Anton Reicha

Anton Reicha (also: Antonín, Antoine -Joseph Reicha or Rejcha, see below) ( born February 26, 1770 in Prague, † May 28, 1836 in Paris) was a Bohemian composer, music teacher and flutist who in his major artistic successes Paris celebrated.

Name

The written in Latin Geburts-/Taufkunde Tyn Cathedral in Prague leads to the name Antonius Josephus Reicha. Reicha was called in Vienna but Anton Reicha in Paris and he was officially called Antoine -Joseph Reicha (see death certificate ).

Life

Reicha's father was a town musician in Prague, but died ten months after his son's birth. Anton Reicha's uncle, the cellist and conductor of Oettingen- Wallerstein court orchestra Joseph Reicha, adopted him at the age of ten years, took him in 1781 to his home in Wallerstein on and taught himself to violin, flute, piano and music theory.

In 1785 he moved with his uncle, who was the bandmaster of the electoral court orchestra in Bonn. In this orchestra Anton Reicha played as second flutist. During this time he met Ludwig van Beethoven know who played the viola in the same orchestra. The two shared a long-lasting friendship.

After the dissolution of the Bonn court orchestra in 1794 ( during the French occupation of Rhineland- ) went Reicha as a music teacher to Hamburg. From 1802 to 1808 he lived in Vienna and had as a composer of music opportunity considerable success. Here he took lessons from Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and Antonio Salieri. In 1808 he moved to Paris, where he gained a great reputation as a composer for winds. Since 1809, he taught at the Paris Conservatoire, and in 1818 he became the successor of Etienne- Nicolas Mehul professor of composition. In 1831 he was awarded the Legion of Honor.

His students include Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Charles Gounod, Georges Onslow, César Franck and Justus Amadeus Lecerf.

With his band composition Musique pour la Mémoire célébrer des Grands Hommes et des Grands Événements de la République française, also known by the equally unwieldy title Musique [ funebre ] pour la memoire des grands hommes célébrer, qui se sont illustrés au service de la Nation française is known Reicha continues the good tradition of Concert symphonies, as they had François -Joseph Gossec, Louis Emmanuel Jadin, Hyacinthe Jadin and composed. It prepares Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale, op 15, (1840 ) before. Before the performance, Reicha was extensive, detailed instructions to the musicians.

Best known Reicha stayed until today by its more than 20 in some cases very virtuosic woodwind quintets. His writings on the theory of composition were very influential and have been translated into several languages.

Works

Writings

  • Cours de composition musicale ou traité complet d'harmonie pratique et raisonné, Paris in 1816, Gambaro
  • Traité de mélodie, Paris 1814, self-published
  • Traité de haute composition musicale I / II, Paris 1824 Costallat

These three writings Franco- German as:

  • Compositionslehre, Translated by Carl Czerny. Diabelli, Vienna 1832 Vol 1 part = 1-3. Treatise of practical harmony.
  • Vol 2 = 4 part memoir of the melody. Internet Archive
  • Vol 3 = part 5-7. Treatise of higher musical composition or the counterpoint, the imitation and the Canons. Internet Archive
  • Vol 4 = Theil 8-10. Treatise of the joint, and from art, to use his ideas, or the same to develop. Internet Archive

Works for Orchestra

Works for wind

Religious and fairs

Chamber Music

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