Franz Clement

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Franz Clement's grave in its current state in the grave grove of the Währinger Schubertpark

Franz Joseph Clement (born November 18, 1780 in Vienna ; † November 3, 1842 ibid) was an Austrian violinist , pianist , conductor and composer .

Life

Franz Clement's father was a table decker, route director and violinist in the private band of General Feldzeugmeister Ferdinand Philipp Graf von Harsch zu Almedingen (1704–1792); he himself taught his son to play the violin from the age of four to seven. He then received lessons from the violinist Franz Kurzweil the Elder. Clement made his debut on his diminutive violin at the Vienna Hofburgtheater at the age of nine . As a child prodigy , accompanied by his father, he went on concert tours through the Netherlands and England, including playing on July 7, 1791 in Oxford when he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Joseph Haydn (1732–1809). In returning to continental Europe he met on August 9, 1792 before that day in Prague to King of Bohemia winning Francis I on (1768-1835).

From 1802 Clement was orchestra director ( concert master ) at the Theater an der Wien . The academies were perceived as a pleasant change in the theater : At the academy organized by Clement on April 7, 1805, Beethoven's Third Symphony was performed publicly for the first time. Since Clement needed a showpiece for the Academy at Christmas 1806, he commissioned Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) for a violin concerto. On December 23, 1806, he gave the world premiere of Beethoven's Violin Concerto without having had sufficient probationary time. The brilliant virtuoso mastered the task with flying colors. Clement loved to add little effects to his lecture . The notice on the above-mentioned concert stated as a special point: "Will Mr. Clement fantasize on the violin and also play a sonata on a single string with the violin reversed."

In 1811 he took a vacation and went on an art tour to the Russian Empire . Suspected of espionage in Riga , after stops in Petersburg and Brody , he was escorted to the Austrian border, from where, having become penniless, he made his way through to Vienna. Since his post in the Theater an der Wien was occupied, he accepted an engagement as music director in the nearby Stadttheater Baden near Vienna in the summer of 1812 , in which he led the orchestra of the house, which was reopened on May 9, 1812 after a new building. Although he was scheduled to be Kapellmeister in Baden in 1811, Clement went to the Estates Theater in Prague as orchestra director under Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826) in the 1813 summer season . In 1817 he returned to the Theater an der Wien.

Clement, who was also an excellent pianist, is known to posterity for his extraordinary musical memory. He made a piano reduction of Haydn's The Creation and Cherubini's opera Faniska from memory.

Clement's grave in 1859 (right), at that time diagonally across from that of Beethoven.

In old age he was considered a strange and difficult character; so he is said to have worn the same light skirt in summer as in winter and to have been badly neglected. He died two weeks before his 62nd birthday in a coffee house on the Laimgrube. His wife Kunigunde Theresia had died in 1831. Clement's tombstone in the former Währingen local cemetery has been preserved.

factories

orchestra

  • Concerto for piano and orchestra in B flat major op.5 (1803)
  • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in D major (1805)
  • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in D minor (1810)
  • Polonaise (1819)
  • Polonaise (1828)
  • Grand Divertissement (1829)
  • Rondo op.36 with string quartet
  • Concertine brilliant with string quartet
  • Variations op.1 with string quartet, 2 oboes and 2 horns
  • Grand Potpourri op. 30 (1820)

Solo works for violin

  • 8 solo variations
  • 6 solo etudes
  • 6 solo variations

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parish of St. Michael, Tom's baptismal register. 1780-83, p. 88.
  2. ^ Great musical academy. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 18/1793, March 2, 1793, p. 559, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  3. ^ Anton Bauer: 150 years of Theater an der Wien . Amalthea-Verlag, Zurich / Vienna (among others) 1952, OBV , pp. 60 and 72.
  4. ^ Alfred Willander: Baden, a Weimar of music . In: Johann Kräftner (Ed.): In the shadow of the Weilburg. Bathing in Biedermeier. An exhibition by the municipality of Baden in Frauenbad from September 23, 1988 to January 31, 1989 . Grasl, Baden 1988, ISBN 3-85098-186-X , pp. 56 and 58.
  5. ↑ The years 1803 to 1833 . In: Alfred Willander: Baden near Vienna - City of Music . Kral, Berndorf 2007, ISBN 3-902447-23-0 , p. 43.
  6. ^ News from foreign stages. Prague. (...) Director Clement has arrived with us. In:  Theater-Zeitung , No. 67/1813 (Volume VI), June 5, 1813, p. 259, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / thz.
  7. ↑ Music Address Book. Vienna. 22. In: Bartholf Senff (Ed.): Signals for the musical world. Volume 1869 (XXVII. Year), self-published, Leipzig 1869, OBV , p. 868. - Online .
personal data
SURNAME Clement, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clement, Franz; Klement, Franz; Clement, Franz Joseph Gregor Innozenz Adeodat (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian violinist, composer and conductor
BIRTH DATE November 18, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1842
PLACE OF DEATH Vienna