Matthias Bamert, London Mozart Players - Contemporaries Of Mozart - Myslivecek: Symphonies (2004)
Composer: Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781) 约瑟夫·米斯里维切克/米斯利韦切克
Conductor: Matthias Bamert
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Mozart Players
Genre: Classical
Label: Chandos
Catalog Number: 10203 (http://www.chandos.net/details06.asp?CNumber=CHAN%2010203)
CD available From: 10 May 2004
米斯里维切克 (1737-1781),捷克裔意大利作曲家。1737年3月9日出生于波希米亚的 Horni Sarka。父亲是布拉格的一位磨房主。早年随哈伯曼(Fr. Habermann)和塞格(Josef Seger)学习音乐。1763年至意大利,师从威尼斯的音乐大师佩谢蒂(G.B. Pescetti)深造。他还曾担任过教堂的小提琴手。1767年,他的歌剧《拜勒罗弗特》(Il Bellerofonte)在那不勒斯公演获得成功,从此被意大利认可,进入歌剧的主流圈。在这里,他被称做“波希米亚人”(Il Boemo)。在音乐的其他领域,诸如交响曲、协奏曲、奏鸣曲等,他也显示出活跃的创造精神。与此同时,他也与祖国保持了密切的联系,他的几部歌剧和宗教剧,都曾在布拉格上演。1781年2月4日逝世于罗马。
米斯里维切克的作品包括《美狄亚》(Medea)、《罗莫洛与埃尔西利娅》等,宗教剧《阿布拉莫与伊萨科(Abramo ed Isacco)、《阿达莫与埃娃》(Adamo ed Eva)等,以及一些器乐曲和室内乐作品。据说莫扎特曾对他的作品表示钦佩。
Josef Myslivecek dropped out of university at the age of sixteen, and along with his twin brother became an apprentice to the family millers’ business. In 1758 both became journeymen, and in 1761, master millers. It was soon after this that Myslivecek decided to devote himself to music. He studied organ and composition and in 1763 left Prague for Venice where he studied operatic composition. He immediately became known as ‘Il Boemo’ (The Bohemian) because his name was impossible for the Italians to pronounce. Myslivecek’s first opera was staged in 1766 and a further opera was produced a year later for the birthday of the King of Naples, but despite this early success and the enormity of his output (which included concertos, a quantity of chamber music, some forty-five symphonies, oratorios and nearly thirty operas), Myslivecek died in abject poverty, in Rome, at the age of fifty-four.
Josef Myslivecek’s output of orchestral music offers some of the finest examples of a gracious eighteenth-century Italian symphonic style that is little heard today except for occasional performances of Sammartini, Boccherini and J.C. Bach, and a group of Italianate symphonies by W.A. Mozart. Myslivecek was the most talented symphonist resident in Italy at the time of Mozart’s visits in the early 1770s and he provided Mozart with many important stylistic models. In fact, Myslivecek was on friendly terms with both Leopold and Wolfgang Mozart for many years but the relationship soured in 1778 when Myslivecek failed to secure a promised operatic commission for Wolfgang.
Myslivecek’s symphonies contain a wealth of impressive orchestral techniques as well as exquisite slow movements. It is arguably possible to discern in his music some traces of a dynamic personality whose outstanding qualities were described by Mozart as ‘fire, spirit and life’.
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Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781) 约瑟夫·米斯里维切克
premiere recordings
Symphony in C major, F 26 9:16
in C-Dur - en ut majeur
1. I Allegro con spirito 4:14
2. II Andante 2:59
3. III Presto 2:03
Symphony in A major, F 27 8:54
in A-Dur - en la majeur
4. I Allegro con brio 3:47
5. II Andante 3:00
6. III Allegro 2:07
Symphony in F major, F 28 10:50
7. I Allegro 5:11
8. II Andante 3:14
9. III Presto 2:25
Symphony in D major, F 29 10:04
in D-Dur - en ré majeur
10. I Allegro assai 4:14
11. II Andante grazioso 2:56
12. III Prestissimo 2:54
Symphony in B flat major, F 30 10:09
in B-Dur - en si bémol majeur
13. I Allegro con spirito 4:00
14. II Andante 3:25
15. III Presto 2:44
Symphony in G major, F31 10:54
in G-Dur - en sol majeur
16. I Allegro con brio 5:11
17. II Andante 3:04
18. III Presto assai 2:37