Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee (1786-1868) - Konzert für 2 Klarinetten und Orchester B-dur

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Composer: Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee (1786-1868)
Work: Konzert für 2 Klarinetten und Orchester B-dur
Performers: Hans Rudοlf Staldеr (clarinet); Thοmas Friеdli (clarinet); Ensеmble Capricciο

Drawing: Johann Jakob Biedermann (1763-1830) - Luzern, von Südwesten (c.1812)
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Further info: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Krommer-Wartensee-Clarinet-Concerto-Stadler/dp/B000025QNC
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(Franz) Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee
(Lucerne, 15 April 1786 - Frankfurt, 27 Aug 1868)

Swiss composer. He studied the violin as a youth, and at 16 he began to study the piano. His father, a politician, wanted to train him for a political career, but Schnyder soon broke off his career as a civil servant and, having taught himself the double bass, cello, clarinet, viola and timpani, went to Zürich in 1810. The following year he went to Vienna and planned to study composition with Beethoven, who did not take him as a pupil but consented to examine and criticize some of Schnyder's compositions; Schnyder studied with J.C. Kienlen instead. He took a lively part in Vienna's musical life and settled in Baden; but a fire in his home destroyed all his possessions, and in 1812 he returned to Switzerland. For two years he lived in Lucerne, devoting himself to music, poetry, physics and literature. In 1814 he moved into the Schloss Wartensee, which he had inherited. In 1816 Schnyder moved to Yverdon to teach singing at Pestalozzi's institute. The next year he went to Frankfurt, where he composed and gave lessons, and where his works were performed. He studied the glass harmonica and gave recitals on this instrument, as well as on the piano. In 1828 he founded the Frankfurt Liederkranz; his oratorio Zeit und Ewigkeit was written for the 1838 Frankfurt choral festival. He lived in Lucerne for a while before returning to Frankfurt to spend the last years of his life. One of Switzerland's most important and versatile musicians of the late Classical and early Romantic periods, Schnyder composed with imagination, wit and feeling, and his works are melodically charming and rich in unusually delicate contrapuntal writing. Beside composing music, he took pleasure in writing essays on musicians and musical events, compiling memoirs and writing his autobiography, Lebenserinnerungen (Zürich, 1887). In 1847 he founded the Schnyder von Wartensee Foundation in Zürich, which still sets subjects for competitions in various branches of science and supports the publication of scientific and artistic work. #ClassicalMusic