Andrea Luchesi (1741-1801) - Sinfonia in Do Maggiore (1784)

Buon compleanno Andrea Luchesi! 📯🎁 Composer: Andrea Luchesi (1741-1801) Work: Sinfonia in Do Maggiore (1784) Performers: Orchestra “Andrea Luchesi“; Agostino Granzοttο (conductor) Sinfonia in Do Maggiore (1784) 1. Largo, adagio assai, allegro assai 0:00 2. Andantino 12:02 3. Minuetto 19:09 4. Allegro assai 22:37 Drawing: Aleksander Orlowski (1777-1832) - Party at an inn HD image: Further info: Listen free: No available --- Andrea (Luca) Luchesi [Lucchesi, Lucchese] (Motta di Livenza, 23 May 1741 - Bonn, 21 March 1801) Italian composer and organist. Born into a family with noble ancestry, he received his earliest musical education from his brother Matteo, a local organist. In 1757 he moved to Venice, where patronage allowed him to study formally with a number of composers, including Baldassare Galuppi. By 1761 he was well known as a virtuoso on the organ, often performing publicly in addition to a post as organist at the church of San Salvatore. In 1765 his opera L’isola della fortuna was performed with some success at the Hoftheater in Vienna, and by 1771 he had become important enough that the Elector of Cologne, Archbishop Maximilian Ferdinand, brought him to his court in Bonn as the successor to Lodewijk van Beethoven. Apart from a sabbatical spent in Venice from 1783 to 1784, he remained there until his death. He was known as a fine teacher during his years in Bonn, and his pupils included Antonín Reicha, as well as both Andreas Romberg and Bernhard Romberg (Ludwig van Beethoven seems to be missing from this number, although he did perform under Luchesi’s direction in the Kapelle). Luchesi’s style is relatively straightforward, with good themes and solid formal structures that characterize the Austro-Italian music of the time. He wrote 12 operas, two oratorios, a Requiem and a Stabat mater, nine vespers, seven Masses, 16 hymns, seven antiphons, numerous other smaller sacred works, two concertos for keyboard, 12 symphonies, eight violin sonatas, a piano trio, and 34 smaller pieces for keyboard. Charles Burney labeled his music as “pleasing.”