#reicha

[iwillbemother]

松平小百合🍵お茶日和

[spacecores]

OC doodling past midnight bc time is fake. Featuring my girls I’ve had forever and my new Witcher boy, Dov. ^u^

[sonateharder]

Klaviertober - 18

18. A piece by an underrated composer

Etude No.1 by Antoine Reicha (1770-1836)

I love this etude for so many reasons. No one can ever guess the composer nor can they believe it was published in 1820!

There’s not very much etude-ish about it - to my ear it jumps ahead to the soundworlds of Satie, Debussy or even Philip Glass. I love how Reicha builds a mood out of such simple material - a repeating rhythmic cell, a snatch of melody, some chromatic harmony - boom!

Here’s Ivan Ilić at the piano:

[Challenge from @une-barque-sur-l-ocean: one a day each day in October!]

Klaviertober Challenge - it’s not too late to join in!

https://une-barque-sur-l-ocean.tumblr.com/post/629990298919043072

[daily-classical]

Josef Rejcha. Concerto for 2 horns & orchestra in E flat major, Op. 5

[spacecores]

Oh hey it’s Her

[antoine-reicha-blog]

[Antoine Reicha's "Traité de Haute Composition Musicale"] deals in large part with fugal procedures in both the narrowest and broadest (genre fugué) senses. Reicha believed that fugue contained possibilities for the highest levels of musical expression, and in this regard he was reinforcing the path followed by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven in their string quartets. Unfortunately, neither Luigi Cherubini, Directeur of the Conservatoire, nor the otherwise brilliant François-Joseph Fétis, agreed with Reicha and made life for him at the Conservatory most unpleasant. Despite this, the new treatise was read by a large number of composers; in 1832 under the title Vollständiges Lehrbuch ["Complete Textbook" in English], Carl Czerny published translations of the Traité de Haute Composition Musicale and Reicha's previous two treatises. Giacomo Meyerbeer, Robert Schumann and Bedrich Smetana are all known to have been acquainted with Reicha's treatises in one form or another.

Charles-David Lehrer https://www.idrs.org/scores/Lehrer2/Reicha/Introduction_Reicha.html

[antoine-reicha-blog]

What contributed chiefly to the high repute I gained in France, were the large number of pupils, the instruction books I published, and especially the twenty-four quintets for wind instruments which I composed there and had performed.

Antoine Reicha’s memoirs, circa 1820′s (unpublished during his lifetime)

[antoine-reicha-blog]

Antonin a dix-sept ans. Il n'est pas seulement remarquable flûtiste : il sait jouer de l'orchestre. Plus avancé en cela que Beethoven lui-même, dont le génie s'éveillera lentement, lourdement, il connaît à fond la technique des instruments à vent et tout le long de sa double carrière de théoricien et de compositeur, il leur fera une large place dans son activité. D'avoir vécu au milieu d'une phalange d'instrumentistes et d'avoir excellé dans un de ces organes sonores que rarement les compositeurs pratiquent, il lui restera une prédilection pour les vents. C'est à eux aussi qu'il devra les meilleurs et les plus durables succès.

“Antonin Reicha” de Maurice Emmanuel (1937)