Pieter van Maldere

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Pieter (Pierre) van Maldere (born October 16, 1729 in Brussels ; † November 1, 1768 there ) was a Belgian violinist and pre-classical composer .

Life

Little is known about van Malderes' youth, he probably received violin and composition lessons from the conductor of the court orchestra, Jean-Joseph Fiocco and Henri-Jacques de Croes . From 1749 van Maldere worked as a violinist with his brothers Guillaume and Jean-Baptiste at the court of the governor-general of the Habsburg Netherlands, Karl Alexander von Lothringen . From 1751 to 1753 he worked in Dublin as director of the " Philarmonick Concerts ". In August 1754 he performed at the Concert spirituel in Paris. He accompanied his employer on numerous trips, including to Prague and Vienna, where his first two opera buffets were performed in Schönbrunn Palace . In 1757 he gave a solo performance for the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa in Vienna . In 1758 he was appointed valet to the prince, who made him head of the Monnaie Theater for a period of seven years in 1763 , which ended in financial disaster for van Maldere three years later. At the Monnaie he was mainly responsible for the selection of the repertoire and the musical direction of his own and French operas.

Works

His first chamber music works adhere to late Baroque forms and are under the influence of Arcangelo Corelli , without foregoing more recent technical achievements such as complicated double stops, intermittent jumps or broken chords in the upper part. Historically and aesthetically, his symphonies form a transition from the Italian or early Mannheim school to the classical Viennese symphony . While the first symphonies are purely string works, obbligato horns and oboes were added from 1764.

  • Numerous violin and trio sonatas published between 1756 and 1778.
  • 3 trios for harpsichord, violin and cello op. 7 were published posthumously by his brother Guillaume van Maldere in 1774 and 1778 respectively.
  • Overtures
  • 1 violin concerto (performed at the Concert spirituel 1754)
  • A total of 45 symphonies, including
    • Sei sinfonie a più stromenti (dedicated to the Duke d'Antin around 1760)
    • Be the symphony a più stromenti (Paris 1762) without a figured bass, with influences from the Mannheim school
    • Simphonie périodique à più stromenti in B flat major (Lyon, 1764)
    • Sei sinfonie a più stromenti op.4 (Paris and Lyon 1764)
    • Sei symphony a più stromenti op.5 (Paris 1769)

Operas

  • Le Déguisement pastoral (Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace , July 12, 1756)
  • Les Amours champêtres (Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace, November 5, 1758)
  • La Bagarre (Paris, February 10, 1763)
  • Le Médecin de l'amour (1766 in Brussels)
  • Le Soldat par amour together with Ignaz Vitzthumb (Brussels, November 4, 1766)

literature

  • Suzanne Clercx-Lejeune (1910–1985): Pierre van Maldere, virtuoso et maître des concerts de Charles de Lorraine (1729–1768) . Bruxelles: Palais des Académies, 1948.
  • Willy van Rompaey: Pieter van Maldere, 1729–1768. Thematic catalogus van de instrumentale works . Aartselaar 1990.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Clive Unger-Hamilton, Neil Fairbairn, Derek Walters; German arrangement: Christian Barth, Holger Fliessbach, Horst Leuchtmann, et al .: The music - 1000 years of illustrated music history . Unipart-Verlag, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-8122-0132-1 , p. 87 f .
personal data
SURNAME Maldere, Pieter van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maldere, Pierre van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian composer and violinist of the pre-classical period
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1768
Place of death Brussels