Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz - Harp Concerto in F major, Op. 9

Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz

 

 

(8 May 1742 – 19 February 1790)

Czech composer and harpist.

 

Harp Concerto in F major, Op. 9

    

00:00 I. Allegro moderato
11:06 II. Romanza
17:03 III. Vivace

Harp : Roberta Alessandrini
Orchestra di Mantova / Vittorio Parisi

 

Krumpholz was born in Budenice, near Zlonice. He learned music from his father while growing up in Paris; in 1773 he played a successful harp concerto in the Burgtheater in Vienna. After serving three years in Count Esterházy's court orchestra (1773–1776) during which he is said to have taken counterpoint lessons with Joseph Haydn, he embarked on a successful concert tour of Europe. In Paris and Metz he worked along with manufacturers Jean Henri Naderman, his son François Joseph Naderman, and S. Erard towards improving the construction of the harp. He composed concertos and sonatas for harp and chamber music.

 

He drowned himself in the Seine after his wife and former pupil, Anne-Marie Krumpholtz (1755–1824), also a virtuoso harpist, eloped(눈이 맞아 함께 달아나다) to London, although the story that this was with pianist Jan Ladislav Dussek is apocryphal(미심쩍은).

 

He was the brother of Wenzel Krumpholz, violinist and mandolin player.

 

Krumpholz composed 52 sonatas, 6 concertos and many preludes and variations for the harp.^[1] He wrote also harp duets, quartets and 4 sonatas for harp, 2 violins, 2 French horns and cello.

Selected works ^[1]

• Sonate für Flöte oder Violine und Harfe oder Klavier (published by H. J. Zingel in 1933)
• Sonata B dur pro harfu (Sonata in B-flat major for Harp) (published in 1935 by M. Zunová)
• Concertus in SI b mai ab arpa cum choro musico

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Anne-Marie Krumpholtz (née Steckler; 1766–1813) was a French harpist and composer.

 

Anne-Marie Steckler was the daughter of Christian Steckler, an instrument maker frequented by harpist and composer Johann Baptist Krumpholtz in Metz, France. She studied harp with Krumpholtz and made her debut in 1779, playing in concert with him at the Concerts Spirituel in Paris.^[1] Steckler married Krumpholtz on the death of his first wife and they had three children, but she left France with pianist Jan Ladislav Dussek to live in London about 1788. However, Dussek left her for Sophia Corri in 1792.

 

Anne-Marie Krumpholtz was a leading soloist and founded a tradition of professional stage performance on harp for women.^[1] Joseph Haydn wrote an aria accompaniment for her in his opera L’anima del filosofo: Orpheus & Eurydice.^[3] Her daughter Fanny Krumpholtz Pittar was also a harpist and composer.