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Franz Anton Morgenroth
Franz Anton Morgenroth (8 February 1780 – 14 August 1847) was a German violinist and composer. He was a member, later concertmaster, of the court orchestra in Dresden. Life Morgenroth was born in 1780 in Namslau in Silesia (now Namysłów in Poland), and was educated in Breslau (now Wrocław) where he learned to play violin and piano. In 1798 he moved to Warsaw, and was an official in the ''Kriegs- und Domänenkammer''. After Napoleon's victory over Prussia in 1806, Morgenroth moved to Dresden. There he gave music lessons, and studied basso continuo and composition with Christian Ehregott Weinlig. From April 1812 he was one of the musicians of the ''Hofkapelle'' in Dresden, where he met Giovanni Battista Polledro Giovanni Battista Polledro (10 June 1781 – 15 August 1853) was an Italian violinist and composer. Life Polledro was born in Piovà near Turin, son of a merchant. Showing musical talent at an early age, he studied with local musicians, and at ... (concertmaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concertmaster
The concertmaster (from the German language, German ''Konzertmeister''), first chair (U.S.) or leader (UK) is the principal first violin player in an orchestra (clarinet or oboe in a concert band). After the Conducting, conductor, the concertmaster is the most significant leader in an orchestra, symphonic band or other musical ensemble. Orchestra In an orchestra, the concertmaster is customarily the leader of the first violin section. There is another violin section, the second violins, led by the principal second violin. Any violin solo in an orchestral work is played by the concertmaster (except in the case of a violin concerto, in which case a guest soloist usually plays). It is usually required that the concertmaster be the most skilled musician in the section, experienced at learning music quickly, counting rests accurately and leading the rest of the string section by their playing and bow gestures. The concertmaster sits to the conductor's left, closest to the audienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Battista Polledro
Giovanni Battista Polledro (10 June 1781 – 15 August 1853) was an Italian violinist and composer. Life Polledro was born in Piovà near Turin, son of a merchant. Showing musical talent at an early age, he studied with local musicians, and at age fifteen he was a pupil of Gaetano Pugnani for six months, afterwards joining the court orchestra of Turin. In 1804 he was in the theatre orchestra in Bergamo; soon afterwards he began to tour, and for five years he lived in Moscow, engaged with . In August 1812 he met Ludwig van Beethoven at Carlsbad, and they gave there a concert for the benefit of the victims of a fire in Baden bei Wien.Paul Nettl. "Polledro, Giovanni Battista" in ''Beethoven Encyclopedia''. Philosophical Library, 1956. In 1816 he became concertmaster of the court orchestra in Dresden. He was engaged in 1822 as director of the court orchestra in Turin. From 1845 he suffered from ill health; he died in Piovà in 1853. His biographer in ''A Dictionary of Music and Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Classical Violinists
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19th-century Classical Violinists
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People From Silesia
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1847 Deaths
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1780 Births
Events January–March * January 16 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a Spanish fleet. * February 19 – The legislature of New York votes to allow its delegates to cede a portion of its western territory to the Continental Congress for the common benefit of the war. * March 1 – The legislature of Pennsylvania votes, 34 to 21, to approve An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery. * March 11 ** The First League of Armed Neutrality is formed by Russia with Denmark and Sweden to try to prevent the British Royal Navy from searching neutral vessels for contraband (February 28 O.S.). ** General Lafayette embarks on at Rochefort, arriving in Boston on April 28, carrying the news that he has secured French men and ships to reinforce the American side in the American Revolutionary War. * March 17 – American Revolutionary War: The British San Juan Expedition sails from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Rolla
Giuseppe Antonio Rolla (18 April 1798 – 19 March 1837) was an Italian violin and viola virtuoso and composer. Life and career Antonio Rolla was born in Parma, Italy, where he studied violin with his father, composer Alessandro Rolla. In 1803 the family moved to Milan where Rolla began to work at a young age. He became a violinist with the Teatro di Pavia in the spring of 1807, but lost the post with the fall of the Napoleonic Empire in 1814. Having maintained contacts with the town of his birth, Rolla presented a concert at the Teatro Ducale in Parma on 11 June 1818. In a letter written in 1820, Niccolò Paganini praised Rolla's ability after they had played violin duets at the request of his father. In 1821, Rolla became the concertmaster of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Ehregott Weinlig
Christian Ehregott Weinlig (September 30, 1743 – March 14, 1813) was a German composer and cantor of Dresden's Kreuzkirche. Born in Dresden, Weinlig received his musical training at the city's Kreuzschule from Gottfried August Homilius, and from the University of Leipzig in 1765. From 1767 to 1773 he was organist of the Reformed Church in Leipzig. From 1780 he was an accompanist for Italian opera and an organist for the Frauenkirche in Dresden. From 1785 to his death he served as Cantor of the Kreuzkirche and Kreuzschule in Dresden. Weinlig wrote several operas, oratorios ("Der Christ am Grabe Jesu"), cantatas ("Augusta"), hymns, pieces for piano, and sonatas in a sentimental style. His nephew, Christian Theodor Weinlig Christian Theodor Weinlig (July 25, 1780 – March 7, 1842) was a German music teacher, composer, and choir conductor, active in Dresden and Leipzig. Biography Born in Dresden, Weinlig initially studied and then practised law until 1803. He then b ..., was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dresden Hofkapelle
The Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden (), or Saxon State Orchestra Dresden, is one of the oldest orchestras in the world, created by order of Maurice, Elector of Saxony in 1548. Under communist East Germany and until 1992 it was called Staatskapelle Dresden; an earlier name was Kurfürstlich-Sächsische und Königlich-Polnische Kapelle, or Electoral Saxon and Royal Polish Orchestra. It is a constituent body of the Semper Opera House, along with two choruses and a ballet troupe, where it plays in the pit for opera and on a platform for its own concert series. History Heinrich Schütz was associated with the orchestra early in its existence. In the 19th century, Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner each served as ''Hofkapellmeister''. In the 20th century, Richard Strauss became closely associated with the orchestra as both conductor and composer, which premiered several of his works. Karl Böhm and Hans Vonk were notable among the orchestra's chief conductors in that they serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basso Continuo
Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression. The phrase is often shortened to continuo, and the instrumentalists playing the continuo part are called the ''continuo group''. Forces The composition of the continuo group is often left to the discretion of the performers (or, for a large performance, the conductor), and practice varied enormously within the Baroque period. At least one instrument capable of playing chords must be included, such as a harpsichord, organ, lute, theorbo, guitar, regal, or harp. In addition, any number of instruments that play in the bass register may be included, such as cello The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ..., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
