PROGRAM INFORMATION The Toggenburg Music Collection in Bolzano (Bolzano was formerly belonging to Tyrol-Austria), gathered by the rich merchant and patron Anton Melchior von Menz (1757- 1801) was extended by his only child Annette von Menz with pieces which she herself performed as part of the musical soirées that she held in her drawing room. A significant number of the manuscript music scores belonging to Annette are vocal works with guitar or piano accompaniment. A coterie of musicians gathered around Annette, taking on her musical education, dedicating their own compositions to her and participating in the musical soirées that she arranged. Among them there were the 4 composers presented in this Cd and who were all from Tirol or German speaking central european area.
Leonhard de Call (Eppan, 1767 - Vienna, 1815) We know very little about the first thirty years of the life of. Documentation becomes available again when he was about thirty years old and moved to Vienna. De Call was a highly active composer: especially of instrumental chamber music, with a predilection for violin, flute and guitar; but also for vocal music (Lieder with and without accompaniment). De Call writes in a charming style, accessible in technique to the more gifted music amateurs in Vienna; and he won great publishing success in this world of musicians of the nineteenth century.
Joseph-Ewald Reiner (Warthau, 1784 - ?) He composed vocal works and pieces for the guitar, an instrument that he played with great skill, which were printed in Leipzig. Johann - Nepomuk Huber (Reichenau Island, 1803 - ?), theologian, preacher was an author of works of music theory and teaching. He had several guitar compositions published by J. Traeg of Vienna. Johann Baptist Gänsbacher (Sterzing, 1778 - Vienna, 1844) was educated in singing by his father, a conductor and chorus director, who also gave him lessons on the organ and other instruments. Puer cantor in Innsbruck and in Halle, in 1789 he moved to Bolzano where he studied the organ with the cleric Georg Rainer, the violin with Franz Neubauer, maestro di cappella in the parish church, and cello with Johann Anton Fendt.
STRONG POINT: World premiere recording with ancient instruments
BIO: Giuseppe Carrer Carrer obtained his guitar diploma at the ”G. Verdi” Conservatory in Milan with Ruggero Chiesa. He obtained the Solisten Diplom at the Basle Musik Akademie with Oscar Ghiglia. He has attended masterclasses with the world’s leading guitarists: Julian Bream, Oscar Ghiglia, Stefano Grondona, José Tomas, Paul Galbraith, Eliot Frisk. He has been a prizewinner at prestigious international competitions. His concert activity sees him perform in Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Belgium, Thailand, Singapore, playing as a soloist, in chamber ensembles and in concertos for guitar and orchestra. For many years he has been researching the performance technique and repertoire of the great guitarist-composers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He teaches the guitar at the ”Vivaldi” Music Institute in Bolzano and gives courses in 19th-century guitar at the Arrigo Pedrollo Conservatory in Vicenza.
Luigi Lupo Since he obtained his diploma in flute at the ”G.B. Martini” Conservatory in Bologna in 1991, Luigi Lupo has dedicated himself mainly to studying and researching historical flutes. In 1995 he graduated in Arts, Music and the Performing Arts in the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy of the University of Bologna. In 1996 he concluded his diploma studies in Recorder and Baroque Flute at the ”F.E. Dall’Abaco” Conservatory in Verona, and at the same time attended J.B. Christensen’s Chamber Music Course at the Schola Cantorum in Basle. He now collaborates with various early-music ensembles, ranging from the medieval to the romantic repertoire. His concert activity is accompanied by musicology. He has made several recordings on various labels.He teaches at the ”A. Vivaldi” Music Institute in Bolzano.
Track List: Johann Baptist Gänsbacher Serenade pour Violon ou Flûte et Guitarre Op. 12 1 - Marcia 2:43 2 - Menuetto: Allegretto. Trio. Menuetto Da Capo 3:33 3 - Adagio con espressione 3:46 4 - Rondo: Allegro 3:40
Joseph Ewald Reiner 5 - VIII Grandes Variations pour la Guitarre Oev. 6 15:05
Johann Nepomuk Huber Marche de l’Opera: La Vestale de Spontini arrangée pour la Guitarre 6 - Allegro vivace 3:17
Leonhard von Call Serenade pour Violon ou Flûte et Guitarre Op. 54 7 - Adagio 1:11 8 - Allegro con brio 6:30 9 - Menuetto: Cantabile. Trio. Menuetto Da Capo 4:07 10 - Adagio 6:19 11 - Rondo: Allegro 5:09 Sonata II dalle | aus der Trois Sonates / pour / une Guitarre seule Op. 22 12 - Adagio 3:25 13 - Menuetto: Con moto. Trio. Menuetto Da Capo 2:12 14 - Andantino 1:58
The music salon of Annette von Menz
