Ryba: 2 String Quartets / 2 Flute Quartets

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Cat No: 8557729

Release Date: 07 January 2006

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 747313272921

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: RYBA

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Jakub Jan Ryba (1765-1815) Flute Quartets · String Quartets Relatively little survives of the instrumental music of the Czech composer Jakub Jan Ryba. Indeed the present four quartets, two for flute, violin, viola and cello and two for string quartet are the only four quartets remaining out of 72 once listed. Ryba was the son of a cantor, a local schoolmaster, and followed his father's profession, one of continuing traditional importance in the fostering of music in Bohemia and the adjacent regions. Born in Přeštice, near Klatovy, in 1765, he studied in Nepomuk with his father and from 1781 to 1785 was a pupil at the Piarist Gymnasium in Prague, before returning home to work as an assistant to his father. In addition to his abilities as a keyboard player, having studied the piano and the organ with his father, as well as the violin, he also played the cello. In 1786 he became an assistant teacher at Mnišek and two years later took up a similar appointment at Rozmitál, where he served as choirmaster until his death by his own hand in 1815. Ryba's church music, of which there is a considerable quantity, including some ninety Masses, seven Requiems and a hundred or more graduals, motets and other works, represents the largest body of his surviving compositions. For his earlier compositions he used an imaginative variety of names, Poisson, Peace, Ryballandini, Rybaville, which suggest a certain sense of humour. His ambitious works for the Church of St Bartholomew in Pilsen earned him in 1805 the title of honorary citizen. His secular music includes Czech songs and a very large amount of orchestral and instrumental music, now lost. For the useful compilation on Czech music and musicians of the period by the Bohemian Premonstratensian scholar Bohumir Dlabač, choirmaster and librarian at Strahov, Ryba listed among his instrumental works over 650 dances, 130 variations, 87 sonatas, 38 concertos, 35 symphonies and many other compositions. He holds an important position in the Bohemian musical tradition of schoolmasters of his time, fostering the Czech language in musical settings and in musical terminology, and a supporter of the educational reforms initiated under Joseph II. His surviving instrumental music shows the influence of his contemporaries, of composers such as Vaňhal and Mysliveček, and of Haydn and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The two surviving Flute Quartets date from 1811 and survived in the collection of the Rozmitál Regens Chori Schmelzer. The Flute Quartet in C major starts with a sonata-form movement of transparent texture. After the statement of the main theme the cello has moments of attention, as the key shifts to the dominant for the second subject. Here, in the central development and in the recapitulation, each instrument is allowed its due share of interest. The F major slow movement, marked Andante poco adagio, gives the principal theme to the flute, accompanied by t
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