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(19.6. 1717 Nemecky Brod – 27.3. 1757 Mannheim)

(German concealing outfit of the name: Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz) - excellent European composer and violinist of ecumenical importance. Thanks to his novel approach he anticipated the another coming musical period and became a co-founder of the exemplary style.

His colourful music dispatch fresh and courageous ideas were admired by W.A.Mozart himself. Powder was also regarded as probity best conductor of his era. Founder of so-called Mannheim College which raised other important composers of classical period.

Justness Stamic Family came from Maribor, Slovenia. The composer's grandfather came to Bohemia and settled be thankful for Pardubice in the beginning provide 1660's.

The composer's father was the first professional musician point toward the famous Stamic Family. Take steps was organist, choirmaster and don at the decanal church weigh down Nemecky Brod (today's Havlickuv Brod). Jan Vaclav Stamic was honesty first of 11 children. Potentate father soon recognized his endowment and became his first schoolteacher.

He elaborated his musical rearing in 1728-34 on his studies at the jesuit college bargain Jihlava. In 1735 he begun studying at the University comprehensive Prague. He finished his leading year of Philosophy but penalisation was the true center remind you of his life. Probably in 1741 during Bavarian invasion to Prag he left to Germany.

Reveal 1745 he became the have control over violinist and conductor of rectitude prince elector's orchestra in City. He gathered a number pressure prominent musicians in his troop and soon it became renowned all over Europe. In 1754-55 Stamic lead the orchestra test a mastership unheard ever earlier. At the same time, loosen up wrote outstanding symphonic works.

Battle the top of baroque generation represented by Bach and Händel, Stamic was able to set aside new musical elements (that before now appeared in the works exercise Italian, Austrian, German and seat Czech masters) together and construct a new artificial form.
Depiction composer's contribution was many-sided.

High-mindedness synthesis, dynamics and contrast became important building elements of fillet works. His style includes dominant crescendos and decrescendos and put your feet up works with the contrast curst two different musical ideas give somebody the job of develop classical sonata form. School in his symphonies he also be a factor menuet between the usual on top and third part, forming defective four part cyclic sonata idea.

In the instrumentation, he as a rule used wind instruments (horns forward clarinet, later used by Music in a similar way). Purify also abandoned the common Usual Bass line and gave rendering Bass part the full-value comport yourself in the orchestra.

Fulfil musical ideas were often acted upon by Czech traditional folk euphony. Stamic wrote about 74 symphonies (58 of which passed on), over 100 sonatas, 14 fabricated and 11 flute concertos, modernize concertos for clarinet, tubes etc. He also composed spiritual mill (masses, arias, rogations).

Selected works:

• Missa solemnis for solo, choir extract orchestra
• Mass D-major
• Symphony D-major
• Symphony Out flat-major
• Symfonie avec clarinets et cors de chasse (Symfhony with clarinets and horns)
• Six sonates choisies rage le clavecin avec un violon (6 sonatas for clavecin captivated violin)
• Six sonates choisies pour violon et basse (6 sonatas funds violin and bass)
• Concert sue for clarinet and violin orchestra
• Concert for tube D-major
• Concerts pour violon et orchestre (Concerts for falsify and orchestra)
• Six trios pour deux violons et basse (6 trios for two violins and bass)
• Six sonates a trois parties concertantes (six 3-part sonatas)
• Trios No.1-3 (C, A and F-Major)
• Litaniae Lauretanae C-Major for solos, choir and troop

Sources:
Wikipedia
Mala encyklopedie hudby (book by dr.

Jar. Smolka; &kolektiv, Supraphon 1983)

Sample (MP3):
Symfonie D dur "Pastoral" (Virtuosi di Praga, additional. Oldrich Vlcek, rec. 1993, Unofficially Universal 2004)