Johannes Bernardus van Bree - String Quartet No. 3/Allegro for 4 String Quartets (1845)

Johannes Bernardus van Bree

 

(29 January 1801 – 14 February 1857) was a Dutch composer, violinist and conductor.

Van Bree was born and died in Amsterdam. He was a pupil of Jan George Bertelman.[1]

From 1829 to the year of his death he directed the Felix Meritis Society. He was also the director of the Music School of the Society of the Promotion of Music, Amsterdam.

As a conductor he gave the Dutch premieres of Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique (in 1855) and Richard Wagner's Faust Overture (1856).

[반브리는 암스테르담에서 태어나고 그 곳에서 죽었고, Jan George Bertelman의 제자였다.[1]

1829년부터 사망할 때까지 그는 펠릭스 메리티스 소사이어티를 지휘하였고 또한 암스테르담 음악진흥학회 음악학교 소장이었다.[2] 지휘자로서 그는 베를리오즈의 환상교향곡(1855)과 리하르트 바그너의 파우스트 서곡(1856)을 네덜란드에서 초연하였다.[위키백과]

 

String Quart No. 3 in D minor (1848)

1. Allegro moderato - 00:00 2. Scherzo (vivace) - 09:46
3. Air russe (Andante con variazioni) - 13:00
4. Finale (Allegro un poco agitato) - 20:12

Nomos Quartet
dedicated to Joannes Josephus Viotta

 

 

Allegro for 4 String Quartets (1845)

Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden

 

He learnt the violin first with his father, acting as his accompanist in dance lessons after the family's move to Leeuwarden in 1812. There he taught music to the children of a local nobleman (1815--1819). After returning to Amsterdam (1820) he continued his violin studies and played in the orchestras of the Théâtre Français (until 1821) and the Felix Meritis society. In 1828 he founded and conducted a choral society; in 1836 it was absorbed into the Amsterdam section of the Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Toonkunst, which van Bree directed. In 1830 he was appointed conductor of the Felix Meritis orchestra, a post he held until his death. Van Bree formed a string quartet in 1838 that specialized in works by Beethoven and Spohr. From 1841 he achieved his greatest fame as director of the newly founded Caecilia orchestra, with programmes consisting exclusively of Classical and early Romantic symphonies and overtures. The conductor of three Roman Catholic church choirs, he introduced Haydn masses into church services; with the Toonkunst choir he performed oratorios from Handel to Schumann as well as 16th- and 17th-century works. After the success in the 1830s of his operas Saffo and Le bandit, and of Rossini's Guillaume Tell, he was appointed music director of the Hollandsche Schouwburg in 1840--1841. He served as president of Toonkunst (1849--1850) and from 1853 until his death directed the Amsterdam section's newly founded music school.
Van Bree's compositions, which mark him, together with J.W. Wilms, as one of the first important Dutch composers of the 19th century, remained close to the prevailing French style of the cavatine and romance, although rhythmic and dramatic flair are in evidence in Le bandit; a more polyphonic Germanic style is apparent only in some piano pieces and his string quartets, above all the Allegro for four string quartets. In Britain he was known to choral societies through R.R. Terry's arrangements for mixed voices of three masses for men's voices, and a cantata for St Cecilia's Day.