Jan Nepomuk Vent (1745-1801) - Parthia in C 'Alleluja'

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Composer: Jan Nepomuk Vent (1745-1801)
Work: Parthia in C 'Alleluja'
Performers: Collegіum Musіcum Prаgеnsе

Painting: Noach van der Meer II (1741-1822) - Overdracht van vaandels aan het exercitiegenootschap Tot Nut der Schuttery (1786)
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Johann (Jan) Nepomuk Vent [Went, Wend, Wendt]
(Divice, 27 June 1745 - Vienna, 3 July 1801)

Bohemian oboist, english horn player and composer. He married twice, and had ten children, at least two of whom became professional musicians (Wilhelm, an oboist, and Joseph, an opera singer). His eldest daughter Maximiliane married the oboist and Kapellmeister Josef Triebensee. He was first employed as an oboist by Count Pachta in Prague, in the mid-1770s became first english horn player in the Harmonie of Prince Schwarzenberg at Wittingau (now Třeboň) and Vienna, and in 1777 accepted the additional post of second oboist in the Nationaltheater orchestra in Vienna. In 1782 he resigned his position with Prince Schwarzenberg to become second oboist to Georg Triebensee in the newly formed Kaiserlich-Königliche Harmonie. He retained this post until his death, along with those in the Nationaltheater and Hofkapelle, with a combined income of 900 gulden a year (100 more than Mozart's imperial salary) and additional fees for copying and composition. Went is best remembered for his transcriptions of over 50 opera and ballet scores for Harmonie, and is regarded as a pioneer in this work. For almost 20 years he was largely responsible for the repertory of the emperor's Harmonie and, under special contract, the Schwarzenberg Harmonie, sometimes making two fundamentally different arrangements of a work to accommodate the english horns of the latter. There is little doubt that he also transcribed five Mozart operas for both ensembles including Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Went's only published works are three string quartets op.1 (Offenbach, 1791) and 23 Pièces en harmonie (Paris, c1790–95). Several transcriptions and other wind compositions were sold in manuscript editions by Lorenz Lausch and others, and the Traeg catalogue (1799) lists a symphony, 11 quartets, 5 flute duos, 6 quintets for oboe, bassoon and string trio, and 11 pieces of Harmoniemusik. Over 80 original works for Harmonie survive (mostly in A-Wn and CZ-K); several manuscripts are unsigned or lost. #ClassicalMusic