Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718-1795) - Concerto per il Clavicembalo (1757)

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Composer: Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718-1795)
Work: Concerto (B-Dur) per il Clavicembalo (1757) (World Premiere Recording)
Performers: Pau NG on Sibelius with samples of a German harpsichord (18th Century)

Concerto per il Clavicembalo (1757)
1. Allegro 0:00
2. Adagio mà non troppo 5:05
3. Vivace 9:42

Painting: Gaspare Traversi (1732-1769) - Music Lesson
HD image: https://flic.kr/p/2mK6YaA

Further info: https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/8/8f/IMSLP448698-PMLP729292-Marpurg_8.Partita_Concerto.pdf
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Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg [Marpourg, Simeon Metaphrastes der Jüngere]
(Seehof, 21 November 1718 - Berlin, 22 May 1795)

German critic, journalist, theorist and composer. Although little is known about his musical training, he was resident in Paris in 1746, where he became friends with François Marie Arouet 'Voltaire' and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, among others. Shortly after his return to Germany, he published his first work, 'Der critische Musicus an der Spree', which was followed in 1754 by his most famous and widely distributed journal, 'Historisch-kritische Beyträge zur Aufnahme der Musik'. In 1752 he wrote an extended preface for Johann Sebastian Bach’s Kunst der Fuge under the auspices of publisher Breitkopf. Economic difficulties were overcome in 1763 when he was given a post at the Prussian Lottery, three years later becoming its director. His final major work, the 'Kritische Briefe über die Tonkunst', published between 1760 and 1764, was equally significant in establishing his reputation as a critic and theorist. As a composer, he showed that he was one of the significant figures in the Berlin School. He composed 185 Lieder (many of which were published in anthologies he edited), six sonatas for harpsichord (c.1755), a collection of fugues (1777) and two collections of chorale preludes.