Alessandro Toeschi

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Alessandro Toeschi (* around 1700 in Rome ; † October 15, 1758 in Mannheim ) was an Italian violinist, concertmaster and composer .

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Alessandro Toeschi came from an old Italian noble family that went by the name Toëscha della Castella Monte. The father was chamberlain to the Duke of Gravina and Prince Orsini . At a young age, Alessandro traveled to England and then to Germany, where from 1719 to 1724 he found a job as court musician with Landgrave Ernst Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt . In 1725 he became 2nd concertmaster at the court of Württemberg under Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello . From this point on he used the name Toeschi. Together with his wife, a court singer, he received an annual salary of 1200 florins. From 1741 Toeschi was concertmaster under Johann Stamitz at the Mannheim court. In 1756 he was given the office of instrumental church music director. His daughter Barbara Toeschi (1733–1763) became a dancer in Mannheim and married the Italian cellist Innozenz Danzi, whose children were the singer Franziska Lebrun and the composer Franz Danzi . His son Karl Joseph Toeschi was concertmaster of the Mannheim orchestra together with Christian Cannabich and with it a successful representative of the second generation of Mannheim composers.

Toeschi's few surviving works are close to the Italian Baroque. The concerto for 2 violins and strings is influenced by Antonio Vivaldi , who was temporarily in the service of a brother of Landgrave Ernst Ludwig, Margrave Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt , who was governor of Mantua.

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  1. ^ Robert Eitner : Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of musicians and music scholars ..... (1903)
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SURNAME Toeschi, Alessandro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toesca, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian violinist, concertmaster and composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1700
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1758
Place of death Mannheim