Václav Tomáš Matějka (1773-1830) - Notturno in G, Op.21

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Composer: Václav Tomáš Matějka (1773-1830)
Work: Notturno in G, Op.21
Performers: Tríο Matiеgka de Buеnοs Airеs

Painting: Jacques Sablet (1749-1803) - L'Heureuse Famille
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Further info: https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.18071
Listen free: https://soundcloud.com/triomatiegkadebuenosaires/sets/musica-para-flauta-viola-y

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Václav (Wenzel) Tomáš Matějka [Matiegka]
(Choceň, bap. 6 July 1773 - Vienna, 19 January 1830)

Austrian composer, guitarist and Kapellmeister of Czech descent. His earliest musical training was as a chorister in Kroměříž. In the late 1780s he studied law in Prague, where he developed into a promising keyboard performer under the Abbé Gelinek. After a short tenure as a legal functionary for Count Kinsky, Matiegka moved to Vienna to make a living in music. Shortly after 1800 he was active in Viennese amateur music circles. The guitar being as popular as the piano at that time, Matiegka perfected himself on both instruments, but the guitar became his favourite. By 1809 he was publishing sonatas for solo guitar with the best printers in Vienna and was billed as a ‘piano and guitar master’ on these editions. He married and settled in the suburb of Leopoldstadt, where he became the Kapellmeister at St Leopold’s parish church. Here he composed sacred vocal music ‘in the strictest style’. His only published works were those involving the guitar, an instrument which he handled expertly. He arranged Beethoven’s Serenade op.8 (for violin, viola and cello) and Adelaide op.46, in versions with guitar (replacing cello and piano respectively), and similarly transcribed works by Zumsteeg and Mozart. In turn, Schubert arranged Matiegka’s Nocturne op.21 for flute, violin and guitar as a quartet by adding a cello part. #ClassicalMusic