Ernst Eichner (1740-1777) - Sinfonia in D-Dur (1775)

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Composer: Ernst Eichner (1740-1777)
Work: Sinfonia (D-Dur) à 11. Strom. ... Op.X (1775)
Performers: Kurpfälzischеs Kammerorchester; Hans Oskar Kοch (conductor)

Sinfonia in D-Dur (1775)
1. Allegro 0:00
2. Andante 5:30
3. Allegro assai 7:38

Drawing: Johan Frederik Clemens (1749-1831) - Frederik the Great rides home after a revue at Potsdam
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Ernst (Ernest, Ernesto) (Dieterich Adolph) Eichner [Eicher, Eichler, Eigner, Eihner, Euchner, Fichner, Richner]
(Arolsen, bap. 15 February 1740 - Potsdam, early 1777)

German bassoonist, violinist and composer. The son of a musician, Johann Andreas Eichner (1694-1768), he studied under his father before becoming, on 1 September 1762, Kapellmeister at the court of Duke Christian IV in Zweibrücken. After his symphonies were published in Paris, he obtained a position as violinist with the Mannheim orchestra in 1768, winning a prestigious award in Paris in 1772 for his compositions after tours there and in London. In 1773 he accepted a position in Potsdam with the musical ensemble of Crown Prince Friedrich (later Friedrich Wilhelm). He interrupted his service there only once, to visit Arolsen and Leipzig (1775). His early death passed unnoticed by the musical public. Despite so, he was one of the most significant and progressive composers of the mid-century German symphony, though he often chose to retain the three-movement format. Eichner, no doubt consciously, sought a synthesis of the forms and idioms of his time; he fits into none of the important 18th-century ‘schools’, but was a solitary figure who, like so many of his contemporaries, aimed to give structure and substance to the new genre of the ‘concert symphony’. His music is known for its colorful and sensitive orchestration. His output includes 30 symphonies, 18 concertos (mostly for winds), 14 quartets, a quintet, two wind divertimentos, 12 trios for strings, seven sonatas, six duos, and six keyboard sonatas. He married Maria Magdelena Ritter and his daughter, Adelheid Eichner (c.1761-?), was a singer and composer with a precocious talent.