CHAN 10379 includes premiere recordings 25 CCHANHAN 1103790379 BBook.inddook.indd 224-254-25 330/7/060/7/06 113:06:013:06:01 Christian Cannabich (1731–1798) Symphony in G major 19:47 in G-Dur • en sol majeur 1 I Allegro 6:12 2 II Andantino 4:23 3 III Minuet and Trio 4:26 4 IV Presto assai 4:45 premiere recording Symphony in A major 11:57 Engraving after portrait, by Egid 1779, Verhelst © akg-images in A-Dur • en la majeur 5 I Allegro 3:17 6 II Andante 3:44 7 III Allegro ma non tanto 4:55 premiere recording Symphony in E fl at major, No. 57 13:55 in Es-Dur • en mi bémol majeur 8 I Allegro 5:02 9 II Andante 4:29 10 III Allegro 4:23 Christian Cannabich 3 CCHANHAN 1103790379 BBook.inddook.indd 22-3-3 330/7/060/7/06 113:05:533:05:53 Christian Cannabich (1731–1798) Symphony in G major 19:47 in G-Dur • en sol majeur 1 I Allegro 6:12 2 II Andantino 4:23 3 III Minuet and Trio 4:26 4 IV Presto assai 4:45 premiere recording Symphony in A major 11:57 Engraving after portrait, by Egid 1779, Verhelst © akg-images in A-Dur • en la majeur 5 I Allegro 3:17 6 II Andante 3:44 7 III Allegro ma non tanto 4:55 premiere recording Symphony in E fl at major, No. 57 13:55 in Es-Dur • en mi bémol majeur 8 I Allegro 5:02 9 II Andante 4:29 10 III Allegro 4:23 Christian Cannabich 3 CCHANHAN 1103790379 BBook.inddook.indd 22-3-3 330/7/060/7/06 113:05:533:05:53 Cannabich: Symphonies Christian Cannabich and Mannheim composers such as Niccolò Jommelli, whose In the middle of the eighteenth century, operas were performed at Mannheim and the musical establishment at Mannheim whom the Elector much admired. premiere recording was one of the most famous in Europe. The The reputation of the orchestra continued Symphony in C major, No. 22 10:01 town had been the capital of the Palatinate after Stamitz’s death under the tutelage in C-Dur • en ut majeur since the ruler Carl Philipp moved his court of his pupil, Christian Cannabich. When 11 I Allegro moderato 3:32 from Heidelberg in 1720. It was his nephew Burney visited Mannheim in 1772 his 12 II Andante con brio 2:34 Carl Theodor, succeeding him as Elector judgment was that ‘there are more solo 13 III Un poco presto 3:52 Palatine on New Year’s Eve, 1742, who built players, and good composers in this, than up the orchestra, having the good fortune to perhaps in any other orchestra in Europe; it Symphony in D major 11:09 inherit also the composer Johann Stamitz. is an army of generals, equally fi t to plan a in D-Dur • en ré majeur Stamitz led the orchestra from 1745 until his battle, as to fi ght it’. The only imperfection 14 I Allegro con spirito 3:26 death twelve years later and trained it to an was that the woodwind played out of tune, 15 II Andante grazioso 4:22 exceptionally high standard: the historian as they did everywhere else; a surprising 16 III Presto assai 3:19 Charles Burney wrote that ‘the band… was comment on a band that included Friedrich regarded as the most complete and best Ramm, the virtuoso for whom Mozart later TT 66:49 disciplined in Europe’. wrote his oboe quartet. Stamitz and his fellow composers at Burney referred to Cannabich, along with London Mozart Players the court, including the Kapellmeister Holzbauer and the violinist Carl Toeschi, as Matthias Bamert Ignaz Holzbauer and the cellist Anton ‘three masters [who] are authors of several Filtz, cultivated what much later became excellent symphonies, some of which have known as the ‘Mannheim style’: effects been printed in England’. Cannabich was such as crescendos over a pedal point (the born in 1731 in Mannheim, where his father ‘Mannheim steamroller’) and vigorous was a fl autist in the court orchestra. The rising phrases (the ‘Mannheim rocket’) that boy’s musical talent was recognised early on were derived from the overtures of Italian by the Elector, who sent him to study with 4 5 CCHANHAN 1103790379 BBook.inddook.indd 44-5-5 330/7/060/7/06 113:05:553:05:55 Cannabich: Symphonies Christian Cannabich and Mannheim composers such as Niccolò Jommelli, whose In the middle of the eighteenth century, operas were performed at Mannheim and the musical establishment at Mannheim whom the Elector much admired. premiere recording was one of the most famous in Europe. The The reputation of the orchestra continued Symphony in C major, No. 22 10:01 town had been the capital of the Palatinate after Stamitz’s death under the tutelage in C-Dur • en ut majeur since the ruler Carl Philipp moved his court of his pupil, Christian Cannabich. When 11 I Allegro moderato 3:32 from Heidelberg in 1720. It was his nephew Burney visited Mannheim in 1772 his 12 II Andante con brio 2:34 Carl Theodor, succeeding him as Elector judgment was that ‘there are more solo 13 III Un poco presto 3:52 Palatine on New Year’s Eve, 1742, who built players, and good composers in this, than up the orchestra, having the good fortune to perhaps in any other orchestra in Europe; it Symphony in D major 11:09 inherit also the composer Johann Stamitz. is an army of generals, equally fi t to plan a in D-Dur • en ré majeur Stamitz led the orchestra from 1745 until his battle, as to fi ght it’. The only imperfection 14 I Allegro con spirito 3:26 death twelve years later and trained it to an was that the woodwind played out of tune, 15 II Andante grazioso 4:22 exceptionally high standard: the historian as they did everywhere else; a surprising 16 III Presto assai 3:19 Charles Burney wrote that ‘the band… was comment on a band that included Friedrich regarded as the most complete and best Ramm, the virtuoso for whom Mozart later TT 66:49 disciplined in Europe’. wrote his oboe quartet. Stamitz and his fellow composers at Burney referred to Cannabich, along with London Mozart Players the court, including the Kapellmeister Holzbauer and the violinist Carl Toeschi, as Matthias Bamert Ignaz Holzbauer and the cellist Anton ‘three masters [who] are authors of several Filtz, cultivated what much later became excellent symphonies, some of which have known as the ‘Mannheim style’: effects been printed in England’. Cannabich was such as crescendos over a pedal point (the born in 1731 in Mannheim, where his father ‘Mannheim steamroller’) and vigorous was a fl autist in the court orchestra. The rising phrases (the ‘Mannheim rocket’) that boy’s musical talent was recognised early on were derived from the overtures of Italian by the Elector, who sent him to study with 4 5 CCHANHAN 1103790379 BBook.inddook.indd 44-5-5 330/7/060/7/06 113:05:553:05:55 Jommelli in Rome, where he remained from warning that the place was expensive and of an overture by Cannabich, ‘if you had fi nale. The central Andante, for strings 1750 to 1753. the ruler an ungenerous employer. (Burney, heard it, you would have been as much only, makes much play of a little motif By the time he was promoted to director on the other hand, mentions the ‘handsome’ pleased and excited as I was; and if you had exchanged between the fi rst and second of instrumental music at Mannheim pension arrangements.) not previously known it, you would never violins. in 1774, Cannabich, like many of his Wolfgang was unsuccessful and in March have believed that it was by Cannabich’3. He The Symphony in E fl at major, No. 57, colleagues, had made several visits to 1778 he and his mother moved on to Paris. worked closely with Cannabich, who was includes clarinets and bassoons as well as the Paris, where he had built up a reputation He had got on very well with Cannabich to conduct Idomeneo, and a few weeks later usual horns. The bassoons have independent as performer and composer. When Carl and his wife, but found them insuffi ciently he begged his father to write to him, adding parts but are not given any solos, whereas Theodor became the Elector of Bavaria grateful for the time he had devoted to ‘What does it matter… if he does not reply? great prominence is given to the clarinets. in 1778, most of his musicians, including giving piano lessons to their daughter Rosa. He does not mean to be what he appears to These relatively recent additions to the Cannabich, moved with the court to Leopold was not surprised that Cannabich be. He is the same with everyone – you must woodwind family were to be found in Munich. There the orchestra continued had failed to secure an appointment for just get to know him.’4 London, Paris and Mannheim – but not in to attract admiration. The composer and his son and described him as ‘a wretched The Symphony in G major, composed in Mozart’s home town of Salzburg, Wolfgang poet C.F.D. Schubart wrote that, under scribbler of symphonies’1. However, 1760, is scored for fl utes, horns and strings. writing wistfully to Leopold, ‘Ah, if only we Cannabich, ‘its forte is a thunderclap, Wolfgang thought that he had greatly The fi rst movement is in an embryonic had clarinets too! You cannot imagine the its crescendo a cataract, its diminuendo improved as a composer and, in the letter to sonata form, with an exposition that glorious effect of a symphony with fl utes, a crystal stream bubbling away into the Leopold that broke the news of his mother’s moves to the dominant, and an abridged oboes and clarinets.’5 distance, its piano a breath of spring’.