Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg - Cello Concerto in A-major

 

Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg

 

 

(10 January 1760 – 27 January 1802)

  German composer and conductor.

German cellist, composer and conductor. After the early death of his mother, he received general education at the Carlsschule in Stuttgart, the military academy founded by the duke, where he became friendly with Friedrich von Schiller and the sculptor Johann Heinrich Dannecker. He studied cello with Eberhard Malterre and cello and composition with Agostino Poli in Stuttgart, and in 1781 became solo cellist in the Court Orchestra there. In 1783, he married Luise Andreae with whom he had seven children. He served as music master at the Carlsschule (1785-94), and in 1791 was made director of German music at the Stuttgart Court Theater. In 1793 he succeeded Poli as court Konzertmeister, where he championed the works of W.A. Mozart. As a composer, he produced 12 operas at Stuttgart, of which the best was 'Die Geisierinsel', after Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' (1798). His other stage works included 'Zalaor' (1787), 'Tamira' (1788), 'Das Pfauenfest' (1801), and 'Ebondocani' (1803). His music also includes a monodrama, five sets of incidental music, two Masses, 14 sacred and 16 occasional cantatas, an ode, two symphonies, 12 concertos (10 for cello and two for flute, in addition to a concertante for two flutes), two cello sonatas, a trio for three cellos, and four duos. However, his name became widely known through the numerous ballads and lieder (c.300 works) published from 1791 onwards. His son Gustav Adolf Zumsteeg (1794-1859), after taking over his mother’s music shop (1821), helped to found the Stuttgart male choir Liederkranz (1824) and later established a music publishing house for choral works (1825), which remained active until it was purchased by Kazimierz Sikorski in 1940. His daughter Emilie Zumsteeg (1796-1857) was a singer, pianist and composer.

 

 

 Cello Concerto in A-major  

Mov.I: Allegro 00:00
Mov.II: Andante molto 09:02
Mov.III: Allegro - Allegretto 15:22

Cello: Tomasz Strahl
Orchestra: The Rzeszów Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Grzegorz Oliwa

 

Mov.I: Allegro 00:00 Mov.II: Andante molto 09:02 Mov.III: Allegro - Allegretto 15:22

Cello: Tomasz Strahl

Orchestra: The Rzeszów Chamber Orchestra

Conductor: Grzegorz Oliwa