Georges Onslow 작품 모음(1)- Symphony No. 1 외

Georges onslow (1784-1853/ 69세)

영국출신 프랑스 작곡가. 부는 영국, 모는 프랑스 출신. 당대에는 천부적인 재능을 가진 음악가로 인정받았지만 오늘에 와서는 거의 잊혀진 음악가이다.현악4중주 36곡, 현악5중주 34곡, 피아노 트리오 10곡, 교향곡 4곡외 많은 곡을 썼다.[List of compositions by George onslow]

 

 

 * Symphony No. 1 (1831/47세) - 교향곡 총 4곡 중 한곡

I. Introduzione - Largo - Allegro Spiritioso - 00:00
II. Adagio Espressivo - 12:36
III. Minuetto - Vivace - 20:45
IV. Finale - Vivace - 26:32

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* String Quintet Op 17

 

Chamber Music Concert Musique de chambre
Cambridge City Hall
7:30 pm 19h30
Tuesday July 8 2014 mardi le 8 juillet 2014

Violin violon : Adrian Irvine, Sarah Harrigan
Viola alto : Carolyn Farnand
Cello violoncelle : Katie Newman
Double Bass contrebasse : Talia Hatcher

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* String Quintet No. 30 in e minor, Op. 74

 

 

Members of Les Alchimistes Berlin - Ben Hildner, Artistic Director

Olga Polonsky, violin
Clemens Linder, violin
Eve Wickert, viola
Mikayel Hakhnazaryan
Ben Hildner, cello

 

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* Quintette Op.51 No.21 in G minor  

Pierre Franck, violon
Violaine de Gournay, violon
Sophie Cerf, alto
Marie Leclercq, violoncelle
Sophie Magnien, violoncelle

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George onslow was born in Clermont-Ferrand, the son of an English father, Edward onslow, and a French mother; his paternal grandfather was George onslow, 1st Earl of onslow. As a young man he lived in London, where he studied piano with Johann Baptist Cramer and also studied composition with Dussek. His principal composition teacher was Anton Reicha with whom he studied in Paris between 1807--1808; later he spent two years studying in Vienna and was again a student of Reicha in the 1820s, when he wished to broaden his technique to write opera. He died in Clermont-Ferrand.

His 36 string quartets and 34 string quintets were, during his own lifetime and up to the end of the 19th century, held in the highest regard, particularly in Germany, Austria and England, where he was regularly placed in the front rank of composers. His work was admired by both Beethoven and Schubert, the latter modelling his own 2-cello quintet (D.956) on those of onslow and not, as is so often claimed, on those of Boccherini. Robert Schumann, perhaps the foremost music critic during the first part of the 19th century, regarded onslow's chamber music on a par with that of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. Mendelssohn was also of this opinion. Publishers such as Breitkopf & Härtel and Kistner were among many who competed to bring out his works. Such was onslow's reputation that he was elected to succeed Luigi Cherubini as Director of the prestigious Académie des beaux-arts, based on the excellence of his chamber music and this, in an "Opera Mad France", which had little regard for chamber music. However, after the First World War, his music, along with that of so many other fine composers, fell into oblivion and up until 1984, the bicentennial of his birth, he remained virtually unknown. onslow's writing was unique in that he was successfully able to merge the drama of the opera into the chamber music idiom perfected by the Vienna masters.

Besides his string quartets and quintets which were and remain his best known and regarded works, he wrote 10 piano trios, three piano quintets, a quintet for piano and winds, 2 sextets for winds and piano, a septet for winds and piano, a nonet for strings & winds, 6 sonatas for violin and piano, and one for cello and piano.
Beyond his chamber music, he composed four symphonies, four operas (including at least one, Le Colporteur, themes from which formed the subject of fantasies by other composers, like Friedrich Kuhlau's for flute and piano), several works for piano alone as well as five vocal works. His second symphony (D minor, opus 42) shows some commonality of style with Beethoven, particularly in the dramatic first movement, and with Schubert.< 출처- 유튜브>

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이 작곡가는 Ferdinand Ries, Louis Spohr와 동시대에 활동했던 프랑스의 피아니스트였고, 그의 작품 대부분은 현악5중주와 현악4중주 위주로 작품 세계가 알려져 있습니다.

 

동 시대 작곡가인 '리스'는 작품 대부분을  피아노와 연관된 작품을 썼지만, 온슬로는 현악4중주(대략 70여곡)와 현악5중주(대략 50여곡) 위주의 작품을 썼습니다. 물론 4개의 교향곡과 4개의 오페라, 3개의 바이올린 소나타, 1개의 첼로 소나타가 있긴 하지만, 그래도 저는 이 작곡가의 비중은 바로 현악4중주와 현악5중주에 맞춰져야 한다고 생각이 듭니다.

 

 그의 작품은 대체적으로 고전적인 이미지에 낭만적인 기분이 스며들곤 하네요. 베토벤의 예를 든다면 초기 현악4중주와 하이든의 현악4중주의 면면을 많이 닮아 있습니다.

 

그의 교향곡은 총 4곡입니다. 하지만 오케스트레이션은 그리 화려하진 못하더군요. 베토벤을 닮아갈려고 하는 흔적이 많이 엿보이긴 하지만, 온슬로만의 매력은 그리 쉽게 찾질 못하겠더군요. 이런 면은 리스나 슈포어에서도 쉽게 발견되곤 하는데, 베토벤의 벽이 너무나도 큰가 봅니다.

 

 

온슬로 하면 생각나는 것이 바로 현악4중주와 현악5중주일 정도로 그의 작품 면면에서 많은 부분을 느낄 수 있습니다.

특히 온슬로와 슈포어의 현악4중주를 비교해서 들으면 더 큰 재미를 느낍니다.

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