Karl Stamitz - Sinfonia Concertante in F Major - I. Allegro b
Details
| Title | Karl Stamitz - Sinfonia Concertante in F Major - I. Allegro b |
| Author | LIMO Recording Studio |
| Duration | 4:10 |
| File Format | MP3 / MP4 |
| Original URL | https://youtube.com/watch?v=hspVA0X4Rcg |
Description
Sinfonia Concertante
The career of composer Carl Stamitz is closely associated with the Mannheim school, whose distinguished members included Carl's father Johann and brother Anton, and Ignaz Holzbauer, Franz Xaver Richter, and Johann Christian Cannabich. Carl Stamitz is generally considered to be the leading figure of the second generation of these composers, among which Cannabich and Stamitz's younger brother Anton are to be counted.
Karl Stamitz who later changed his given name to Carl, was a German composer of partial Czech ancestry (his mother was German), and a violin, viola and viola d'amore virtuoso. He was the most prominent representative of the second generation of the so-called Mannheim School. Carl Stamitz 1789. He was the first composer to specify a left-hand pizzicato (an important virtuoso device) in a composition. This occurs in his famous Viola Concerto in D major where the passage in question is designated by an "0" above the notes. This happened decades before Paganini would designate the same effect with an "X" above the notes.
