František Xaver Brixi (1732-1771) - Concerto ex C a Viola Principali

Všechno nejlepší k narozeninám František Xaver Brixi! 🥂🎻 Composer: František Xaver Brixi (1732-1771) Work: Concerto ex C a Viola Principali Performers: Jаn Pěruškа (viola); Chamber Orchestra from members of the Czеch PhiIharmonic Orchestra; Andrеаs Sеbаstiаn Wеisеr (conductor) Concerto ex C a Viola Principali 1. Allegro moderato 0:00 2. Adagio 8:47 3. Finale 16:24 Painting: Franz Christoph Janneck (1703-1761) - Festive gathering in an interior HD image: https://flic.kr/p/2o8NvNb Engraving: Gérard de Lairesse (1641-1711) - An allegorical woman playing viola, standing amid cloud burst (c.1685) HD image: https://flic.kr/p/2o63KpL Further info: https://cdmusic.cz/en/old-czech-music... Listen free: No available --- František Xaver Brixi (Prague, 2 January 1732 - Prague, 14 October 1771) Bohemian organist and composer, son of Šimon Brixi (1693-1735). He received his musical education at the Piarist Gymnasium in Kosmonosy. His teachers included Václav Kalous, a significant composer. In 1749 he left Kosmonosy and returned to Prague, where he worked as an organist at several churches. In 1759 he was appointed Regens chori (choir director) and Kapellmeister of St Vitus Cathedral, thus attaining, at age 27, the highest musical position in the city; this office he held till his early death. He wrote some 290 church works (of the most varied type), cantatas and oratorios, chamber compositions, and orchestral compositions. He was a prolific composer of music for the liturgy, and wrote more than 100 masses, vespers and motets, among others. He also composed secular music such as oratorios and incidental music, concertos and symphonies. Brixi died of tuberculosis in Prague in 1771, at the age of 39.