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Schwindel Friedrich
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, Strings and Cembalo in D Major
F. Schwindel: Concerto for Flute, Strings and Cembalo in D Major most likely was written in the late 1770s when Schwindel worked in his newly founded music school in Geneva. It was discovered only in the late 1950s and the first modern performance took place in 1959 during radio broadcast by Raymond Meylan and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra under direction of Jean-Marie Auberson. This a Mozartean style composition is considered rather adventuresome for the period containing a contrasting section in a minor key in the first and the third movements.
Friedrich Schwindel (1737-1786) was a Dutch composer and a violin, piano and flute virtuoso. Most of his career he served at the courts of Count Carl von Colloredo-Mannsfeld in Brussels and the Wilhelm V in the Hague. In 1776 he moved to Geneva to establish a music school. However, in 1780 he accepted a concertmaster position of the Badische Hofkapelle in Karlsruhe which became the last appointment in his career.
He was a rather popular composer in his time who wrote 34 symphonies as well as numerous chamber music works and flute concertos.