Wydawnictwo: Challenge Classics
Nr katalogowy: CC 72317
Nośnik: 2 CD
Data wydania: listopad 2009
EAN: 608917231724
Nr katalogowy: CC 72317
Nośnik: 2 CD
Data wydania: listopad 2009
EAN: 608917231724
Graun: Concertos For Strings
Challenge Classics - CC 72317
Kompozytor
Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703-1771)
Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703-1771)
Wykonawcy
Ilia Korol, violine & Viola solo
Piroska Batori, violine
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Ilia Korol, violine & Viola solo
Piroska Batori, violine
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Utwory na płycie:
Johann Gottlieb Graun was born in 1701 or 1702 in Wahrenbrück. He studied for several months between 1721 and 1723 with Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) in Padua. Tartini had a lasting impression on the young Graun; this can also be heard in his compositions. In 1740 Graun was nominated as concertmaster and conductor at the court-orchestra of Frederick II of Prussia. Graun’s duties included having to scout for new talent for the orchestra, and the direction of the court concerts in Berlin. After the Seven Years’ War, Graun retired from active duty for reasons of health. He died, highly esteemed, on 7 October 1771 in Berlin. Instrumental works utterly dominate the extensive oeuvre of Johann Gottlieb Graun as a composer. It is hardly surprising that among them – besides overtures, symphonies, quartets, trios and wind concertos – he wrote a great number of concertos and solo Sonatas for the