String Quartet Recital: Aviv Quartet

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Cat No: 8555952

Release Date: 08 January 2003

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 747313595228

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: String Quartet Recital

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Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812) String Quartets, Op. 14 Franz Anton Hoffmeister was born in Rothenburg am Neckar inMay 1754. At the age of fourteen he arrived in Vienna to study law, but wassoon so entranced by the city's rich and varied musical life that, upongraduating, he decided to devote his life to music. By the 1780s he had becomeone of the city's most popular composers, will an extensive and varied list ofworks to his credit. Hoffmeister's reputation today, however, rests almostexclusively on his activities as a music publisher. In 1785 he established oneof Vienna's first music publishing businesses, second only to Artaria & Co,which had ventured into this field only five years earlier. Over the nextfifteen years Hoffmeister issued works by many prominent Viennese composersamongst them Albrechtsberger, Clementi, Emanuel Aloys Forster, Pleyel, Wanhaland Paul Wranitzky. Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn are all represented in his vastcatalogue, Mozart by several important first editions including the PianoQuartet in G minor, K. 478, and the single String Quartet in D, K. 499,the "Hoffmeister" Quartet. Hoffmeister's publishing activities reached a peak in 1791,but thereafter he concentrated rather on composition. Most of his operas were composedand staged during the early 1790s, and this, combined with an apparent lack ofbusiness sense, led to a noticeable decline in production. In 1799 Hoffmeisterand the flautist Franz Thurner set off on a concert tour which was to havetaken them as far afield as London. In Leipzig, however, Hoffmeister met theorganist Ambrosius K??hnel, and ?áthe two must have decided to set up a musicpublishing partnership, for 'within a year' they had founded the Bureau de Musique,the future firm of C.F. Peters which is still active today. Until 1805 Hoffmeisterkept both the Viennese and the Leipzig publishing house going, but in March1805 he transferred sole ownership of the Bureau de Musique to K??hnel.His interest in the Viennese firm was waning too, for in 1806, apparently toallow time for composition, he sold his business to the Chemische Druckerey. As a composer Hoffmeister was highly respected by hiscontemporaries. This is evident from the entry in Gerber's Neues Lexikon derTonk??nstler published around The time of his death in 1812: If you were to take a glance at his many and variedworks, then you would have to admire the diligence and the cleverness of thiscomposer..... He earned for himself a well-deserved and widespread reputationthrough the original content of his works, which are not only rich in emotionalexpression but also distinguished by the interesting and suitable use ofinstruments and through good practicability. For this last trait we have tothank his knowledge of instruments, which is so evident that you might thinkthat he was a virtuoso on all of the instruments for which he wrote. Among Hoffmeister's many compositions works for the fluteare prominent, not only concerto
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