Release Date: 12 January 1999
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 730099493529
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: SUPPE
Description
Franz von Suppe (1819-1895) Famous OverturesThe composer FranzSuppe, the possessor of an imposing string of names and title as FrancescoEzechiele Ermenegildo Cavaliere Suppe Demelli, was born in the Dalmatian townof Spalato (the modern Split) in 1819. His father, a civil servant in theservice of the Austrian Empire like his father before him, was of remoterBelgian origin, his mother Viennese by birth. Suppe made his career chiefly inVienna. As a boy he had no encouragement in music from his father, but washelped by a local bandmaster and by the Spalato cathedral choirmaster. His Missadalmatica dates from this early period. Following his father's wishes, hestudied law in Padua, while pursuing his musical interests privately,particularly during visits to Milan, where he heard operas by Rossini,Donizetti and the young Verdi and met the composers. The death of his father in1835 led to removal with his mother to Vienna, to the home of her parents. Herehe attempted courses at the Polytechnic and in the University School ofMedicine, before deciding on music as a profession. He now took lessons fromIgnaz von Seyfried and Simon Sechter, representatives of an earlier age ofViennese classicism, paying his way by giving Italian lessons, and in 1840 startedunpaid work as theatre conductor at the Theater in der Josefstadt, then underFranz Pokorn?¢, who was also associated with theatres in Baden, ?ûdenburg (nowSopron) and Pressburg (the modern Bratislava), spending the years from 1842 to1844 in the last of these. His first stage success came in 1841 with the comedywith songs Jung lustig, im Alter traurig oder Die Folgen der Erziehung ('Happyin Youth, Sad in Old Age or The Consequences of Education'). Earlier Italianoperas, Virginia written in 1837 and Gertrude della valle, composedin 1841 and shown to his visiting distant kinsman Donizetti, remainedunperformed, but from 1844 he was entrusted also with the direction of Italianoperas. These years were busy, allowing him to write a number of scores for theJosefstadt Theater and the other theatres, to conduct and, in ?ûdenburg in 1842,to appear as a singer, taking the part of Dulcamara in Donizetti's L'elisird'amore. In 1845 he moved to the Theater an der Wien, Schikaneder's old theatre,now acquired by Pokorn?¢. Here he remained for the next seventeen years, workingat first with Lortzing and, after 1848, with Adolf M??ller. These years saw thecomposition of a number of successful theatre pieces, Singspiel, operas andplays with songs, as well as a Requiem for Franz Pokorn?¢ in 1855.It was in 1860, with his two act operetta Das Pensionat forPokorn?¢'s son Alois, that Suppe first embarked on the genre of Vienneseoperetta at the Theater an der Wien. Two years later, with Alois Pokorn?¢'sbankruptcy, he became conductor at the Kaitheater, later destroyed by fire,moving then to the Carltheater with the actor-manager Carl Treumann. It washere, above all, that he established his reputation as a composer of lightopera, from
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
Veneto Po:Maag
Various
Various
