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Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Ignaz Josef Pleyel! 🎻🏆 Composer: Ignaz Josef Pleyel (1757-1831) Work: Sinfonie Concertante A Violon et viola (1791), BenP 112 Performers: Christoph Angеrеr (viola); Concilium musicum Wiеn; Paul Angеrеr (1927-2017, violin & conductor) Sinfonie Concertante A Violon et viola (1791) 1. Allegro 0:00 2. Rondo, moderato, assai 12:15 Drawing: Jean-François Daumont (1717-1768) - Gezicht op de stad Parijs gezien vanaf de Quai de Miramion HD image: Painting: Antoine Vestier (1740-1824) (attribution) - Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) HD image: Further info: Listen free: No available --- Ignaz Josef (Ignace Joseph) Pleyel (Ruppersthal, 18 June 1757 - Paris, 14 November 1831) Austrian composer, music publisher, and music instrument manufacturer. As a child, Pleyel probably had a few lessons with Jan Křtitel Vanhal, but in 1772 he was sent to Eisenstadt to study under Joseph Haydn. He made such progress that in 1776 he not only successfully premiered his own opera Die Fee Urgele at Esterháza, but also composed an overture for Haydn’s Die Feuerbrunst as part of the same program. Around the same time he became Kapellmeister to his patron Count Erdődy in Fidich in Burgenland, but by around 1780 he traveled to Italy where an amateur composer and diplomat, Norbert Hardrava, became his patron in Naples. By 1784 he arrived in Strasbourg, where he was appointed as assistant to Franz Xaver Richter, eventually becoming Richter’s successor in 1789. When the religious centers were abolished during the Revolution, he was able to travel to London to participate in the Professional Concerts in 1791, but he soon returned to France, settling in Paris in 1795. At that time he opened a publishing house, which soon came to dominate music publishing in France. Among the innovations Pleyel introduced were miniature scores (1802). Further travels back to Austria resulted in a pan-European reach, and he expanded his activities to the development and construction of keyboard instruments. He retired in 1820 to a farm outside of Paris. As a composer, Pleyel was conscious of the need to balance pleasing music with progressive development. He had an innate sense of melody, often coupled with progressive harmonies and expanded formal structures. He did not, however, fulfill the oft-quoted reflection of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that he might become Haydn’s successor in the world of music. His works include two operas, two Masses, a Requiem, four Revolutionary hymns, 32 Scottish songs, 40 symphonies, nine concertos (several with interchangeable alternative solo instruments), six sinfonia concertantes, nine serenades/divertimentos/notturnos, 95 quartets, 17 quintets, 70 trios, 85 duos, and around 65 works for fortepiano, as well as numerous smaller compositions. His music is known by Ben [Benton] numbers.
