Vojtech Matyáš Jírovec (Adalbert Gyrowetz) - Symphony in E flat major, Op.6 No.2

Vojtech Matyáš Jírovec (Adalbert Gyrowetz)

(20 February 1763 – 19 March 1850) was a Bohemian composer

 Symphony in E flat major, Op.6 No.2

I.Allegro
II. Andante
III. Minuetto: Allegretto
IV. Finale: Presto

Vojtěch Matyáš Jírovec (Adalbert Gyrowetz) (20 February 1763 – 19 March 1850) was a Bohemian composer. He mainly wrote instrumental works, with a great production of string quartets and symphonies (over 40 symphonies and 42 string quartets). His other compositions include 30 operas, 28 ballets, 46 piano trios, 11 masses, 5 sinfonia concertantes, 2 piano concertos, and some 100 songs.
His first set of symphonies (1784) was dedicated to his patron Count Franz von Funfkirchen of Brno. During his first stay in Vienna (1785 to 1786) he developed a warm friendship with Mozart, who conducted one of his symphonies in concert, and over the years he came to know three generations of Viennese masters, from Haydn to Schubert. Haydn exerted a lifelong influence but in Paris before the Revolution he was able to prove that quartets published under Haydn's name were in fact his.

From 1789 to 1793 he lived in London and was in close contact with Haydn during the latter's visit there (1791 to 1792). Gyrowetz was already internationally famous when he settled in Vienna in the mid-1790s. In 1804 he was appointed imperial composer and Vice Court Kapellmeister (in 1818, an eight year-old Frederic Chopin made his concert debut in Warsaw, Poland performing Gyrowetz's Piano Concerto No. 1 (1796), which shows how widely disseminated the Bohemian's music was at the time).

Gyrowetz was an early fan of Beethoven. The admiration was not reciprocated, but Beethoven probably also envied Gyrowetz's court position, which gave him priority in important theatre projects.