Johan Agrell

Johan Joachim Agrell ( born February 1, 1701 Löth in Östergötland, † January 19, 1765 in Nuremberg) was a Swedish composer and conductor.

His first musical training was the son of a pastor while studying in Uppsala. To 1723, he was appointed as a violinist and harpsichordist in the chapel of Prince Maximilian of Hesse -Kassel, the brother of the former Swedish King Frederick I of Hesse- Kassel. This resulted in an elaborate royal household at Castle Jesberg near Kassel. There Agrell learned next to Pietro Locatelli and Jean -Marie Leclair, among others, also know Johann Sebastian Bach. Due to increasing financial difficulties of his patron, he was next to it also worked repeatedly in the court orchestra at Cassel. Agrell 1746 became the "Director Chori Musici ", ie Head of the Council of music (" Music Choir " ) and the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg ordered. Here was one of his mandate is to lead the Council Music and the Choir of the Church of Our Lady at regular concerts and festive occasions in particular the composition of all types of music opportunity. In Nuremberg he met the later publisher of his works, Johann Ulrich Hafner, know. Agrell worked until his death almost twenty years in position of music director of the imperial city.

Agrell is stylistically attributable to the Baroque. His surviving works consist primarily of instrumental music, which were very popular at the time by their pleasing, not too demanding of making music. Of his works can be found in music libraries of Sweden, via England to southern Germany. 1738 Antonio Vivaldi led to one of his symphonies in Amsterdam. Agrells probably originally abundant vocal works are well and truly lost. In his music Agrell highly oriented in his early years at the then modern Italian music, particularly to Antonio Vivaldi. Later he takes, like, for example, Telemann's growing elements of the pre-classical period, notably the Mannheim school in his music. A significant contribution to the development of the delivered Agrell so-called " bourgeois Piano Concerto " and to replace the Symphony from the Opera and its development towards independent music form.

Works (selection)

• Concerti a cembalo obligato with strings (F- D-D -A -A -B-D -Dur)
• Concerti a cembalo obligato, traverso e violino concertato with strings, Op 4 (A - flat major, G major, B minor )
• Oboe Concerto in B flat major
• Concerto for Flute and Harpsichord in B major
• 6 sonatas for harpsichord solo, Nuremberg and London 1748
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major
• Symphonies in A major, D major, B flat minor, B flat major, inter alia,