Franz Anton Hoffmeister

Franz Anton Hoffmeister is an Austrian type-setter , born with Rothenburg-amndts-Neckar on May 12th 1754 and dead on February 9th 1812.

Biography

He emigrates with Vienna in 1768 in order to study the right there but devotes himself quickly to the music. He receives lessons on behalf of the type-setter Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, future professor of Ludwig van Beethoven. Hoffmeister publishes its first symphonies in 1778 whereas it is named choirmaster of the Hungarian count Franz von Szécsényi.

It goes back to Vienna and is devoted since 1784 to the edition of its own works like those of type-setters like Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Clementi, Albrechtsberger, Dittersdorf or Vanhal.

Hoffmeister was the friend of Mozart who dedicated to him his string quartets Kv 499, while Beethoven called it " my expensive frère".

Some of its works are played at the time of the famous concerts Solomon with the beginning of the year 1790.

Principal works

Symphonies

Among his 66 symphonies, one will quote three of them (available to the disc with the London Mozart Players):

Symphony in semi major (1778)
Symphony in major D (1778)
Symphony in G major " Festa della Pace" (1791)

Concertos

60 concertos of which:

25 for flute
Concerto for viola and double bass
Concerto for 2 clarinets and orchestra in major E flat

Operas

Eight nowadays any more, they are not interpreted.

Chamber music

50 string quartets, of which string quartets COp 11 (1784)
Quintet for horn and cords in major E flat

External bonds

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