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| Schloss Ludwigslust the place Johann Matthias Sperger was based mostly from 1789 till his dying (Picture: Matthias Süßen – Personal work, CC BY-SA 4.0) |
Johann Matthias Sperger (1750-1812) was a reputation that was new to me. He was a distinguished Austrian contrabass virtuoso and composer with a major physique of labor to his identify. Born in Feldsburg in what was then Austria however is now Valtice within the Czech Republic, his identify could effectively initially have been Jan Matyáš Sperger.
He studied in Vienna and will have been a pupil of Albrechtsberger. From 1777 he labored for the Archbishop of Pressburg (now Bratislava). He then went on prolonged live performance excursions that made him well-known as a contrabass virtuoso and composer, each at house and overseas. In 1789 the courtroom of Archduke Friedrich Franz I in Ludwigslust (a Baroque palace some 40km south of Schwerin) appointed Sperger to the place of principal contrabass within the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Courtroom orchestra, the place he remained the remainder of his life.
Sperger produced some forty symphonies and quite a few instrumental concertos, together with eighteen for double bass. There’s a probability to listen to one on 23 February at Kings Place when Leon Bosch directs The Hanover Band within the first fashionable efficiency of Sperger’s Cello Concerto in C with soloist Sebastian Comberti in a programme that additionally contains Cimarosa’s Oboe Concerto (with soloist Geoff Coates) and symphonies by Haydn and Mozart.
Full particulars from Kings Place web site.
