Johann Friedrich Peter (1746-1813) - Symphony (Quintet) in G (c.1789)
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Composer: Johann Friedrich Peter (1746-1813)
Work: Quintet in G, No.3 (c.1789) arranged for orchestra as a Symphony in G
Performers: Eastman-Rochester Orchestra; Howard Hanson (1896-1981, conductor)
Symphony (Quintet) in G (c.1789)
1. Presto 0:00
2. Polonaise 8:24
3. Menuet 11:29
4. Presto 15:44
Engraving: John Carwitham (fl. 1723-1750) - Le port et la ville de Philadelphie (c.1750)
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Map: Henry Popple (c.1690-1743) - America Septentrionalis A Map of the British Empire in America (1733)
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Further info: https://www.discogs.com/es/Chadwick-Macdowell-Peter-Howard-Hanson-Eastman-Rochester-Orchestra-Symphonic-Sketches-Suite-For-Larg/master/1569060
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Johann Friedrich [John Frederik] Peter
(Heerendijk, 19 May 1746 - Bethlehem, PA, 13 July 1813)
German composer, organist and minister active in America. He was educated at the Moravian schools in the Netherlands and Germany, finally entering the theological seminary of the church at Barby, Saxony. After his graduation in 1769, he was sent to America in 1770. From 1770 to 1780 he served the northern Moravian communities of Nazareth, Bethlehem and Lititz, Pennsylvania. In 1780 he was transferred to the southern community of Salem, North Carolina, where he spent the next ten years in various church positions, including that of musical director to the Salem congregation. In 1790 he was again transferred to the north, serving successively at Graceham (Maryland), Hope (New Jersey) and Bethlehem again. Although his official position was often that of schoolteacher, clerical assistant or diarist, unofficially he was always concerned with music. While a student at the seminary he copied much of the music that came his way. When he went to America he took with him an extensive library of instrumental works in manuscript, including several works by J.C.F. Bach which survive only in Peter’s copies. Although he must have studied with such Moravian composers as Johann Daniel Grimm (1719-1760) and C.F. Gregor, it is thought that he gained more from his studies of the works he copied than from formal instruction. Peter composed six quintets for two violins, two violas and cello, and about 105 concerted anthems and solo songs. The musical style of the quintets is close to that of the early Classical masters, such as Stamitz, Vanhal and early Haydn. They were completed in Salem in 1789 and are the earliest known chamber music composed in America. Peter’s anthems and solo songs feature graceful vocal writing and a considerable depth of musical expression. The orchestral accompaniment of these works, for strings and organ with occasional woodwind and brass, is always well worked out and often elaborate. His sacred vocal music is the finest body of concerted church music written in America at the time and compares well with that of European Moravian composers of his era. Manuscripts of his music are in US-BETm and WS. #ClassicalMusic