#kalliwoda

Kalliwoda | 2. Senfoni, Larghetto

Hacettepe Senfoni Orkestrası

22 Mart 2017 Çarşamba, 19:00 Kültür Merkezi M Salonu, Sıhhiye

J.W. Kalliwoda | Obua Konçertosu

L. Grondahl | Trombon Konçertosu

A. Alizade | Semplice

Kalliwoda was unknown to me until Tom brought along a CD of his 5th and 7th Symphonies to one of our music sessions. We were all astonished by the movement from the 5th which he played, and found it hard to believe that we'd been unaware of this fine composer until then. I went on to investigate further, and have continued to be impressed.

He was born in Prague in 1801. After four years at the newly-founded Prague Conservatory he became a member of the Prague Theatre Orchestra before embarking on a career as a touring violinist in Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany. Finally, for almost forty years (from 1822 until his retirement in 1865) he was Kapellmeister at the Court in Donaueschingen in Germany. He has over 450 scores to his credit of which 244 were published with opus numbers. He wrote in a wide variety of genres that included two operas; ten masses; seven symphonies and 16 or 18 overtures. His reputation as a composer gradually spread, and his New Overture in D was played at the founding and first concert of the New York Philharmonic, then known as the ‘Philharmonic Society’ of New York, held at the Apollo Rooms in Lower Broadway on 7th December 1842.