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Hoffmeister Franz Anton

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Devienne, François

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Graf, Friedrich Hartmann

Grétry, André Ernest Modeste

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Hoffmeister, Franz Anton

Hummel, Johann Nepomuk

Jadin, Louis-Emmanuel

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Müller, August Eberhard

Reicha, Josef

Romberg, Bernhard

Rosetti, Francesco Antonio

Schwindel, Friedrich

Stamitz, Anton

Stamitz, Carl Philipp

Concerto for flute and orchestra in D Major

Concerto for flute and orchestra in D Major

By Hoffmeister Franz Anton

F. A. Hoffmeister: Concerto for flute and orchestra No 17 in D Major was written around 1800, the time when Hoffmeister was on a concert tour throughout Europe with his flutist friend Franz Thurner.

Bruno Meier

Prague Chamber Orchestra, Bruno Meier (conductor), 2011, NAXOS

1. Allegro, 2. Romanza: poco Adagio, 3. Rondo: Allegretto

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Hoffmeister Franz Anton

Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812) was a German composer and highly regarded music publisher. Initially he studied law in Vienna but switched to music and quickly became one of the most popular composers in 1780s. By 1785 he established one of the most successful publishing businesses in Vienna and gained reputation as a publisher of W.A.Mozart, J. Haydn and L.V.Beethoven and many others, many of whom become his personal friends.

At the turn of the century he decided to devote more time to composition and touring which eventually led him to Leipzig. There he established another publishing house Bureau de Musique which made the first edition of J.S.Bach's keyboard works in 14 volumes. In the following years he sold both publishing houses and dedicated his time solely to composition. As a composer he wrote more than 25 concertos for flute, over 50 symphonies as well as numerous chamber music works.