František Xaver Pokorný
František or Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorný (born December 20, 1729 in Königstadtl (Central Bohemia), † July 2, 1794 in Regensburg ) was a Bohemian violinist and composer .
Life
The son of Nikolaus Pokorný, "civis et consularis" (citizen and council member) in Königstadtl, was christened "Franciscus Thomas", but always called himself Franz or Franz Xaver.
Pokorný initially got lessons in composition from Joseph Riepel in Regensburg . Before 1750 he was accepted as a violinist in the court orchestra of Count Philipp Karl von Oettingen-Wallerstein . Towards the end of 1753 he was given leave to perfect his composition in Mannheim . There he was a student of Johann Stamitz , Franz Xaver Richter and Ignaz Holzbauer .
After Count Philipp Karl's death (April 14, 1766), Pokorný obtained permission to leave the Wallersteiner Hof “for the third to fourth year”. From that time on, Pokorný worked primarily at the Thurn und Taxis'schen Hof in Regensburg and Dischingen , but also kept returning to Wallerstein, where he had left his wife and children behind. At the turn of the year 1769/70 he finally joined the Regensburg court orchestra, in 1787 he appears on a payroll as "violinist director or second violinist" .
Pokorný composed, among other things, over 145 symphonies , as well as 61 concertos for wind instruments and clavicembalo , although the authorship of these works has not yet been clearly established.
The claim by Felix Joseph von Lipowsky that “Mlle. Pokorny ” , who played a horn concerto by Giovanni Punto in a Concert spirituel in Paris on December 24, 1779 , was a daughter of Franz Xaver Pokorný, is not documented by other sources.
Works (selection)
- Concerto No. 2 in B flat major for clarinet
- Concerto in E flat major for clarinet
- Concerto in C major for two organs
- Concerto for organ and chamber orchestra
- Concerto in E-flat for two horns and orchestra
- Concerto in F for two horns and orchestra
- Concerto in D major for flute and orchestra
- Concerto per corno seconda for horn and orchestra
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Pokorny, Franz Xaver . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 23rd part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1872, p. 48 ( digital copy ).
- J. Murray Barbour: Pokorny Vindicated . In: The Musical Quarterly 49, 1963, 1, ISSN 0027-4631 , pp. 38-58.
Web links
- Catalog raisonné in the international dictionary of sources RISM
- Works by and about František Xaver Pokorný in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Lipowsky, FJ: Baierisches Musik-Lexikon, Munich 1811, p. 251
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pokorný, František Xaver |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pokorny, Franz Xaver Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | bohemian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1729 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Městec Králové , Kingdom of Bohemia , Habsburg Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2, 1794 |
| Place of death | regensburg |