Antoine de Lhoyer (1768-1852) - Concerto pour la Guitarre (1799)

Joyeux anniversaire Antoine de Lhoyer! 🍷🎉 Composer: Antoine de Lhoyer (1768-1852) Work: Concerto (en la majeur) pour la Guitarre, oeuvre 16 (1799) Performers: Reinbert Evеrs (guitar); Saint Christophеr Orchestra; Donаtаs Kаtkus (conductor) Concerto pour la Guitarre (1799) 1. Allegro moderato 0:00 2. Rondo 12:26 Drawing: George Cruikshank (1792-1878) - Humming Birds, or A Dandy Trio (1819) HD image: Drawing: Rudolph Ackermann (1764-1834) - Evening Dress HD image: Further info: Listen free: No available --- Antoine de Lhoyer [L’Hoyer] (Clermont-Ferrand, 6 September 1768 - Paris, 15 March 1852) French guitarist and composer. At the age of 20 he embarked upon a military career, but the French Revolution prompted his emigration in 1791. By 1792, in Koblenz he had enlisted with the armée des Princes which joined with an allied army of Prussian and Austrian soldiers led by the Duke of Brunswick in an unsuccessful invasion of France in 1792. The years 1794-97 saw him participating in the campaigns with the Austrian army, and in 1799-1800 he served with counter revolutionary forces in the Army of Condé. He was wounded in battle and lost the use of his right hand for three years. He took refuge in Hamburg where he settled as a guitar teacher, but in 1802 left for St Petersburg where he remained for ten years as a guitarist at the tsar’s court. He returned to France in 1812, and rejoined the army after the Restoration of Louis XVIII in 1814. Between 1820 and 1825, he established his home in nearby Niort where he married and had four children. Possibly due to the decline in popularity of the guitar in salon music, replaced by the increasingly popular pianoforte, no more music of Lhoyer appears to have been published from 1826 onward. In 1831, he established his home in Aix-en-Provence staying there until 1836. Next he took his family to Algeria settling near the capital Algiers and then finally in 1852 to Paris where he died in poverty.