Musicology
12-22-2010, 05:23 PM
MUSICAL CHAIRS
This remarkable work -
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Clarinet Concerto 1 in C minor op. 26
1st Movement
Adagio-Allegro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVcyRizubIc
A work of 1843 describes Spohr as follows -
''The works of Spohr take their place among the master-pieces of Bach, Handel, Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber and Cherubini. They have long enjoyed that distinction and nothing can now remove them from the rock upon which they are fixed … their influence will survive until art is on its death-bed''.
(Musical World, xviii, 1843, p.259)
The immortal Spohr has somehow been forgotten. But not before he described the late string quartets of the immortal Beethoven as follows -
"We know there is something there, but we do not know what it is. They are indecipherable, uncorrected horrors‘.
And here is something just as unusual. The theme heard above in Spohr’s Clarinet Concerto is also here in the first movement of a symphony attributed to Josef Haydn, from over 10 years earlier. Known as Symphony Number 95.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZwJJg9N35U
But that’s not all. Joseph Haydn’s Symphony 95 is definitely not by Joseph Haydn. It came from Bonn. Haydn visited Bonn several times on his way to concerts in England. It most probably comes from a little known third composer who was the young Beethoven’s teacher there. Andrea Luchesi. (1741-1801).
This remarkable work -
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Clarinet Concerto 1 in C minor op. 26
1st Movement
Adagio-Allegro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVcyRizubIc
A work of 1843 describes Spohr as follows -
''The works of Spohr take their place among the master-pieces of Bach, Handel, Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber and Cherubini. They have long enjoyed that distinction and nothing can now remove them from the rock upon which they are fixed … their influence will survive until art is on its death-bed''.
(Musical World, xviii, 1843, p.259)
The immortal Spohr has somehow been forgotten. But not before he described the late string quartets of the immortal Beethoven as follows -
"We know there is something there, but we do not know what it is. They are indecipherable, uncorrected horrors‘.
And here is something just as unusual. The theme heard above in Spohr’s Clarinet Concerto is also here in the first movement of a symphony attributed to Josef Haydn, from over 10 years earlier. Known as Symphony Number 95.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZwJJg9N35U
But that’s not all. Joseph Haydn’s Symphony 95 is definitely not by Joseph Haydn. It came from Bonn. Haydn visited Bonn several times on his way to concerts in England. It most probably comes from a little known third composer who was the young Beethoven’s teacher there. Andrea Luchesi. (1741-1801).