Antonín Vranický (1761-1820) - Concerto pour deux Violes (1805)

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Composer: Antonín Vranický (1761-1820)
Work: Concerto pour deux Violes (1805)
Performers: Jan Pěrսška (viola); Jaroslav Pondělíčеk (viola); Komorní orchestr členů Čеské filharmonie; Andreas Sebastian Wеisеr (conductor)

Concerto pour deux Violes (1805)
1. Allegro 0:00
2. Romance 11:25
3. Rondo 18:06

Drawing: Carl Schütz (1745-1800) - Ansicht des Kohlmarkts, Wien (1786)
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Antonín (Anton, Antoine) Vranický [Wranitzky, Vranitzky, Wranzky]
(Nová Ríše, 13 June 1761 - Vienna, 6 August 1820)

Moravian composer, violinist and music teacher. He attended the grammar school at the Premonstratensian monastery in Nová Ríše and later studied philosophy and law at a Jesuit seminary in Brno. His earliest musical training included violin lessons from his brother Pavel Vranický (1756-1808); he was also known for his beautiful voice. Before December 1783 he became choirmaster to the chapel of the Theresianisch-Savoyische Akademie in Vienna (until the abolition of church music there with the reforms of Joseph II). In Vienna he studied composition with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, and became renowned as a violin teacher and virtuoso. By 1790 he had entered the services of Prince J.F. Maximilian Lobkowitz as a composer, music teacher, Konzertmeister and (from 1797) Kapellmeister of the prince’s private orchestra; in these duties he was active at Vienna, Prague and the prince’s country seats in Bohemia (at Roudnice, Jezerí and Bílina). After the prince took charge of the Vienna court theatres (1807) and later sole direction of the opera, he appointed him orchestra director of the court theatre, according to the obituary register, a post he held until his death. From 1 August 1814 he was also the orchestra director of the Theater an der Wien. He assisted the prince in leading the Hoftheater-Musik-Verlag from 1812 to 1816 (see Weinmann). After the prince’s death he remained in the service of his successor. As a composer, his output almost entirely consists of instrumental compositions. Chamber music prevails, which is connected with his position of the chief conductor of the chateau music, but his legacy also comprises at least 14 symphonies and the same number of violin concertos, concertos for other string instruments, a number of minuets, hunting marches and many other compositions.