Paul Wranitzky, Pavel Wranickż in Czech, is almost unknown today, but any music listener around 1800 would have known his name and probably his music. He was a Masonic lodge brother of Mozart and conducted the first performance of the Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21, of Beethoven. The Czech Chamber Philharmonic, Pardubice, and its director Marek ?tilec have performed a great service by unearthing his music in a series of recordings on the Naxos label, of which this is the fourth installment. The first three volumes were ...
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Paul Wranitzky, Pavel Wranickż in Czech, is almost unknown today, but any music listener around 1800 would have known his name and probably his music. He was a Masonic lodge brother of Mozart and conducted the first performance of the Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21, of Beethoven. The Czech Chamber Philharmonic, Pardubice, and its director Marek ?tilec have performed a great service by unearthing his music in a series of recordings on the Naxos label, of which this is the fourth installment. The first three volumes were devoted to Wranitzky's symphonies, but this is something different: Das Waldmädchen ("The Forest Girl") of 1796 is a ballet pantomime. Like Beethoven's Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, whose success it greatly exceeded in its own time, Wranitzky's ballet consists of a series of short numbers tied to individual scenes. Some of the heftier ones hint at symphonic forms, but most depict a single junction in the action. Not all are entirely compelling; those interested in trying out Wranitzky...
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