Antonín Rejcha (1770-1836) - Sinfonia in Es-Dur (c.1799)

★ Follow music ►   / reciclassicat   Composer: Antonín Rejcha (1770-1836) Work: Sinfonia in Es-Dur, Op.41 (c.1799) Performers: Die Pragеr Virtuosen Oldrich Vlcеk (conductor) https://tinyurl.com/25dpr5m8 Sinfonia in Es-Dur (c.1799) 1. Largo, allegro spirito 0:00 2. Andante un poco agitato 8:34 3. Allegro 15:11 4. Un poco vivo 19:10 Painting: Horace Vernet (1789-1863) - Napoléon aux Tuileries HD image: https://flic.kr/p/2scgtsw Painting: Eleonore Anne Steuben (attributed) (1788-1869) - Antonin Reicha HD image: https://flic.kr/p/2kEbxqK Further info: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/dp/B00005... Listen free: No available --- Antonín (Antoine-Joseph, Anton) Rejcha [Reicha, Raccha, Racha] (Prague, 26 February 1770 - Paris, 28 May 1836) Bohemian composer. Nephew and pupil of Joseph Rejcha (1752-1795), in 1785 the family moved to Bonn, where he became a member of the Hofkapelle of Max Franz, Elector of Cologne, playing violin and second flute in the court orchestra under his uncle's direction. The young Beethoven entered the Hofkapelle as violist and organist in 1789 and he befriended him. From about 1785 he studied composition secretly, against his uncle's wishes, composing and conducting his first symphony in 1787 and entering the University of Bonn in 1789, where he studied and performed until 1794, when Bonn was attacked and captured by the French. He managed to escape to Hamburg. In 1799 he moved to Paris, hoping to achieve success as an opera composer but in 1801 he moved on to Vienna. Once there, he studied with Antonio Salieri and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger. Reicha's life and career in Vienna were interrupted by Napoleon's November 1805 occupation of the city by French troops. Then Reicha decided to move back to Paris. He was soon teaching composition privately, future prolific composer George Onslow being one of his pupils by 1808. This time three of his many operas were produced, but they all failed; yet his fame as theorist and teacher increased steadily, and by 1817 most of his pupils became professors at the Conservatoire de Paris. The following year, Reicha himself was appointed professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Conservatoire with the support of Louis XVIII. In 1818 he married Virginie Enaust, who bore him two daughters. Reicha stayed in Paris for the rest of his life. He became a naturalized citizen of his adopted country in 1829 and Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1835. That same year, he succeeded François-Adrien Boieldieu at the Académie française. Though a prolific composer, he was of particular importance as a theorist and teacher in early 19th-century Paris.