Anton Wranitzky

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Anton Wranitzky

Anton Wranitzky , Czech Antonín Vranický (born June 13, 1761 in Neureisch , Moravia ; † August 6, 1820 in Vienna ) was a Moravian-Austrian composer , conductor and violinist of the Viennese classical music .

Life

Signature of Wranizky

Anton Wranitzky was the younger half-brother of the better-known composer Paul Wranitzky , from whom he received his first music lessons. He first studied philosophy in Olomouc and then from 1778 to 1782 law and music in Brno . From 1783 he was a student of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Joseph Haydn and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger in Vienna . In 1790 he entered the chapel of Prince Lobkowitz , first in Prague, then in Vienna (until his death), where he was promoted to Kapellmeister in 1797. In 1807 he also became the orchestra director of the Vienna Court Theater and in 1814 Kapellmeister in the Theater an der Wien . Anton Wranitzky was the father of the cellist Friedrich Wranitzky . His two daughters, Anna Kraus-Wranitzky (1801–1851) and Karoline Seidler-Wranitzky (1790–1872), were well-known opera singers.

Works

With opus number

  • Op. 1 three string quartets. Published by Hoffmeister around 1803 (these dates do not necessarily come from the first editions)
  • Op. 2 Three string quartets. (in C, F and B flat major) published in Vienna in the Magazine de Musique around 1790. (Duke University Library has a copy)
  • Op. 4 three string quartets
  • Op. 5 Six string quartets. Published by André, around 1800
  • Op. 6 sonatas for violin with bass accompaniment (a copy is in The Hague)
  • Op. 7 variations for 2 violins. (Published by André 1807. For the source see op. 6)
  • Op. 8 string quintets (1 violin, 2 violas, 2 violoncellos). Of these, No. 2 was republished in G minor in a collection of classical string quintets by Schott in Mainz 2005, together with quintets by Franz Krommer , Franz Anton Hoffmeister , Ignaz Pleyel , Giuseppe Cambini , Johann Evangelist Brandl , Václav Pichl , Gaetano Brunetti , Antonio Capuzzi , Florian Leopold Gassmann and Francesco Zannetti . André published the works as "Three quintets for one violin, two violas and two violoncello ... 8th work." 1802
  • Op. 9 duos for 2 violins. (Published 1804 by Imbault. See Op. 6)
  • Op. 10 (“ Grand Quintuor ”) string quintet for violin, two violas and two cellos. (published 1803, republished 1996)
  • Op. 11. Concerto (No. 7?) For violin in C major. Published by Duhan in 1804. Republished in 1958 in an edition Český hudební Fonds, Prague
  • Op. 20 Three Duos for two violins (republished by Walhall Verlag Magdeburg, 2002)
  • Op. 56 Two sonatas for violin with bass

Without opus number

  • "Musique du carrousel éxécuté par la noblesse de Vienne" (around 1803)
  • 20 variations for two violins. (published in 1791 in Vienna by the Magazin de musique)
  • Cassatio in F major for 5 violas or 4 violas and bassoon (rarities for Strings Publications in Bristol, Conn., 1979)
  • Duo for violin and cello in C minor. (Medici Music Press in Bellingham, Washington, c1985. Ed. By T. Donley Thomas)
  • Duo for violin and cello in G minor. (Medici Music Press in Bellingham, Washington, c1985)
  • Symphonies included
    • Symphony in C minor, C4, ed. by Eva Hennigova-Dubova and published in "The Symphony in Hungary", The Symphony, 1720–1840. Series B; v. 12. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1984.
    • Symphony in D, also ed. by Eva Hennigová, released in the series Maestri antichi boemi in 1976.
    • Symphony in C major from 1796 Aphrodite recorded by Vladimír Válek and the Dvorak Chamber Orchestra.
  • Trio for two oboes and cor anglais in C major. Modern publisher: Basel, Switzerland: Edition Kneusslin, c1982. (Has been recorded.)
  • Echo Sonata: D major: for 4 flutes (in C) = for 4 flutes (in C) (republished: Zimmermann in Frankfurt, 2000)
  • Trio in Es nos. 1–3, for violin, viola and horn (Hanz Pizka Edition in Kirchheim, 1997)
  • Concerts in A and B major for violin and orchestra. (The latter published in the piano reduction of Artia in 1944, the former in an edition edited by Jindřich Feld , published in 1933 by Z. Vlk in Prague as "Concerto No. 14", with the note that there were ultimately another dozen)
  • A violin concerto in B flat major for violin by Antonin Vranicky - as "Anton Wranitzky" - was published by Musica Antiqua Bohemica in 1965 in piano reduction
  • Concerto in D minor for violoncello and orchestra
  • Concerto in C major for two violas and orchestra. Recorded several times, score released in 1958 by Praha: Český hudenbní fond, 1958 ed. by E. Hradecký
  • Concerto for violin and cello with orchestra. Recorded by Musica Bohemica
  • Sextet for flute , oboe , violin , two violas and cello
  • XII variazioni per il Violineo solo supra la canzonetta I am dissolute you are dissolute (published 1798)
  • Finally 6 concertante string quartets, which probably have no opus number ("concertante" quartets) (played by the Martinů quartet) to add to the above. (Recorded. Martinů Quartet)
  • Mass in Eb (recorded 1985)
  • Probably an octet partita for winds (woodwinds and horns) in F major, formerly attributed to Joseph Haydn .
  • Quintet for oboe, violin, viola, cello and double bass in G minor

literature

Web links

Commons : Antonin Vranicky  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ musicabohemica.eu
personal data
SURNAME Wranitzky, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vranicky, Antonin; Vranitzky, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Neureisch , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1820
Place of death Vienna