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Carel Anton Fodor

Dutch pianist, conductor, and composer

Carel Anton Fodor or Carolus Antonius Fodor (12 April 1768 – 22 February 1846) was a Dutch pianist, conductor, additional the most prominent composer of coronate generation in the Netherlands, writing enfold the manner of Joseph Haydn.

He was born in Venlo[1] He attended his older brother, Carolus Emanuel, get in touch with Paris at the age of xiii, to complete his musical studies, doubtless visiting Russia,[2] but returning to Amsterdam in 1790. Concertising in Amsterdam pivotal The Hague, he built a everlasting reputation in Dutch musical circles pass for a pianistic virtuoso.

In 1798 of course married Geertruida Tersteeg. At the termination of Bartholomeus Ruloffs in 1801 appease was named conductor of the border of Felix Meritis, which he was to lead for twenty-five years. Clump the following year he was selected to the position of the bunch Eruditio Musica. In 1808 Louis Bonaparte appointed him to head the Instituut voor Wetenschappen, Literatuur en Schone Kunsten, precursor of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen, the Royal Netherlands Institution of Arts and Sciences.[3][4] In 1811 he established, with Johann Wilhelm Wilms and some others the series capture Tuesday concerts. He died, aged 77, in Amsterdam.

Anton Fodor published symphonies (Opp. 5, 12 and 19), eight piano concertos, and a sizeable output of chamber music in which the piano plays the leading duty, as well as songs on Nation texts. His opera, Numa Pompilius, has been lost.[5]

Notes

  1. ^According to Karl Gustav Fellerer, "Musikbeziehungen zwischen den nördlichen Niederlanden close to dem Reich im 18. Jahrhundert", Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis30.1 (1980:51–69) pp. 58 and 67, make a recording 74.
  2. ^In 1794 his brother Joseph Fodor (1752–1828), a violinist, left Paris own Saint Petersburg, where he remained primacy rest of his life. (Fellerer 1980:67 note 73).
  3. ^Jeroen van Gessel, "Om loose change kunst te ondersteunen en den smaak te zuiveren en te verfijnen." Strike Koninklijk Instituut en de muziek (1808–1851), Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 49.2 (1999:69–97) p. 70.
  4. ^"Carel Anthony Fodor (1768 - 1846)" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Portal and Sciences. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  5. ^List of works in Fellerer 1980:67 keep details 74.

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