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Paul Wranitzky
(1756-1808)
Symphony
Grande Symphonie Charactéristique
pour la Paix avec la République Française
c min, op. 31
edited by Josef Wagner
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| size of the pocket score: | 22,4 x 16,6 cm |
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| price of the pocket score: | No.23P/550 | EUR 14,53 |
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| (size: A4, 29,7 x 21cm, 70 pages, spiral binding) |
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Paul Wranitzky (Pavel Vranický) was born on Dec. 30, 1756, at Nova Rise in western Moravia. A career in clergy seemed to be his destiny after attending the Premonstrant monastery’s school at his birthplace, the Jesuit grammar school at Jihlava and studies of theology at Olomouc and Vienna. In 1776 he entered the theological seminary in Vienna, where he was music master, and studied composition with Josef Haydn and the so-called “Swedish Mozart” Josef Martin Kraus. Around 1785 he became music director of count Johann Nepomuk Esterházy de Galantha (a side line of the Esterhazys, not identical to the main line at Eisenstadt/Kismarton, Haydn’s employers). From 1790 on he conducted as an orchestra director the excellent ensembles of the old court theatre and the Kärtnertor theatre. Here the best professional musicians were available for his symphonies and stage works. His fantasy opera “Oberon - the fairy king” of 1789 was one of the favourite works in this genre and inspired Schikaneder to the “Magic Flute”. Goethe adressed to him the proposed composition of a second part of the “Magic Flute”.
At the imperial court of Leopold II. and Franz II. he stood in high respect, he composed a coronation symphony for Franz II. (1792) and music for the private use of the empress Marie-Therese. Both as a man and a musician he was highly esteemed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven. He was Mozart's Brother in the Freemason’s lodge "Zur Gekrönten Hoffnung - To the Coronated Hope"and composed for the lodge, his masonic songs of 1785 are assumed to be lost. In December, 1797 he succeeded in Josef Haydns admission to the Tonkünstler-Sozietät. As concert master he conducted the premiere performances of Haydn’s oratorio "Die Schöpfung - The Creation" und of Beethoven’s first symphony. Carl Maria von Weber visited him in 1803. 1808 he died unexpectedly from typhoid fever and remained in an unjustified shadow of his more famous contemporaries.
Wranitzky’s music is original with a high musical and compositional standard. His musical idiom is characteristic for Viennese classicism, in some of his symphonies he is in closer touch with the politic events of his time without slipping into superficial painting. (Besides that "absolute music“ is a late 19th century’s intellectual chimera). His orchestration is colourful by knowing how to emphasize the effect of the different instruments. His contemporaries and his audience held his music in high esteem. The articles published only fifty years after his death are set in the tone of Teutonic titan-cult and German scholarship ("Wranitzky has to offer only pumpernickel from his compositions in the higher style", the musicologist Riehl wrote in 1861 in his "musical character heads“) and are therefore unfounded by a biased negative prejudice.
Wranitzky’s works have been catalogued by Postolka (1963), but there are still only very few modern editions available. The catalogue by Postolka (1967) lists the symphonies, 51 in number. The symphony op. 52 appeared in 1957, the symphony op. 11 in 1958 in score (Hradecky) published by the Czech Music Foundation (Cesky Hudebny Fond). The symphony op. 2 "The joy of the Hungarian Nation (A Magyar Nemzet Öröme)" has been edited in 1978 by Bonis in study score at Editio Musica Budapest. Stage works, sacred and profane vocal compositions, many concertos and his chamber music still wait for modern editions.
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Dr. Heinz Anderle is the scientific adviser of the music publisher Wolfgang Kiess. He is the promotor of the present series of works.
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