Joseph Woelfl

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Joseph Woelfl

Joseph Johann Baptist Woelfl , until about 1790 Wölfl (* December 24, 1773 in Salzburg ; † May 21, 1812 in London - Mary-Le-Bone ), was a successful European composer and pianist from the Mozart family.

Life

Youth in Salzburg

Memorial plaque at the location of the birthplace, Festungsgasse 4, donated by a Salzburg brewery

The son of the Prince Bishop's tax officer Johann Paul Wölfl grew up in the house in which the Salzburg court organist Michael Haydn also lived. It is unclear whether Woelfl received his early musical training from the younger Haydn or from the vice conductor of the court orchestra, Leopold Mozart , who was demonstrably known to Woelfl's father. As a seven-year-old boy he appeared publicly as a violin soloist. His obvious musical talent led to his admission to the "Kapellhaus", a boarding school built especially for teaching the cathedral boys' choir. Now Michael Haydn and Leopold Mozart were officially his teachers. The religiously strictly regulated training included music lessons as well as the acquisition of general scientific and linguistic knowledge. In 1786 Woelfl left the "Kapellhaus", but continued to take private lessons with Leopold Mozart until his death in 1787. From 1786 to 1788 he studied at the Benedictine University of Salzburg . There is no information about the next two years of life. It is probable that Woelfl trained as a pianist independently during this time; because in 1790 he appeared in Vienna with WA Mozart as a finished piano virtuoso. Preserved works from the Salzburg period (church music, harmony music, dances, canons) prove that he must also have completed a course in composition.

Warsaw and Vienna

WA Mozart recommended Woelfl to Prince Michał Kleofas Ogiński (1765–1833) in Warsaw as a piano teacher. Two years later Woelfl established himself in Warsaw (apartment at Marywil 8, 2nd floor) as an independent musician and worked there until III. Partition of Poland in 1795 so successful as a pianist and piano teacher that he was able to return to Vienna with a considerable fortune. A symphony, a piano concerto, piano variations and other piano works have already been written in Warsaw. On October 26, 1792, an orchestral concert in the Teatr publiczny was dedicated exclusively to his works.

After returning to Vienna, Woelfl appeared as a pianist and composer of operas, piano and chamber music works. Since his stay in Warsaw he no longer wrote his family name with umlaut, but in the international spelling with oe. For Emanuel Schikaneder and his suburban theater , the Theater auf der Wieden , and the k & k Hoftheater next to the Burg and at the Kärntnertor , he composed a number of Singspiele that were very successful in Vienna, but received mixed recordings elsewhere. In Leipzig z. For example, one wrote about his Singspiel Der Kopf ohne Mann from 1798 that it was “one of the worst marionette plays from one of the Viennese suburban theaters”, which was “disgusting” in places; But at least Woelfl's music was “several things very good, and some things […] really beautiful.” In Prague, however, this opera was so successful that it had another premiere on April 14, 1799 in a Czech translation (title: Hlawa bez Může ).

The duel with Beethoven

His pianistic skills, however, were beyond reproach. In the winter months of 1798/99 there was a so-called piano duel in the house of Baron Raymund Wetzlar von Plankenstern between Woelfl and Ludwig van Beethoven, who was three years his senior, the outcome of which was not entirely clear. The contemporary witness Ignaz von Seyfried , Kapellmeister in Schikaneder's Theater on the Wieden, reports:

“There [in Wetzlar's house] the highly interesting competition between the two athletes often gave the numerous, thoroughly elected gatherings an indescribable pleasure in art; Each presented his latest intellectual products; soon one or the other let the momentary inspirations of his glowing imagination run free and unbridled; soon they both sat down at two pianoforte, improvised alternately on mutually specified themes and thus created many a four-handed capriccio, which, had it been put on paper at the moment of birth, would certainly have defied transience. "

It seems to have been an endurance competition spread over several dates (“not infrequently”), in which not only greater fluency on the keys, but also a finer feel for four-handed playing on two pianos was required. In the course of his report, Seyfried leaves it open as to which “fighter should preferably be given the palm of victory”; precisely, however, he sets Woelfl's game apart from Beethoven's (which he describes, in a tone similar to other contemporary authors, as “breaking all the restrictive fetters”, “shaking off the yoke of bondage”, “a wildly foaming cataract”); Woelfl's style of play appears as an Apollonian-clear antithesis to Beethoven's Dionysian-unpredictable play of expression:

“Wölfl, on the other hand, educated in Mozart's school, always remained the same; never flat, but always clear, and for that very reason more accessible to the majority; art served him merely as a means to an end, in no case as a showpiece and showpiece of dry scholarship; He always knew how to arouse interest and to banish it unchangeably to the series of his well-ordered ideas. "

To travel

In 1798 Woelfl married the actress Therese Klemm, who gave birth to a son. But conjugal happiness did not last long: In March 1799 he set off alone on a one-year concert tour that took him through Prague and Dresden. Leipzig and Berlin led to Hamburg. In the summer of 1800 he stayed in Vienna again for a short time; after that he left the capital of the Habsburg Empire forever. On his tours he built a reputation that made him famous for his virtuosity and compositional ingenuity. His great successes soon sparked rumors. In Prague, Václav Jan Tomášek recalls , he allegedly lost so much money playing billiards that he had to promise his playing partner the proceeds from the outstanding Prague concert. On the other hand, he astonished the audience with the exact rendition of a piece by Mozart notated for four hands. In Dresden he spontaneously played his Concerto in C major in C sharp major, although it was considered one of the most technically demanding works for piano at the time, because the piano tuner was unable to retune the instrument, which was half a tone too low, in time. He also knew how to captivate his audience with imaginative concert programs. In Berlin z. B. he played a "musical Badinage" after Abbé Vogler , which had the following parts:

Romanza from the opera The beautiful milkmaid

"The calm sea, the rising of a thunderstorm, lightning, thunder, a violent storm, which, however, subsides after a while - previous state of the sea - transition into a well-known song, about which one varied and fantasized."

Woelfl was spontaneous in his inspirations: In Mainz he surprised the audience with the sudden improvisation of a tattoo that happened to come in from outside. His correspondence with the Breitkopf & Härtel publishing house, published in 1926, also reveals a person who jokes on the verge of tastelessness. On July 10, 1799, for example, he reported to the publisher: “I know nothing more of interesting news that concerns me than that yesterday I knocked over my piss pot out of clumsiness, and one of my slippers was badly damaged; But he's in a little better today. ”It is possible that Woelfl owes this coarse tone to the Mozart family. He then regrets with a joking undertone that an object falling from above during a concert in Berlin did not bring anyone to death because a fatal outcome “would have contributed a lot to the glorification of my concert”.

Paris

When Woelfl settled in Paris for four years in September 1801 , he set about publishing larger instrumental works; With his performances as a pianist he was also able to convince the Parisian public, and so he had no difficulty in finding a publisher for his piano concertos : after his first piano concerto, composed in Warsaw, two further works of this genre appeared in 1802 and 1803 by éditions Nadermann ; the latter was also published by Breitkopf & Härtel a year later in Leipzig. On March 3, 1804, he performed his first French stage work, the Opéra en une acte L'Amour romanesque , in Paris (libretto A. Charlemagne); on February 11, 1805 followed with Fernand ou Les Maures a heroic opera (libretto Bussy). In the Paris salons he was called Monsieur Wolff because the diminutive form Woelfl was considered an insult to the great artist. Despite all his successes, he did not stay in Paris long; In 1802/03 he toured Belgium and the Netherlands. A little later he reported to Gottfried Christoph Härtel that he now wanted to emigrate to London and establish himself there with a piano concerto and a symphony. For the time being, however, the plan failed.

London

Joseph Woelfl (Gravure de Meyer, 1811)

But in May 1805 he moved to London, where the concert organizers vied to win him over for their events. He has performed at Covent Garden Opera House , in Hyde's Room in the Hanover Square Rooms and at the King's Theater , where he was given the most honorable commission to compose the ballet Naval Victory or Triumph of Lord Nelson on the occasion of the victory at Trafalgar . For his debut as a pianist on May 27th, as announced two years earlier, he played a new piano concerto and performed an unprinted symphony. He had much success with his piano concerto Le Calme , published in London in 1806 ; it was performed four times in public concerts within two months. He told Härtel that he wanted to stay in London now.

Woelfl was in contact with the most important people in London's musical life, with Johann Peter Salomon , the concert organizer who had brought Haydn to London twice in the 1790s, with Muzio Clementi , the publisher and former pianist who was a generation older, who in 1781 with Mozart had dueled in a similar way as Woelfl later had with Beethoven, with the piano virtuoso Johann Baptist Cramer and the singer Angelica Catalani . Other prominent partners were the singers Storace, Griglietti and Dickons, the Dussek couple, the harp virtuosos Dizi and Kollmann and the violinist Bridgetower. A very special piano duel took place in 1807 with his colleague Jan Ladislav Dussek ; with whom Woelfl had been known since they spent time together in Hamburg in 1799, and who enjoyed an excellent reputation as a pianist in London. Woelfl did not suffer from a lack of self-confidence, and in order to publicly put his pianistic skills in the right light, he gave his piano sonata in F major op. 42 the nickname Non plus ultra . Dussek's London publishers replied by reprinting his Sonata in A flat major, Op. 64, which was given the nickname Plus ultra . In the concerts of the impresario Salomon he could be heard regularly as a soloist of his own concerts or with solo works. Woelfl did not break off contact with Leipzig either. In 1808 Breitkopf & Härtel took over the publishing of his two symphonies op. 40 and op. 41c. As a curiosity, his performance of the overture to Mozart's Magic Flute on the organ of the Great Concert Hall of the King's Theater on May 28, 1806, should be mentioned. After three years, Woelfl, who performed up to three times a week during the current season, was considered to be the city's most important musician and earned income that matched that of J. Haydn, WA Mozart and L. v. Beethoven together exceeded. The main part of his works was created in London, in which all branches of music from the grand opera to the small piano piece are considered. Woelfl married again in London, from which a son was born; his descendants can be found in England up to our time. Woelfl had four addresses in London: No 43, Gerrard Street, Soho; No 45, Rathbone Place; No 18, Sackville Road, Piccadilly and Great Mary-le-bone Street. When Woelfl died on May 21, 1812 after a short illness - presumably of pulmonary edema - he was highly regarded and wealthy and lived in the London suburb of Mary-le-bone. The continental blockade imposed by Napoleon in November 1806 made communication between London and the continent a difficult matter. So the news of his death reached Central Europe with great delay.

Woelfl memorial plaque (2012) in the London suburb of Mary-le-bone (on the occasion of the celebrations for the return of the 200th anniversary of death)

Woelfl's early death was the prize for his careers as composer, pianist, composition and piano teacher, pursued side by side with equal intensity. After his death, numerous publishers took on his works and published them until the end of the 19th century. An obituary stated that there is probably no household in the whole of England that does not have a work by Woelfl on the piano. The great successes and the high income Woelfls gave rise to a literature of envy during his lifetime, in which mainly continental authors participated. Ignaz von Seyfried stood out here in particular , who for 26 years after Woelfl's death still felt compelled to discredit Woelfl's memory with fictitious denigrations. They have been taken over unchecked by later authors until recently, although they had already been refuted by JH Mee in 1879.

The composer

Joseph Woelfl was a well-trained musician, as can be seen from his creative work: As a piano virtuoso, he knew all the possibilities of the instrument and developed new ones, such as the progressive emancipation of the left-hand role on the piano, which is still common in England today “Woelfl-Jump.” His profound violin training with Leopold Mozart gave him access to chamber music with strings; It is not uncommon for special effects such as glissando and ricochet as well as fingerings to be noted in the violin parts. He received singing lessons in the Salzburg Kapellhaus and was a member of the cathedral choir; this benefited the vocal parts in his church music as well as in his stage works and songs. The 13-year-old's commitment by Leopold Mozart to take part as a continuo player in local opera performances gave him an early insight into theater practice.

Although Woelfl received his education mainly from the Mozart family, his compositions (similar to L. v. Beethoven) followed on from J. Haydn. This is particularly evident in his symphonies and string quartets, while in his stage and piano works he has already processed developments in Italy, France and England. His personal style is also characterized by a lifelong admiration for JS Bach , which is also reflected in the requirement that each of his piano students (like himself) must master the entire “Well-Tempered Clavier” by heart at all times. In numerous reviews of the Leipzig AmZ the “worked” (= contrapuntal) movement of his compositions was emphasized again and again. A change in style was associated with his move to England; Woelfl now had to write for a primarily middle-class audience. The result was an initiation of musical classicism, which was taken up by his successors and brought to bloom. As a composition teacher, Woelfl took a strictly didactic approach. As his student Charles Neate (1784–1877), co-founder of the Philharmonic Society London, reported, he was the first teacher in England to teach form in his classes.

The pianist

In Vienna at the end of the century there was no shortage of qualified pianists: In addition to Mozart and Beethoven, Leopold Koželuh , Johann Nepomuk Hummel , Johann Ladislaus Dussek and Anton Eberl should be mentioned here as representatives. When Woelfl came to Vienna in 1795, he was immediately recognized as a Mozart student due to the clarity of his stroke and his brilliant running technique. He himself contributed chords in wide register, aided by the enormous span of his hands (tredezime), third and octave passages as well as a new jumping technique that he had developed independently. It leads straight to Franz Liszt's etude “La Campanella”. But Woelfl also knew how to assert himself in the field of improvisation, which was still the main category at the time, as the competition with Beethoven shows. In the German music centers, in Paris and London he was revered as one of the leading pianists of his time. In the history of piano music in the 19th century, he is an important role model for Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Liszt; It is clear that both of them knew Woelfl's piano music. As the founder of the English Pianist School, Woelfl plays a special role in British music history. Ph. Cipriani H. Potter (1792–1871) became his student at an early age, stayed with him for five years and, according to his own account, learned everything he could with Woelfl. In 1822 he became a piano teacher at the Royal Academy of Music and from 1832 its director, where he trained countless English pianists according to Woelfl's specifications. The "Méthode de Pianoforte" Op. 56 shows him as a consistent teacher who didactically lead his students to virtuoso piano playing.

aftermath

Since the end of the Second World War, Woelfl's works have been scattered in libraries on three continents. The "Internationale Joseph Woelfl-Gesellschaft Wien", founded in 2011, will present a complete edition in 60 volumes from the 200th anniversary of the composer's death on May 21, 2012 on the basis of years of research by Margit Haider-Dechant .

The Joseph Woelfl Society Bonn e. V. started work in 2016 in the Joseph-Woelfl-Haus set up in an estate in Bonn-Lessenich .

In the early 1980s, a street in the Morzg district of the city of Salzburg was named after Josef Woelfl.

Works

Status: August 2011, ISBN 978-3-9502760-1-5 , ordinal numbers according to Haider-Dechant, Margit: Joseph Woelfl. Directory of his works, Vienna 2011. Fw = early work, Op = opus, WoO = work without opus number

1.1 Vocal music

  • Fw1 German Litaney
  • Fw2 German Salve Regina
  • Fw6 3 canons
  • Fw11 Canon in the Viennese dialect
  • WoO18 To the name of Archduke Karl for solos and choir
  • WoO20 chants on the piano, 1st issue. The spirits of the lake. A ballad by Fräulein Amalie von Imhof
  • WoO21 chants at the piano, 2nd issue: 11 songs and a four. Ramler's hymn
  • WoO26 To Lina
  • WoO40 Cadde l'eroe magnanimo
  • WoO46 6 English songs
  • WoO63e Three English Songs
  • WoO108 The guarantee . A ballad by Friedrich Schiller
  • WoO112 The bride or the money
  • WoO121 Journey to the Beloved
  • WoO128 My wishes

1.2 operas

  • WoO2 Der Höllenberg or examination and wages . Heroic-comic opera in two acts (Emanuel Schikaneder)
  • WoO3 The beautiful milkmaid or the peep box . Singspiel in two acts ( Joseph Richter )
  • WoO6 The head without a man. Comic Opera ( Joachim Perinet )
  • WoO12 love makes short work or marriage in some way . Pasticcio (J. Perinet and J. Rautenstrauch)
  • WoO25 The Trojan horse . Comic Opera (Heinrich Gottlieb Schmieder)
  • WoO35 L'Amour romanesque . Opéra comique in one act (Jean Armand Charlemagne)
  • WoO36 Fernando ou Les Maures . Opéra héroique in three acts (Bussy)

1.3 ballets

  • WoO41 La Surprise de Diane ou Le Triomphe de L'Amour . Ballet (Rossi)
  • WoO44 Alzire . (Rossi after Voltaire )
  • WoO122 Naval Victory and Triumph of Lord Nelson . (Rossi)
  • WoO123 Terpsichores Return . (D'Egville)

1.4 symphonies

  • Fw10 [0]. Symphony (Warsaw)
  • Op.40 1st Symphony à grand orchester en sol mineur (won by L. Cherubini)
  • Op.41c 2nd Symphony à grand orchester en re majeur (won by Mr. Salomon)
  • Op.45d 3rd Symphony in D major
  • WoO12c 4th Symphony
  • WoO124 5th Grand Sinfonia for a full Band in d minor
  • WoO125 6th Grand Symphony
  • WoO127 7th Grand Symphony

1.5 Other orchestral works

  • Fw4 Six minuets
  • WoO1 Six minuets
  • WoO98 Ouverture in c minor
  • WoO126 Overture for Orchestra

1.6 Concerts

  • Fw9 [0.] Concerto for Piano (Warsaw)
  • Op.20 Premier Concert pour le Pianoforte en sol majeur (dedicated to Friedrich Heinrich Himmel )
  • Op.26 Deuxième Concert pour le Pianoforte (won by Mr. Guillaume Tepper) orte en sol majeur
  • Op.32 Troisième (Grand) Concert pour Pianoforte en Fa majeur (by JB Cramer)
  • Op.36 Le Calme, [4th] Concert pour le Pianoforte en Sol majeur
  • Op.43 [5.] Grand concert militaire pour Pianoforte et orchester en Do majeur (won by L. Fleming Esqu.)
  • Op.49 Le Coucou, [6.] Concert pour Pianoforte en Re majeur (won. Me. Ferrari) acc.de grand orchester
  • Op.64 [7.] Grand Concert pour Pianoforte en Mi majeur (won by Mr. E. Graham)
  • WoO12b [8.] Concerto for piano and orchestra in C major
  • WoO24 Concerto for piano and violin
  • WoO97 [9.] Concerto da Camera pour le Pianoforte (acc. To Mr. Gledhill)

1.7 Chamber music 1.7.1 String quartets and quintets

  • Fw12 Andante. In: Journal for quartets lovers on two violins alto et bass,
  • Op.4 Trois Quatuors pour deux Violons, Viola e Basse (by Leopold Staudinger)
  • Op.5a Trois Quatuors pour deux Violons, Alto et Violoncelle
  • Op.10 Six string quartets in 2 books (by M. de Fries)
  • Op.14a Quatuors pour 2 Violons, Alto et Basse
  • Op.30 Trois Quatuors pour 2 Violons, Alto e Basse (won Mr. Bassi Guaita)
  • Op.51 Six Quartetts, for two Violins, Tenor & Violoncello (won Prince of Wales)
  • WoO24a Three string quintets

1.7.2 Piano Trios

  • Op.5 Trois Trios pour le Piano Forte, Violon et Violoncelle (by Joseph Haydn)
  • Op.16 Trois Sonates pour le Piano-Forte & le Violon, avec accompagnement d'un Violoncelle ad libitum (won by Mimi Metzler)
  • Op.23 Trois Grands Trios pour le Fortepiano, Violon et Basse
  • Op.25 Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte avec acc. de violon et violoncelle
  • Op.42 Symphony in G minor Op. 40 in arrangement for piano four hands and fl. Vl. or: Sonate pour le Pianoforte à quatre mains with flute or violon
  • Op.42a Three Grand Trios pour le Pianoforte, Violon et Violoncelle op.42
  • Op.45a – c Trois Duos pour pianoforte à quatre mains avec flûte ou violon ad lib. (Op. 45c by Ch. Neate)
  • Op.46 Grand Duo pour le Pianoforte à quatre mains with flute or violon
  • Op.48 Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte avec acc. de Flute et de Violoncelle
  • Op.66 Trio pour le Pianoforte, Flute et Violoncelle en Do majeur
  • WoO23 Trio for piano and 2 horns
  • WoO63c Trio for Piano, Flute and Violoncello
  • WoO119 Trio for Piano, Flute and Violoncelle in C major

1.7.3. Duos 1.7.3.1 Duos for violin and piano

  • Op.2 Trois Sonates pour le Clavecin ou Piano-Forte avec acc. d'un Violon (elected Comtesse Therese de Cuenburg)
  • Op.7 Trois Sonates pour Forte Piano avec acc. d'un violon
  • Op.8 Trois Sonates pour le Clavecin with Violon
  • Op.14 Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte with Accompagnement d'un Violon composées sur des Idées prises de l'Oratoire de J. Haydn “La Creation” (won Prince August v. Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen)
  • Op.18 Deux Sonates pour le Piano-Forte avec acc. d'un violon
  • Op.19 Trois Sonates pour le Piano-Forte avec acc. d'un Violon (born Muzio Clementi)
  • Op.24 Trois Sonates progressives pour le Piano Forte avec acc. de violon
  • Op.27 Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte… nota la troisième avec acc. de violon (won. Mme. Tochon)
  • Op.28a Sonata pour le Piano-Forté, accompagné de Violon
  • Op.37c Three Sonatas for the Pianoforte, with accompaniment for a Flute or Violin ad lib. (married Mme. Recamier)
  • Op.47 Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte avec flute or violon
  • Op.67 (Grand) Sonate pour le Pianoforte avec acc. de violon en Mi majeur
  • Op.68 Grande Sonate pour le Pianoforte et violon en Re mineur
  • WoO45c Bouquet de Flore No III: Augustin, a favorite german Waltze arr. As a capriccio for Piano, Flute or Violin ad lib.
  • WoO63m Duet for the Piano and Violin
  • WoO87 Duet in D minor, Piano and Violin

1.7.3.2 Duos for flute and piano

  • Op.11 Trois Sonates pour le Piano Forte avec acc. d'une flute
  • Op.13 Sonata pour Piano-Forte avec une Flute obligé
  • Op.34 Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte avec acc. d'une flute
  • Op.35 Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte avec acc. de flute. In which are Introduced the favorite Scotch Airs, Nanny will thou gang with me. And Roy's Wife
  • Op.37c Three Sonatas for the Pianoforte, with accompaniment for a Flute or Violin ad lib.
  • Op.46a Three Sonatas for the Pianoforte with an Accompaniment for a Flute ad lib., In which is introduced the Following Six Favorite Scotch Melodies.
  • Op.47 Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte avec flûte ou violon
  • WoO15a Six Sonatines très faciles d'après les airs favorits des Operas pour le Fortepiano avec acc. d'une flûte
  • WoO38 Marche et Rondeau avec flûte No 13 in D
  • WoO45b Bouquet de Flore No II: Favorite Polonaise arr. As a Rondo withh acc. of flute ad lib.
  • WoO45c Bouquet de Flore No III: Augustin, a favorite german Waltz arr. As a capriccio for Piano, flute or violin ad lib.
  • WoO92 Favorite Polacca, arr. As a Rondo with acc. of flute ad lib.

1.7.3.3 Duets for harp and piano

  • Op.29 Grand Duo pour Harpe et Pianoforte (won by Mme. Cléry)
  • Op.37 Grand Duo pour Harpe et Piano ou deux Pianos (by F. Dizi)
  • Op.44 A Second Duett, for the harp & piano forte, or two piano fortes (gew. Miss Gautherot)
  • Op.52 Sonata for the harp with an accompaniment for the flute in C major (gew. Mr. Charles Meyer)
  • Op.57 Duet for Harp and Piano (won by Mr. Douchez)
  • WoO3g La belle Latière, arrangements f. Harp and piano
  • WoO45e Bouquet de Flore No V 6 Valses for Pianoforte, Harp ad lib.
  • WoO45f Bouquet de Flore No VI: Turkish March and Rondo for Piano with acc. of Harp.
  • WoO52 Grand Sonata for the Harp, in which is introduced a favorite Air of Cosi fan Tutte, also for Piano (gew. Miss Adamson)
  • WoO63l Fishers Minuet with Variations for Piano and Harp in B-major
  • WoO72 Duet in C major for Flute and Harp
  • WoO85 "Fishers Minuet" with Variations for Piano and Harp in B- flat major
  • WoO90 Variations for Harp and Piano (won by Mr. Charles Meyer)
  • WoO94 6 Valses for Pianoforte, Harp ad lib.
  • WoO95 Turkish March and Rondo for Piano with acc. of Harp ad lib.
  • WoO96 3 Polonaises for Harpe and Pianoforte

1.7.3.4 Other occupations

  • Op.3a Three duos for two violins
  • Op.31 Grand Duo pour Pianoforte et Violoncelle en re mineur (Mrs. L. Hollander)
  • WoO27 Douze Walzes pour le Forté Piano avec acc. d. Tambourine ad lib.
  • WoO35a Ouverture from L'Amour Romanesque: arr. F. 2 vl., Or 2 bottles, or 2 clear.

1.7.3.5 Wind music

  • Fw3 Sei Sonata à Oboe Primo, Oboe Secondo, Corno I, Corno II, Fagotto I, Fagotto II. (By Blasio Rauschgat)
  • Fw5 Be sonata a 6. 2 oboe, 2 bassoon e 2 corni
  • WoO16 Quartetto per quattro flauti traversi
  • WoO17 Divertimento per tre flauti traversi e un flauto d'amore
  • WoO48 2 trios for 2 clarinets and basson
  • WoO130 quintets for wind instruments

1.8 Piano music for two hands 1.8.1 Sonatas

  • Fw7 Sonata with a new polonaise
  • Op.1 Deux Sonates pour le Clavecin ou Piano-Forte (by Caton v. Schroeder)
  • Op.3 Trois Sonates pour le Forte-piano seul (chosen by Anne de Sonnenburg)
  • Op.6 Trois Sonates pour le Piano-Forte (chosen by Ludwig v. Beethoven)
  • Op.7a Trois Sonates pour le Piano Forte
  • Op.12 Trois Sonates pour le Piano Forte
  • Op.15 Trois Sonates pour le Forte Piano (elected Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia)
  • Op.19a Three Sonatas for the Piano Forte
  • Op.22 Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte
  • Op.25a Grand Sonata in c minor for Piano-Forte Op. 25th
  • Op.27 Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte… nota la troisième avec acc. de violon (won. Mme. Tochon)
  • Op.28b Trois Sonates pour le Forte Piano (won by Mme. La Comtesse Borosdin)
  • Op.33 Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte
  • Op.36b A Grand Sonata for the Pianoforte (won Mrs. Oom)
  • Op.38 Sonata pour le Pianoforte
  • Op.38a Three Sonatas for the Piano Forte (won Miss Mc Queen)
  • Op.41 Non plus ultra. Grande Sonate pour Pianoforte (chosen by Miss E. Binny)
  • Op.41a Extract from "Ne Plus Ultra" Sonata
  • Op.43a Three Sonatas for Piano Forte (won by Mme. Catalani)
  • Op.50 Le Diable A Quatre. Grande Sonate pour le Pianoforte (acc. To Mrs. Hunt)
  • Op.53 Three Sonates for the Pianoforte (won Miss Francis)
  • Op.54 Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte (chosen Miss Tibbs)
  • Op.55 Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte (elected Miss Logier)
  • Op.56b Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte
  • Op.58 Sonate pour le Pianoforte (Mrs. Stephanson)
  • Op.60 Sonate pour le Pianoforte (chosen Miss Louisa Scarlett)
  • Op.62 Grande Sonate pour le Pianoforte (won Mr. Latour)
  • WoO15b Three easy piano sonatas
  • WoO39 Piano Sonata in C minor [stolen from Lodi]
  • WoO52 Grand Sonata for the Harp, in which is introduced a favorite Air of Così fan tutte , also for Piano (gew. Miss Adamson)
  • WoO63j piano sonata in E
  • WoO113 Sonate précédée d'une Introduction & Fugue pour le Pianoforte
  • WoO113b Grande Sonate en Ut mineur pour le Pianoforte

1.8.2 Variations

  • Fw8 Kozak bardzo s? Awny with 10 variations
  • WoO5 9 Variations on the Terzetto "Pria ch'io l'impegno" de l'opéra "L'amour marinaro" (Joseph Weigl, won Mlle La Baronne Nanette de Lezzenyi)
  • WoO7 9 Variations sur une pièce, tirée du Ballet Alzine (Mrs. Madame Fanny d'Arnstein, née Itzig)
  • WoO8 9 Variations sur l'Air "Because the moon shines so lovely" de l'opéra "Babylon's pyramids" ( Peter von Winter , acc. Mlle Susette d'Eyb)
  • WoO10 9 Variations sur l'Air "Because the moon shines so lovely" de l'opéra "Babylon's Pyramids" (Peter Winter, acc. Mlle Susette d'Eyb) tiré de l'opéra: The second part of the Magic Flute sous le titre " The labyrinth or the battle with the elements "(P. Winter)
  • WoO11 9 Variations on the duo "Herbey, herbey, you people" tiré de l'opéra The second part of the Magic Flute sous le titre "The Labyrinth or The Fight with the Elements" (P. inter)
  • WoO13 9 Variations sur l'Air “If only I knew all the girls” from the opera “Babylon's Pyramids” by Gallus and Winter
  • WoO14 9 Variations on the duo “Females, loyal as your shadow” tiré de l'opéra “The Labyrinth” de Mister Winter
  • WoO15 9 variations on the duo "La Stessa, la Stessissima" from the opera "Falstaff" and "Le tre Burle" ( Antonio Salieri ) pour le Fortepiano
  • WoO19 9 variations on "Look that you will soon be a master" from "Des Schneider's wedding" (by Seyfried)
  • WoO22 9 Variations pour le Pianoforte sur le Quatuor "Child do you want to sleep peacefully" de l'opéra " The interrupted festival of sacrifice " (won. Mme. Fröhlich née pupil)
  • WoO28 9 Variations sur le Choeur "Hell is dark" from the travested Aeneas 2nd part
  • WoO29 9 Variations sur l'Air "My father has won" de l'opérette "Love makes short work" ( Johann Baptist Henneberg , acc. Mlle. Madleine Winter)
  • WoO30 9 Variations on l'Air de Figaro de Mozart "Se vuol ballare Signor Contino"
  • WoO32 9 Variations on a Favorite German Air for the Pianoforte
  • WoO33 Romance variée de l'opéra Une folie par Méhul
  • WoO34 Air avec Variations No 4
  • WoO43a The Cabinet No 1. Lullaby. Variations
  • WoO43c The Cabinet No 3. “What's the matter Now”. Variations
  • WoO45a Bouquet de Flore No I 9 Variations on a favorite German Air for the Pianoforte
  • WoO45g Bouquet de Flore No VII O dolce Concento, with Six Variations for the Piano Forte
  • WoO47 Andante variée pour le Pianoforte
  • WoO58 Variations on “Oh cara armonia” (Air from Die Zauberflöte)
  • WoO59 Air favorit “If Lieserl only wanted it” variée pour Pianoforte
  • WoO63g A favorite German Air with Variations
  • WoO83 "Hark I hear the eve'ning drum", Variations for the Pianoforte
  • WoO99 Air "The Storm" with Variation No 5 in G pour Pianoforte
  • WoO99a Air with Variations for the Piano Forte No 5
  • WoO100 Romance "Je suis encore dans mon Pr" variée No 6 in G pour Pianoforte
  • WoO101 Variations No 7 in G pour Pianoforte
  • WoO102 Variations No 8 in C pour Pianoforte
  • WoO103 Variations No 9 in F pour Pianoforte
  • WoO104 Variations No 10 in C pour Pianoforte
  • WoO105d Les Soirées Amusantes No. IV. "The Storm" with variations
  • WoO120 Variations by Wölfel in Varietées amusantes pour le Piano Forte

1.8.3 Dances

  • WoO4 12 German dances in the piano reduction which were performed in the K: K: small Redouten Hall in Vienna this year 1796
  • WoO9 12 German dances per anno 1798 from the K: K: large redouten hall per il clavicembalo o forte piano
  • WoO9a 12 Menuetti per Anno 1798 from the k: k: Great Redouten Hall Per il Clavicembalo o Forte Piano
  • WoO31 12 Valses pour le Pianoforte
  • WoO63b 12 Waltzes
  • WoO63i 3 Polaccas
  • WoO64 6 German dances
  • WoO70 3 Polaccas for Pianoforte
  • WoO74 Polacca for Pianoforte
  • WoO86 3 Polonaises pour Pianoforte in B flat major
  • WoO105a Les Soirées Amusantes No. I. The favorite tamborine dance
  • WoO105b Les Soirées Amusantes No. II. The Grand March and Pan's Pantomimic Dance
  • WoO106 Six Valses pour Pianoforte
  • WoO109 Four waltzes in D, F sharp, B flat and D
  • WoO110 Waltz in D for piano
  • WoO115 Waltz from the music book of EB Marietta Gould
  • WoO129 William the fourth's waltz
  • WoO131 Three Valses

1.8.4 Other works

  • Op.9 Fantaisie et Fugue pour le Pianoforte (won by Mr. de Sermentot)
  • Op.18 Fantaisie pour Piano-Forte seul
  • Op.28 Fantaisie et Fugue pour le Pianoforte
  • Op.36a Rondo à la Polonaise for the Piano Forte
  • Op.41b "German National Air"
  • Op.59 Venus en Voyage, Divertissement pour le Pianoforte (won by Mr. Holst)
  • Op.61 Seconde Divertissement pour le Pianoforte, in which is introduced Mozart's favorite air, the Manly Heart
  • WoO37 Grand Fantaisie "O mon cher Augustin" pour Pianoforte (won Miss HE Tones)
  • WoO41a La Surprise de Diane ou Le Triomphe de L'Amour. (Rossi) Arranged for the piano forte by J. Woelfl. Ballet.
  • WoO42 First and Second Number of SCHIRMERS CHOICMANUSCRIPT COLLECTION OF MUSIC
  • WoO42a Hungarian
  • WoO42b Overture
  • WoO42c Song from the Opera Don Juan
  • WoO42d Song from the Opera Adolf and Clara, or as it is called in the English Farce Matrimony
  • WoO42e Song from the Opera, called The sleeping cup (Der Schlaftrunk)
  • WoO42f Song from the Opera, called The interrupted Sacrifice (The Interrupted Sacrifice Festival. Winter)
  • WoO42g Overture from the Opera, called Adolf and Clara
  • WoO42h Rondo
  • WoO42i Rondo
  • WoO42j Rondo
  • WoO42k Duetto from the Opera, called This House is to be sold (Dalayrac)
  • WoO42l Overture from the opera: The interrupted festival of sacrifices
  • WoO43 THE CABINET Consisting of Rondos, Airs with Variations and Military Pieces, for the Piano Forte Composed & Arranged by J. WOELFL
  • WoO43b The Cabinet No 2. "Alone by the night of the Moon" for Pianoforte
  • WoO43d The Cabinet No 4. "The Linnet". Rondo for Pianoforte
  • WoO43e The Cabinet No 5. Lord Cornwalli's March
  • WoO43f The Cabinet No 6. Donna Della
  • WoO43g The Cabinet No 7. Fair Ellen was a gentle maid. Rondo for Pianoforte
  • WoO43h – l The Cabinet No 8 - 12. [so far undetectable]
  • WoO44a Alzire, a grand ballet arr. For the Pianoforte
  • WoO45 Bouquet de Flore consisting of different pieces of music, for the pianoforte. no 1-7
  • WoO45h Bouquet de Flore No VIII Grand March of the Spanish Patriots
  • WoO50 Marche et Rondeau pour le Pianoforte
  • WoO51 Allegretto pour le Pianoforte (B flat major)
  • WoO53 "Lord Cornwalli's March", The Cabinet No. 5.
  • WoO54 "Alone by the night of the Moon", The Cabinet No. 2.
  • WoO55 "The Linnett", The Cabinet No. 4th
  • WoO56 "Donna Della", The Cabinet No. 6th
  • WoO57 "Fair Ellen was a gentle maid", The Cabinet No. 7th
  • WoO60 4 Favorite Airs from Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" adapted for two Performers on one Piano Forte, Book 2,2 Books of Duets with favorite Airs from "Le Nozze di Figaro"
  • WoO61 Grand marche pour le Pianoforte in C major
  • WoO62 The favorite tambourine with Introduction et Final No 11 in C major
  • WoO63 Harmonic Budget
  • WoO63a Six Preludes
  • WoO63d Six Preludes
  • WoO63f March and Rondo
  • WoO63h Six Preludes
  • WoO63k Six Preludes
  • WoO63n Overture to La Battaille de Salamine
  • WoO65 6 Preludes pour le Pianoforte
  • WoO67 6 Preludes pour le Pianoforte
  • WoO68 Marche for Pianoforte in D major "Portoguese March"
  • WoO69 Six Preludes
  • WoO71 Six Preludes
  • WoO73 24 Preludes dans les Modes majeurs et mineurs les plus usités
  • WoO75 2 Books of Duets with favorite Airs from "Le Nozze di Figaro" 4 Favorite Airs from Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro"
  • WoO76 Rondeau pour le Pianoforte in B majeur
  • WoO77 Trois Rondos pour Pianoforte in B, D and B major
  • WoO78 “La Chasse”, Rondeau pour Pianoforte in C-majeur
  • WoO79 “Bon jour”, Rondeau pour Pianoforte in G majeur
  • WoO80 “Bon soir”, Rondeau favori pour Pianoforte in D majeur
  • WoO81 Rondeau facile e brillante pour Pianoforte in C majeur
  • WoO81a Rondeau facile e brillante pour Pianoforte in C majeur in: Useful Practice. A first Series of Sonatas, Rondos & Airs, selected from the best Authors, ancient & modern, dited by Robert Barnett
  • WoO82 "Heigho", Rondeau pour Pianoforte
  • WoO84 March and Military Rondo for the Pianoforte
  • WoO88 The favorite Scotch Air of Donald, Arranged as a Rondo for the Piano Forte
  • WoO89 "Castle Goring", Rondo No. 3 pour pianoforte
  • WoO91 Marcia et Rondo Pastorale pour le Pianoforte in D major
  • WoO93 Augustin, a favorite German Waltze
  • WoO105 LES SOIRÈES AMUSANTES
  • WoO105f Les Soirées Amusantes No. VI. Mad.de Parisots 2nd Hornpipe arranged as a Rondo for the Piano Forte
  • WoO105k Les Soirées Amusantes No. XI. "Nobody coming to marry me", arranged as a rondo
  • WoO105o Les Soirées Amusantes No. XV. “Bon Jour”, Rondeau pour Pianoforte in G majeur
  • WoO105q Les Soirées Amusantes No. XVII. “Bon Soir”, Rondeau favori pour Pianoforte in D majeur
  • WoO107 The Popular Air EVELEEN'S BOWER
  • WoO113a Introduction et Fugue pour le Pianoforte
  • WoO114 Rondeau pour Pianoforte In: Romances anglaises à 1 voix et piano, et pieces pp
  • WoO117 The Organist by Westbrook "The Calm"
  • WoO118 Grand March of the Spanish Patriots, followed by RULE BRITANNIA, arranged as a Rondo (To the Spanish Patriots)

1.9. Piano music for four hands

  • Op.17 Sonate pour le Piano-Forte à quatre mains
  • Op.22a Three Sonates pour le clavecin à quatre mains
  • Op.37a Grand Duo pour Harpe et Piano ou deux pianos, 2nd version
  • Op.37b Woelfl's Grand Duett Adapted for two Performers on one Piano Forte
  • Op.42 Symphony in G minor Op. 40 in arrangement for piano four hands and flute or violin ad. lib. or: Sonate pour le Pianoforte à quatre mains with flute or violon
  • Op.45a – c Trois Duos pour pianoforte à quatre mains avec flûte ou violon ad lib. (Op. 45c by Ch. Neate)
  • Op.46 Grand Duo pour le Pianoforte à quatre mains with flute or violon
  • Op.69 Grande Sonate favorit à quatre mains pour le Pianoforte
  • WoO45d Bouquet de Flore No IV. Sonata for Two Performers on One Piano Forte
  • WoO49 6 valses pour le pianoforte à 4 mains
  • WoO60 4 Favorite Airs from Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" adapted for two Performers on one Piano Forte, Book 2
  • WoO63o Duett for Two Players on One Piano Forte in C major
  • WoO66 Six Valses pour le Pianoforte à quatre mains
  • WoO111 Sonata in b-mineur à quatre mains op. 2 [sic]

1.10 educational works

  • Op.56 Méthode de Pianoforte, contenant 50 Exercises doigtés, 1re et 2me partie
  • Op.56a keyboard exercises 17–24, 45–48
  • WoO116 Etude in: Studies and Characteristic Pieces for the Piano Forte composed by J. Sebastian Bach, John Field, Ludwig Berger and J. Woelfl

1.11 edits

  • WoO141 Eight Favorite Airs, from Mozart's Opera COSI FAN TUTTE
  • WoO142 4 Favorite Airs from Mozart's "Le Nozze die Figaro" adapted for two Performers on one Piano Forte, Book 2
  • WoO143a “La jeune Lise était rêveuse” from the opera: “Malade par amour” by Solié , Romance arr. By Woelfl
  • WoO143b “Lorsque l'amour s'est glissé dans notre âme” from the opera: “Malade par amour” by Solié, Romance arr. By Woelfl
  • WoO144 "Fly not yet, or, Planxty Kelly" Rondo for the piano forte, composed by Carolan, arr. By Woelfl

1.12 Editing by someone else's hand

  • WoO44b The favorite pas de deux, for the harp with acc. for the flute , by F. Dizi

Discography

  • Piano Sonatas Vol. 1: 3 Piano Sonatas op. 33 (C major, D minor, E major); Laure Colladant, Pianoforte (harmonia mundi HMCD 90), 1995
  • Piano Sonatas Vol. 2: 3 Piano Sonatas op. 28 (G major, D major, B minor); Laure Colladant, Pianoforte (harmonia mundi HMCD 90), 1995
  • Piano Sonatas in C minor, Op. 25; C major, D minor, E major op.33; Jon Nakamitsu, piano (harmonia mundi usa HMU 907324), 2003
  • Symphonies in G minor op. 40, C major op. 41 [a] & Duet in D minor for piano and violoncello op. 31; Pratum Integrum Orchestra (Caro Mitis CM 00220005), 2005
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 in G major, Op. 20, Grand Concert militaire in C major, Op. 43; Cuckoo Concerto in D major op. 59; Andante from the concert Le calme op. 36; Yorck Kronenberg , piano; SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Johannes Moesus (cpo 777 374-2), 2008
  • 3 string quartets in C major, F major, C minor op. 4 [sic! other keys than in WV!], Authentic Quartet (Hungaroton HCD 32580), 2008
  • 3 string quartets in E flat major, C major, D major op. 30, Pratum Integrum Orchestra Solists (Caro Mitis CM0032006), 2008
  • Sonata Non plus ultra Op. 41, Margit Haider-Dechant, Apollon Musikoffizin (AMCI20.013), 2017

literature

Web links

Commons : Joseph Woelfl  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Żórawska-Witkowska: Muzyka na dworze iw teatrze Stanisława Avgust. Warsaw 1995, p. 100.
  2. ^ "Music in Leipzig. Michael until New Year ”, in: Allgemeine musical newspaper. V (1802/03), col. 241-258; here col. 249.
  3. ↑ Ignaz von Seyfried: Ludwig van Beethoven's studies in basso continuo, contrapoint and composition theory, collected and edited from his handwritten estate. Second revised edition with completed text by Henry Hugh Pierson, Leipzig, Hamburg, New York 1853, Appendix p. 5.
  4. ↑ Ignaz von Seyfried: Ludwig van Beethoven's studies in basso continuo, contrapoint and composition theory, collected and edited from his handwritten estate. Appendix p. 6. “Art” in Seyfried's diction is certainly synonymous with pianistic technique in today's linguistic usage.
  5. ↑ See Margit Haider-Dechant (2007), col. 1123.
  6. ^ Ernst Ludwig Gerber, New Tonkünstler-Lexikon , Leipzig 1813/14.
  7. ^ "Letters to a friend about music in Berlin", in: Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung III (1800/01), Sp. 236–240; Quote Col. 237.
  8. ↑ Cf. “Paris, November 4th”, in: Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung IV (1801/02), Col. 156–157, here Col. 157.
  9. ^ Wilhelm Hitzig, "Joseph Woelfl's letters to Breitkopf & Härtel", in: Der Bär. Breitkopf and Härtel yearbook. 3 (1926), pp. 43-63; here p. 48.
  10. ^ The Times, no 6598, London, Friday, December 6, 1805
  11. ↑ See Baum (1928), p. 28.
  12. ↑ Woelfl, Joseph. In: G. Schilling: Universal Lexikon der Tonkunst. Volume 6, Stuttgart 1838, p. 882 f.
  13. ↑ Woelfl, Joseph. In: Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London 1879, p. 477 ff.
  14. ^ A center for virtuosos. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. September 3, 2016, p. 14.
  15. ↑ salzburg.com Salzburg Wiki
personal data
SURNAME Woelfl, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wölfl, Joseph Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Salzburg pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1812
Place of death London - Mary-Le-Bone