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Composer: Václav Tomáš Matějka (1773-1830)
Work: Notturno in G,
Performers: Tríο Matiеgka de Buеnοs Airеs
Painting: Jacques Sablet (1749-1803) - L’Heureuse Famille
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Václav (Wenzel) Tomáš Matějka [Matiegka]
(Choceň, bap. 6 July 1773 - Vienna, 19 January 1830)
Austrian composer, guitarist and Kapellmeister of Czech descent. His earliest musical training was as a chorister in Kroměříž. In the late 1780s he studied law in Prague, where he developed into a promising keyboard performer under the Abbé Gelinek. After a short tenure as a legal functionary for Count Kinsky, Matiegka mov