Fétis and later sources) he never filled this appointment, for his father was still active when the royal chapel was dissolved in 1794. By 1772 Staes was an organist at the Madeleine church, where Burney heard him and wrote that ‘the organ was played in a masterly manner, by M. Straze [sic], who is esteemed the best performer upon keyed instruments in Brussels’. Staes was a member of the masonic lodge ‘L’heureuse rencontre à l’Orient’, Brussels, by 1786, but does not seem to have written masonic music. His compositions include several keyboard works (mainly sonatas for the harpsichord or piano) with instrumental accompaniment. #ClassicalMusic