Five more #ContemporariesOfHaydn 🧵
#26 Pieter van Maldere (1729-1768)
Maldere visited Dublin, Paris and Vienna as a violin virtuoso before returning to his native Brussels. His 40 symphonies circulated far and wide, from Sweden to the New World. Haydn, Mozart and Dittersdorf all knew his work.
#26 Pieter van Maldere (1729-1768)
Maldere visited Dublin, Paris and Vienna as a violin virtuoso before returning to his native Brussels. His 40 symphonies circulated far and wide, from Sweden to the New World. Haydn, Mozart and Dittersdorf all knew his work.
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Taught by one of Mannheim's main men Franz Xaver Richter (more on him next week), German-born
Rigel Frenchified his name and moved to Paris where his symphonies and opéras-comiques were hits. His son Henri-Jean was personal pianist to Napoleon.
The eldest son of Mannheim's mainest man Johann Stamitz, Carl was literally born to be a composer. His symphonies were successful and he toured from London to St. Petersburg, but after giving up music for alchemy he failed to turn lead into gold, and died in poverty.
Another musician who changed his name for fame, Bohemia-born Rosetti produced a stream of symphonies as court composer to Kraft Ernst, Prince von Öttingen-Wallerstein. Rosetti left the post in 1789, at which point the Prince began buying his symphonies from Haydn.
When Haydn's London symphonies were taking the city by storm in the early 1790s, a rival concert series hired Haydn's favourite pupil Pleyel to compose symphonies like this one in competition. Pleyel went on to be a famous piano builder and publisher in Paris.
Plus Haydn and CPE Bach are GOAT.