György Ruzitska (1788-1869) - Sinfonie d-moll (1833)

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Composer: György Ruzitska (1788-1869)
Work: Sinfonie d-moll (1833)
Performers: Orchestra de Camerá Sfánta Cecilia; Potyó István (conductor)

Sinfonie d-moll (1833)
1. Allegro Appassionato 0:00
2. Andante 8:26
3. Scherzo 13:43
4. Finale 20:03

Painting: William Turner de Lond (fl. 1820-1837) - Fairground scene
Image in high resolution: https://flic.kr/p/2md6N8T

Further info: https://www.musiklexikon.ac.at/ml/musik_R/Ruschitzka_Familie.xml
Listen free: https://soundcloud.com/ceciliakorus/sets/ruzitska-gyorgy-sinfonie-in-d

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György Ruzitska
(Vienna, 10 February 1788 - Kolozsvár [now Cluj-Napoca], 2 December 1869)

Hungarian composer and teacher of Austrian birth. The son of Wenzel Ruzitska, an english horn player at the Burgtheater in Vienna, he began studying music at the age of ten, taking piano lessons with Wenzel Müller, the organ with Pater Placidus, and composition with Josef Gelinek in Vienna. In 1810 he travelled to Transylvania as a music teacher to the family of Baron János Bánffy, but in 1819 he moved to Kolozsvár, where he remained until his death. He soon became a prominent personality in the town’s musical life (in 1832, for instance, the young people of Kolozsvár organized a public demonstration against ‘the piano teacher Ruzitska’). In the 1830s he became friendly with Ferenc Erkel. Ruzitska conducted the New Society of Music in Kolozsvár until 1835 and again from 1837. His name is also associated with the reorganization of the conservatory; he was its director from 1835 until his death, and in 1838 he published a singing manual for the students. Among Ruzitska’s more notable works are his three-act opera Alonso, performed in Pest in 1829, and the overture Zrinyi (c.1830). In addition he wrote five masses, a requiem (1829, performed 1835), a Te Deum (1850), a symphony (1833), four string quartets and three string quintets. His Violin Sonata op.3 was published in Vienna in 1814, while the two Piano Trios op.4 and a Fantasy-sonata for piano op.6 appeared in Pest. In 1848, the year of the Hungarian Revolution, Ruzitska composed a setting of Petőfi’s poem Nemzeti dal (‘National song’). Other works in the Hungarian style are Introduction et variations brillantes sur un thème hongrois for cello and piano, and Phantasie und Variationen über ein ungarisches Thema for piano trio (1837). #ClassicalMusic