František Kryštof Neubauer (c.1760-1795) - Sinfonie 'La Bataille' à grand Orchestre (1794)
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Composer: František Kryštof Neubauer (c.1760-1795)
Work: Sinfonie 'La Bataille' à grand Orchestre (1794) [Historical recording]
Performers: Angelicum Orchestra of Milan; Newel Jenkins (1915-1996, conductor)
Painting: Benjamin West (1738-1820) - The Battle of La Hogue (c.1778)
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František Kryštof (Franz Christoph) Neubauer [Neubaur]
(Hořín, c.1760 - Bückeburg, 11 October 1795)
German-Bohemian composer. Born in a small town in central Bohemia, he received his earliest musical education from local teachers before moving to Prague to continue his studies. After a brief sojourn in Vienna he embarked upon a career as an itinerant composer, first making a tour of numerous monasteries; in 1781 he composed his Stabat mater for the Benedictine monastery in Andrechs, and in 1783 he was in Ottobeuren teaching in the monastic school. In 1786 he obtained commissions for Zürich and Winterthur in Switzerland, and by 1789 his symphony “The Siege of Coburg” was performed with success in Heilbronn. The following year he obtained the post of Kapellmeister in Weilburg but fled first to Minden in Westfalia and subsequently to Bückeburg to avoid the approach of French forces. He was able to obtain a position in the former as Kapellmeister to the Prince von Fürstenberg and subsequently Countess Juliane von Schumburg-Lippe. There he became a rival to Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, becoming his successor in 1795, only to die nine months later of alcoholism. Neubauer was considered an original and daring composer by people such as Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler, although later criticism noted that his music contained “moments” of dramatic genius followed by long sections of the commonplace. His music, now rarely heard and little studied, includes an opera (based upon a New World subject), incidental music, an oratorio, 40 Masses, eight Requiems, four vespers, eight Te Deums, a host of smaller sacred works, three large-scale cantatas, 30 Lieder, 18 symphonies, five concertos, 22 quartets (with interesting instrumental combinations), 17 trios, 40 duos, two serenades, eight partitas, and several smaller keyboard works (as well as several sonatas for violin).