#albrechtsberger

[kpellinore]

So yesterday, @solointhesand pointed out that there exists a concerto for the mandora (the type of lute I was on about yesterday) and Jew’s harp (also called the jaw harp and also a crembalum (never heard this)). I had to check this out...and here it is. If you told me it was April’s Fool’s Day, I would believe you...but everybody seems to be serious. I’m not sure how they found an audience polite enough not to break out laughing when the jaw harp comes in...because I sure didn’t manage it. 

[bruhbrushbruh]

[entrainmentweaponresearcher]

[de-es-ce-ha]

Vienna, 1765

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, esteemed Viennese composer, masterful contrapuntist: boing boing boing boing boing booooooooooing boing boing boiiiiiingggg 

Beethoven: please stop

Albrechtsberger: ...

Beethoven: hoe don’t do it

Albrechtsberger: ...

Albrechtsberger: BOINNNGGG

Beethoven: THAT’S IT I’M LEAVING YOU FOR JOSEPH-

[lesser-known-composers]

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Albrechtsberger

[lesser-known-composers]

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Quartet C-major op. 20 No 5  

[homilius]

My dear Beethoven! For your birthday tomorrow, I wish you all the best. God give you health and happiness and grant you much luck. If you, my dear Beethoven, should have a free hour, your old teacher invites you to spend it with him. It would give me great pleasure if you would bring the Trio* with you, we could rehearse it straight away, and since I now have more time I will start directly making the scores. Yesterday Haydn came to me, he is carrying round in his head the idea of a big oratorio which he intends to call 'The Creation' and hopes to finish it soon. He improvised much of it for me and I think it will be very good. Don't forget to look in tomorrow and meanwhile hearty greetings.

Albrechtsberger to Beethoven (15 December 1796, Vienna) *Op. 1 No. 3?

[whatstripes]

Albrechtsberger- Harp concerto, II mvmt,