Fritz: 5 Sinfonias op. 1 & op. 6

La Stagione Frankfurt;
Schneider, Michael

CPO 777 696-2

What do we know about the Swiss music world of the eighteenth century? Well, in most cases, next to nothing; but, as often, Charles Burney, the European traveler in things musical, holds new discoveries in store. When he visited Geneva, he met Gaspard Fritz: »M. Fritz, a good composer, and excellent performer on the violin, is still living; he has resided here near thirty years, and is well known to all the English lovers of music who have visited Geneva during that time.« Apart from his study years in Turin with Giovanni Battista Somis, who was also Leclair's teacher, Fritz hardly left his native Geneva. It was also in Geneva that Fritz served from 1738 to 1745 as the music director of a group of young English nobles who had come together there for the purposes of study. Fritz was also a gifted violinist who continued to perform as a soloist into his older years. His music is Sturm und Drang, Storm and Stress, at his finest, full of power, and on the same high level as the Mannheim School. A genuine discovery!

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Muzyka klasyczna

CPO

16-01-2013

761203769629