Friedrich Witt - Symphony in C-major "Jena"

 

Friedrich Witt

 (November 8, 1770 -- January 3, 1836) was a German composer and cellist

 

Symphony in C-major "Jena"

 

Orchestra: Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä
Conductor: Patrick Gallois

 

Work: Symphony in C-major "Jena" scored for flute, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns in C,

2 trumpets in C, timpani and strings.("Jena"-독일의 도시; 예나 대학에는 18세기 말에서

19세기 초에 걸쳐 Fichte, Hegel, Schelling, Schiller 등의 스탭이 있었음.)

Mov.I: Adagio - Allegro vivace 00:00
Mov.II: Adagio cantabile 08:17
Mov.III: Menuetto 16:05
Mov.IV: Finale: Allegro 19:37

 

The so-called "Jena Symphony" is a symphony that was at one time attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven. The symphony was discovered by Fritz Stein in 1909 in the archives of a concert society in

Jena, from which it derived its name. Stein believed it to be the work of Beethoven and it was so published by Breitkopf und Härtel in 1911. It is now known that the piece was the work of Friedrich Witt.

Stein thought it was quite likely an early work by Beethoven and pointed out some stylistic similarities in the preface to the score. From each of the four movements he singled out a few passages he considered specially Beethoven-like. Stein's belief in Beethoven's authorship was strengthened by the fact that Beethoven's letters show that prior to writing his own Symphony No. 1 he tried to write a C major symphony with Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 97 as a model, and it is easy to find parallels between the Jena Symphony and Haydn's No. 97.

(The Symphony No. 97 in C major, Hoboken I/97, is the fifth of the so-called twelve London Symphonies (numbers 93-104) written by Joseph Haydn. It was completed in 1792 as part of the set of symphonies composed on his first trip to London. It was first performed at the Hanover Square Rooms in London on 3 or 4 May 1792. First published in England, it made its way to the continent a few years later and was used by Ludwig van Beethoven as a model for a symphony in C major he never completed, and by Friedrich Witt for the Jena Symphony)

 

When H. C. Robbins Landon found another copy of the work at the archives of Göttweig Abbey with Witt's name on it, he convinced most other scholars that the work was in fact by Witt. Ralph Leavis, for example, condemned the work as "a piece of plagiarism(표절행위), put together almost with scissors and paste from reminiscences (회상, 추억)of Haydn."