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Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812): Sonatas for piano, Vol. 1 / Biliana Tzinlikova, piano
Posted by Paul Ballyk on Apr 10, 2015 in Classical | 0 comments
This beautifully recorded Grand Piano disc is the first of a planned series of the complete keyboard music of Franz Hoffmeister. All world premiere recordings, the program is played with sensitivity, spirit and sparkle on a modern grand piano by Bulgarian pianist Biliana Tzinlikova.
Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812) was born in Rothenburg am Neckar, a medium-sized town lying about 30 miles southwest of Stuttgart. At the age of fourteen, he moved to Vienna to study law, where he simultaneously perused his interests in music. He completed his studies, passed the bar exams and was qualified to practice law, but very shortly afterward chose a career in music. He also began a music publishing business, initially for the distribution of his own work, but was soon printing scores for many of the leading composers of his time, including Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Pleyel and Clementi.
Working in many genres, Hoffmeister produced a large body of work, including sacred and secular vocal music, symphonies, concertos, chamber music, stage works and some twenty or so sonatas and sonatinas for solo keyboard. This generously-filled disc offers three sonatas and the Variations for Piano in C Major. The style of Hoffmeister's writing is representative of his time, when Mozart, Haydn, Clementi and Beethoven were active. Generally, his keyboard oeuvre as it is heard here is probably most suggestive of Haydn and early Beethoven. The audio sample I've provided for the recording, with the kind permission of the Grand Piano label, is the final Presto movement of the Piano Sonata in A Major of 1790. His pleasant, melodic music has, in the late 20th century, enjoyed a resurgence of interest, kindled particularly by flautists who have discovered his charming twelve flute quintets.
Pianist Biliana Tzinlikova has a background steeped in this repertoire, having studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Andor Losonczy, Christoph Lieske and Menahem Pressler among others following her undergraduate studies at the Sofia State Music Academy. If you enjoy well-crafted keyboard music of the classical era played on a modern instrument, you can't go wrong acquiring this.
Franz Anton Hoffmeister is associated with composers such as Haydn and Mozart through his involvement in Viennese music publishing. His Piano Sonatas are models of 18th-century craftsmanship, combining the wit and display demanded of contemporary audiences with elements of operatic drama and poignancy. The Variations explore the dramatic possibilities of the keyboard, reflecting the Vienna of early Beethoven.
Source: Naxos/Grand Piano
 Franz Anton Hoffmeister |
Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754 – 1812) was a German composer and music publisher. Franz Anton Hoffmeister was born in Rottenburg am Neckar on 12 May 1754. At the age of fourteen he went to Vienna to study law. Following his studies, however, he decided on a career in music and by the 1780s he had become one of the city’s most popular composers, with an extensive and varied catalogue of works to his credit. Hoffmeister’s reputation today rests mainly on his activities as a music publisher. By 1785 he had established one of Vienna’s first music publishing businesses, second only to Artaria & Co, which had ventured into the field five years earlier. Hoffmeister published his own works as well as those of many important composers of the time, including Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Clementi, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf and Johann Baptist Wanhal. These famous composers were also among Hoffmeister’s personal friends: Mozart dedicated his String Quartet in D to him and Beethoven addressed him in a letter as my “most beloved brother”. Prominent in Hoffmeister’s extensive oeuvre are works for the flute, including more than 25 concertos as well as chamber works with the flute in a leading role. Many of these works would have been composed with Vienna’s growing number of amateur musicians in mind, for whom the flute was one of the most favoured instruments. Hoffmeister also composed at least eight operas, over 50 symphonies, numerous concertos (including an often-played concerto for the viola), a large amount of string chamber music, piano music and several collections of songs. Source: Wikipedia |
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Biliana Tzinlikova |
Biliana Tzinlikova, piano Biliana Tzinlikova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1974. After piano studies at the Sofia State Music Academy (Marina Kapazinskaja) she moved to the Salzburg Mozarteum to work with Andor Losonczy and Christoph Lieske, completing her studies with distinction in 2001. She went on to participate in masterclasses with Paul van Ness, Arndzej Jaszinsky, Pierre Amoyal, Pavel Gililov, Menahem Pressler, Alexander Lonquich, Klaus-Christian Schuster, and Claude Frank, influenced in particular by contact and work with Ruggiero Ricci and Ferenz Rados. She has appeared as a soloist and chamber-music player in important festivals and events in Europe and the United States. From 2003 to 2005 she was a member of the Munich Philharmonic Trio and in 2004 made her début at the Vienna Konzerthaus, continuing to collaborate with leading musicians. She is interested in the work of living composers and in piano rarities from the past and has taught at the Mozarteum since 2001. Source: Naxos |
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