Louis Massonneau (1766-1848) - Sinfonie à grand orchestre (1794)

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Composer: Louis Massonneau (1766-1848)
Work: Sinfonie (c-moll) à grand orchestre 'La tempête et le calme' ... œuvre 5me (1794)
Performers: Mеcklеnburg-Schwеriner Hofkapelle; Ivаn Törzs (conductor)

Sinfonie à grand orchestre (1794)
1. Largo, allegro con fuoco 00:00
2. Andantino 4:15
3. Finale, vivace assai 9:20

Painting: Gregorio Fidanza (1759-1823) - Moon Landscape with Vesuvius Eruption
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Louis Massonneau [Freyhold]
(Kassel, 10 January 1766 - Ludwigslust, 4 October 1848)

German violinist, composer and conductor of French descent. He was a son of a French chef cuisinier at the Kassel court; there he studied the violin with the Kapellmeister Jacques Heuzé and composition with the violinist Joseph-Karl Rodewald. In 1783 he became a violinist and viola d'amore player in the Hofkapelle of Landgrave Frederick II. In 1785, after the death of the landgrave, he moved to Göttingen to become first violinist at the Academic Concerts, under the direction of Johann Nikolaus Forkel. In 1795 he was appointed conductor at Frankfurt, two years later he occupied the same post at the new theatre in Altona and in 1799 he was conductor of the prince's chapel at Dessau. In April 1803, he settled in Ludwigslust, as assistant to the Kapellmeister Eligio Celestino. When Celestino died on 24 January 1812, he assumed the roles of orchestral conductor and Kapellmeister until his retirement in 1837. As a composer, he wrote three symphonies, several concertos, and many chamber music as well as sacred and secular music. His music shows familiarity with the violinistic idiom, fine feeling for orchestral sonority and gift for lyricism.