Johann Küchler (1738-1790) - Concerto a Fagotto Principale

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Composer: Johann Küchler (1738-1790)
Work: Concerto a Fagotto Principale (World Premiere Recording)
Performers: Sibelius + Instruments samples (edited by Pau NG)

Concerto a Fagotto Principale
1. Allegro 0:00
2. Adagio 5:48
3. Rondo 7:12

Engraving: Louis-Joseph Mondhare (1734-1799) - Gezicht op de stad Mainz aan de rivier de Rijn (c.1756)
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Johann Küchler [Kücheler, Kichler, Kiechler]
(Quedlinburg, 1738 - Mainz, 16 January 1790)

German bassoonist and composer. According to Eitner, he spent seven years in France and six in the Palatinate, apparently in military bands. He was in Paris in the 1770s, and served as a composer and musicien du roi at the court in Versailles. In 1780 he became a supernumerary in the Hofkapelle in Bonn, and he received a post as court bassoonist there in 1781; his activity in Bonn apparently ended in 1786, though it was not until March 1788 that his name was removed from the court rolls (Braubach). He appeared in Paris in the 1780s, playing in the orchestra of the Concert Spirituel. On 1 January 1788 he was at the electoral court in Mainz as second bassoonist (his son Friedrich had already been first bassoonist there for two years). Küchler was a recognized instrumental composer in his own time, and his works lie within the stylistic range of the Mannheim school. He was famous mainly as a bassoon virtuoso in the 1780s, when both C.G. Neefe (in Cramer's Magazin der Musik, i, 1783/R, 386) and Forkel praised his playing. #ClassicalMusic