Willem de Fesch (1687-1761) - Concerto Grosso (1741)

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Composer: Willem de Fesch (1687-1761)
Work: Concerto Grosso (D-Dur) des 'VIII Concerto's in seven parts' ... Opera the Tenth (1741)
Performers: La Sfеra Armοniosa https://tinyurl.com/2ee8ttcd
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Concerto Grosso (1741)
1. Allegro 0:00
2. Largo 3:56
3. Vivace 7:13
4. Presto 10:08

Painting: Unknown artist (18th Century) - Interieur mit Gesellschaft und Musikanten
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Engraving: François Morellon La Cave (1696-1768), naar Andrea Soldi - Portret van Willem de Fesch (1751)
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Willem (William, Guillaume, Guglielmus) de Fesch [Defesch, de Veg, de Feghg, du Feche]
(Alkmaar, bap. 26 August 1687 - London, 3 January 1761)

Dutch composer and violinist. He was the son of Louis de Fesch and Johanna Maasbragt. Despite his parents’ marriage in Amsterdam (1685) and his brother’s birth in Alkmaar, the family orginated from the Pays de Liège and returned to Liège before 1690. De Fesch may have been a choirboy or even a singer in Liège during the 1690s. By about 1710 both he and his elder brother Pieter (1685-?) had settled in Amsterdam: Pieter had stayed some years in Leiden, where he was registered as a musician at the University on 6 June 1706. In Amsterdam De Fesch married Anna Maria Rosier, daughter of the composer Carl Rosier, who was active in Bonn, Amsterdam and Cologne. The names Willem, Pieter and Anna Maria de Fesch occur in the accounts of the City Theatre for dancing, singing and playing during the years 1708-21. De Fesch remained in Amsterdam until 1725. During this period he made several appearances as a concert violinist, including three at Antwerp in 1718, 1719 and 1722. In 1725 he was appointed kapelmeester at Antwerp Cathedral in succession to Alphonse d’Eve, a post he held until 1731, when he resigned because of repeated quarrels with the chapter and the chapel – quarrels for which his temperamental, mean and slovenly character was apparently to blame. A few years later De Fesch was with his family in London, where he remained for the rest of his life. In London, De Fesch was able to develop his activity as a concert violinist and virtuoso to the full. He seems to have been organist of the Venetian Chapel in London during the first years of his stay in England. He also appeared frequently as a concert violinist, often performing his own compositions. In 1748 and 1749 De Fesch directed the orchestra at Marylebone Gardens. After 1750 he seems to have withdrawn from public life.