Anton Thadäus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz (November 1750 – ) was a German composer and

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ist. He was born in the

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. Anton was born during a family visit to Německý Brod and baptised there on 27 November 1750. He and his brother

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received their first violin instruction from their father

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. After their father's death in 1757 they were taken on as students by

Christian Cannabich Johann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich (28 December 1731 (bapt.) – 20 January 1798), was a German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister of the Classical era. A composer of some 200 works, he continued the legacy of Johann Stamitz ...

, who had been a student of their father's. Both were by this time already violinists in the Mannheimer Kapelle and participated in its development. In 1770, with his brother Carl, he visited Paris and established himself there. Between 1782 and 1789 he played in the King's court orchestra in

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, and obtained the title ''ordinaire de la musique du roi''. He was the violin teacher of

Rodolphe Kreutzer Rodolphe Kreutzer (15 November 1766 – 6 January 1831) was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including '' La mort d'Abel'' (1810). He is probably best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven's Violin Son ...

. His biography after the French Revolution in 1789 is not known, but he probably died in Paris or Versailles. He may have died as late as 1809.

Selected list of works

*Three sets of symphonies: 3 as Op. 1 (1783–1784), 3 as Op. 2 (1784), 6 as Op. 3 (c.1785–1788), 3 as Op. 4 (c.1788–1793) *At least four concertos, in B-flat, F (1779), G and D, for

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, now also performed on the viola *About twenty

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s *Several flute concertos *A concerto for two flutes in G *Four concertos for two clarinets or clarinet and violin *Several string quartets and symphonies *Caprices for solo flute (partially not authentic, four caprices, no. 5–8 of the original print by Baillon, are almost certainly by Joseph Tacet from his op. 1), Bibliotheque Nationale de France. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9081583t.r=Joseph%20tacet?rk=21459;2 *Six duos for two flutes, published as his Opus 1 *A

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in D for two flutes and orchestra

References

External links

Program notes to a performance of his third viola concerto
* 1750 births 1798 deaths 1809 deaths German Classical-period composers German classical violinists German male classical violinists German violinists Musicians from Havlíčkův Brod German people of Czech descent Year of death uncertain 18th-century German classical composers German male classical composers 18th-century German male musicians German string quartet composers {{violinist-stub