Franz Clement

Franz Joseph Clement ( born November 18, 1780 in Vienna, † November 3, 1842 ) was an Austrian violinist, pianist, conductor and composer.

Life

Franz Clement's father was a panel Decker, paths director and violinist in the private chapel of the General Feldzeugmeister Count of Harsch and taught himself his son playing the violin from 4 to 7 years. He then studied with the violinist Franz Kurzweil the Elder. Clement made ​​his debut at the age of 9 years in the Vienna Hofburg theater at its Diminutivgeige. He toured as a " prodigy " by the Netherlands and England, accompanied by his father ( until 1792 ), among others, he played in the promotion of Joseph Haydn on June 7, 1791 in Oxford.

1802 Clement orchestra at the Theater an der Wien. Because he needed a showpiece for the performance at Christmas in 1806, he gave Ludwig van Beethoven commissioned to compose a violin concerto for the run by himself Academy. On December 23, 1806, he brought Beethoven's Violin Concerto premiered without having has sufficient trial period. The brilliant virtuoso mastered the task with flying colors. Clement loved his lecture to be provided with Effectchen. So was mentioned concert on the placards on the above as a special point: " If Mr. Clement delirious on the violin and play a sonata on a single string with reverse Violin. " In the meantime (1813 ) he was appointed Carl Maria von Weber as orchestra director to Prague.

Clement, who was also an excellent pianist, is known to posterity because of his exceptional musical memory. So Zinner made a piano reduction of Haydn's The Creation and Cherubini's opera Franiska from memory.

At the age he was regarded as a strange and difficult character, he is said to have worn the same lightweight skirt in summer and winter and have been sorely neglected. He died in a cafe on the Laimgrube. His wife Gwendolyn Theresa was already deceased in 1831. Clements grave stone on the former Währinger local cemetery is maintained.

Works

Orchestra

Solo works for violin

  • 8 solo variations
  • 6 solo etudes
  • 6 solo variations
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