Release Date: 01 January 2000
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 730099496025
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: CANNABICH
Description
Christian Cannabich(1731-1798) Symphonies Nos. 59,63, 64, 67, 68In 1777 Mozart visitedMannheim in his search for more suitable employment than he had found in hisnative Salzburg. He found there one of the most proficient orchestras inEurope, described by Charles Burney in 1772 as an army of generals, 'equallyfit to plan a battle as to fight it'. He was entertained with great kindness byChristian Cannabich, the director of instrumental music at the court of theElector Palatine, and his family. When no opportunity offered itself at thecourt in Mannheim, Mozart and his mother travelled on to Paris and it wasthere, in early July, that his mother died. It was in a letter breaking thisnews to his father in Salzburg, that Mozart was explicit in his praise ofCannabich and his musicians. In Mannheim, he points out, matters are treatedseriously, unlike the situation in Salzburg, and Cannabich, the best conductorhe has ever seen, is both loved and feared by his subordinates, respected bythe whole town, as are his soldiers. The praise is significant coming fromMozart, who often found much to criticize in the musicians he met.Christian Cannabichwas born in Mannheim in 1731, the third child of the court musician MartinFriedrich Cannabich, an oboist and flautist, who had served in the musicalestablishment of the Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm in D??sseldorf, a body ofmusicians amalgamated in 1718 by Johann Wilhelm's successor, the Elector CarlPhilipp, with his own musicians, establishing a capital now in Heidelberg. In1720 the court, with its musical establishment soon increased to 56, moved toMannheim. The number of musicians grew considerably under Carl Philipp'ssuccessor, the Elector Carl Theodor, who presided over a court that had nowbecome one of the most brilliant in Europe. The instrumental music, from 1750,was under the direction of Johann Stamitz, who had joined the establishment in1741/42, and it was under his energetic leadership that the orchestra achievedan astonishingly high level of discipline and proficiency.Martin FriedrichCannabich, much respected and amply rewarded by the Elector, to whom he gaveflute lessons, was pensioned in 1752/53 and died in 1759. His son Christian wasa violin pupil of Johann Stamitz and joined the orchestra as a 'scholar' in1744, becoming a court musician two years later In. 1750 Cannabich was sent toRome to study with Nicol?? Jommelli and in 1753 went with him to Stuttgart, whenthe latter was appointed Ober-Kapellmeister in the musical establishment ofDuke Karl Eugen of W??rttemberg, building there an orchestra of similarbrilliance to that in Mannheim. Cannabich returned to Italy the following year,to Milan, where he took lessons from Giovanni Battista Sammartini. In late 1756or early 1757 he returned to Mannheim, rejoining the orchestra as the third ofthe first violins, promoted in 1758 or 1759 to the position of concert-master,shared with the violinist Carl Joseph Toeschi. In 1759 he married MariaElisabetha de la Mo
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yang/Schwabe/Dt So/Wit
Wolf Harden
Wolf Harden
