Wolf, E.w.: 4 Symphonies

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Cat No: 8557132

Release Date: 07 January 2005

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 747313213221

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: WOLF, E.W.

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Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (1735-1792)Four SymphoniesErnst Wilhelm Wolf spent thirty years as CourtKapellmeister in the German artistic centre of Weimarin Thuringia. Until today his importance has seemed tolie in his r??le of Court Kapellmeister rather than in hiscreative work. With his compositions for piano andSingspiel his orchestral works have had little mention, afact that it is hoped to remedy with the presentrecording.Ernst Wilhelm Wolf was baptized on 25th February1735 at Grossen Behringen near Gotha and had earlyexperience as a keyboard-player. His brother ErnstFriedrich, city organist at Kahla on the Saale, influencedand taught his younger brother. Wolf took his firstindependent step at school in Eisenach, where hequickly rose to the position of choir prefect. At this timewe know that he was already active as a composer, withseveral arias and motets. Yet it was his period at schoolin Gotha that proved musically formative for him. Herehe heard the very competent ducal musicalestablishment in concerts and here he heard Carl PhlippEmanuel Bach play the organ in 1752. The young ErnstWilhelm was also busy with the arias of Johann AdolfHasse, then in the service of the Dresden Court Kapelle.There were also the compositions of the PrussianKapellmeisters Carl Heinrih Graun and Carl PhilippEmanuel Bach, which were to have a lasting influenceon Wolf's whole work. There were also thecompositions of the Prussian Kapellmeisters CarlHeinrich Graun and Carl Phlipp Emanuel Bach, whichwere to have a lasting influence on Wolf's work. Theseleft a particular mark on Wolf's church music (Graun)and his keyboard music (Bach), while the decisiveinfluence for his symphonies came later in Weimar.Student life then took Wolf to the ThuringianUniversity of Jena, in which he was more involved withmusic than with his studies. As director of the universityCollegium Musicum he found his first enduring place inThuringian music history.How exactly he came to the nearby city of Weimaris not known. Wolf himself left only a somewhatincredible anecdote of a Herr von Ponikau, who tookhim there in the course of a journey. Yet, however ithappened, Weimar was, for the rest of his life, thecentre of his musical activities.It was in 1761 that Wolf came to Weimar, thenruled by the young Duchess Anna Amalia. It was herendeavour to make her country residence a centre forliterature and the arts. Wolf's first duties were as akeyboard teacher. He was initially the teacher of the twosons of Anna Amalia, who before long established arelationship with him that continued for many years.After his arrival in Weimar, Wolf was soon serving asconductor at the regular concerts every Saturday at theSchloss Belvedere near Weimar. When the WeimarCourt Organist Vogler died, two years after Wolf'sarrival in Weimar, Anna Amalia appointed himVogler's successor in 1763. After his marriage in 1770to the singer Karoline Benda, daughter of the famousFranz Benda, Kapellmeister to King Friedrich II, hebecame not only
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