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Composer: Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick (1755-1799)
Work: Concerto 1. | per il | Cembalo | No 137. | con accompagnamenti di dué Violini, | Alto è Basso; Oboi ò Flauti è Corni ad Libitum | Dedicato | Alla Signora Anetta Artaud | Dilettante di Cembalo (1782)
Performers: Hubert Schοοnbroodt (1941-1992, clavecin); Orchestre de Chambre Cartіgny; Gerard Cartіgny (conductor)
Concerto per il Cembalo (1782)
1. Allegro spirituoso 0:00
2. Largo non tanto 10:40
3. Rondo 15:08
Drawing: Clemens Kohl (1754-1807) after Johann Sollerer (1747-1809) - Chamber music showing a sextet of five male musicians seated around a woman at a fortepiano (1793)
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Engraving: Joseph de Longueil (1730-1792) - Le concert mecanique
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Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick [Gresnich, Gressenich]
(Liège, bap. 2 March 1755 - Paris, 16 October 1799)
Flemish composer. He was a chorister at St Lambert’s Cathedral in Liège at the age of nine. After studies at the Conservatorio di Sant’Onofrio a Porta Capuana in Naples, he performed some operas, with success, in Turin (1779) and Florence (1780). In 1786 he accompanied Gertrude Mara to London where he was hailed by the press and probably enjoyed the protection of the Prince of Wales. By 1794 he settled in Paris and during the height of the Reign of Terror, he began his Paris career, which was to continue with mixed success. Some of his works saw over a hundred performances at the Théâtre de la rue de Louvois. In 1797, after this theatre ceased performances, he devoted himself to concert and salon works, but later wrote many opéras comiques using different scenes of Paris. In 1799 his opera 'Le rêve' stirred considerable controversy, and rumors that his death was caused by intrigues related to this opera cannot be discounted. As a composer, his output include at least 19 operas, two concertos, a symphony and symphonies concertantes, several large hymns, and a number of smaller vocal works. His music reflects, among others, the style of François-Joseph Gossec, being simple and homophonic. Although, he was a highly versatile talent adapted easily to all genres.