Carl Guhr (1787-1848) - Sonata in E Flat Major, Op.1 (c.1809)
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Composer: Carl Guhr (1787-1848)
Work: Sonata in E Flat Major, Op.1 (c.1809) (World Premiere Recording)
Performers: Sibelius + Harpsichord samples (edited by Pau NG)
Sonata in E Flat Major, Op.1 (c.1809)
1. Allegro con Fuoco 0:00
2. Adagio con espressione 11:40
3. Rondo 17:48
Painting: Luke Clennell (1781-1840) - Baggage wagons in a thunderstorm (c.1815)
Image in high resolution: https://flic.kr/p/2jQvgnk
Further info: https://ks.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/2/23/IMSLP490024-PMLP171990-Guhr1.pdf
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Karl (Wilhelm Ferdinand) Guhr
(Militsch [now Milicz], 27 October 1787 - Frankfurt, 23 July 1848)
German conductor and composer. He studied in Breslau with Schnabel and Janitschek, and held conducting appointments in Nuremberg, Wiesbaden, Kassel and Frankfurt (1821-48). In Nuremberg ‘he brought fire and life into everything’ (AMZ, xi, 1809, col.411), and both there and in Kassel he raised mediocre companies to a new state of excellence. On his arrival in Frankfurt (1 March 1821) he immediately restored the standards that had dropped in the wake of Spohr's resignation two years previously: he was said to ‘understand with virtuosity how to play the orchestra’, which played like men awakening from sleep (AMZ, xxiii, 1821, col.275). Spontini described him as the leading music director in Germany, and Wagner, who admired his Die Zauberflöte in Mein Leben, also praised him as ‘of high standing, secure, strong and despotic’ (Über das Dirigieren). Berlioz was impressed by his Fidelio, and left a lively personal account of Guhr in his Mémoires, saying that ‘everything about him suggests musical intelligence and purpose’. Guhr was a good violinist, of the Rode school until impressed by Paganini: he wrote Über Paganinis Kunst die Violine zu spielen (Mainz, 1831), and his Violin Concerto in E minor is sub-titled ‘Souvenir de Paganini’. His operas include a new setting of Spontini's La vestale text as Die Vestalin (1814: long review, with music examples, in AMZ, xvi, 1814, cols.641ff, 662ff); the others are Feodora (1811), Deodata (1815; first given as Das Gespenst, 1808), König Sigmar (1818) and Aladin (1830). He also wrote a mass, a symphony, concertos, quartets and violin pieces. #ClassicalMusic