This release features two works by Johann Evangelist Brandl, a younger contemporary of Mozart. Their lives were hardly parallel, but both had to deal with the business of music — like finding employment. Brandl composed his Symphonie Concertante for just that purpose. He used the work as an audition piece for prospective employers (members of […]
Johann Evangelist Brandl
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Johann Brandl Symphonies — Music in Transition
Although mostly unknown today, Johann Evangelist Brandl was a well-respected composer and violinist at the turn of the 19th Century. His Op. 17 string quartets were dedicated to Haydn. In his later years, he was first violinist of the ducal orchestra in Karlsruhe. He eventually became the orchestra’s music director, working under kapellmeister Franz Danzi. […]