Anton Ferdinand Titz (1742-1810) - Sinfonia in C-Dur

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Composer: Anton Ferdinand Titz (1742-1810)
Work: Sinfonia in C-Dur
Performers: Prаtum Intеgrum Orchestra https://tinyurl.com/dxap4ub4

Sinfonia in C-Dur
1. Allegro di molto 0:00
2. Andantino 4:13
3. Prestissimo 7:36

Drawing: Charles Loraine Smith (1751-1835) - The country concert
HD image: https://tinyurl.com/4d69jnan
Map: Johann Baptist Homann (1663-1724) - Nuerenberg (1716)
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Anton (August) Ferdinand Titz [Tietz, Dietz, Dietzsch]
(Nuremberg, 1742 - St Petersburg, 25 December 1810)

German violinist and composer. He was orphaned at an early age and was taught painting in Nuremberg by his uncle and aunt. By the age of 16 he was a violinist at St Sebaldus’s church there. After an unhappy love affair a few years later he went to Vienna, where he played in the opera orchestra and may have studied with Joseph Haydn. In 1771 he became a member of the Hofkapelle in St Petersburg; Catherine the Great paid him the highest salary of any of her court musicians. He also taught at the theatre school, gave the future Tsar Aleksandr I violin lessons, directed a court chamber orchestra (which included the clarinettist Joseph Beer and other outstanding musicians), and performed publicly, for instance in 1782, but most of his performances were at court, as a violinist and viola d'amore player. Later in life he suffered a mental disorder that sometimes prevented him from working, but he was encouraged and protected by Senator Aleksey Grigoryevich Teplov, a St Petersburg amateur musician. He dedicated three string quartets to Teplov and three more to Aleksandr I. Ludwig Spohr remarked in 1803 that his former technique, noted particularly for sensitivity in adagios, had largely vanished. His salon cantata, 'Le pigeon bleu et noir gémit', was a favorite with private audiences in St. Petersburg on into the 19th century. Anton Ferdinand Titz established a reputation in Europe for his development of the string quartet, of which he composed 18. Other works include 11 violin sonatas, 10 string quintets, three duos for two violins, a symphony, and a violin concerto. Other works composed for the Russian court have been lost. He has often been confused with the Dresden violinist Ludwig Tietz (1774-1827).