Matthias Franciscus Cannabich (c.1690-1773) - Sonata for flute
33Autor: Matthias Franciscus Cannabich (c.1690-1773)
Obra: Sonata for flute & continuo in E minor
Intèrprets: Nеuе DussеIdorfеr Hofmusik
Pintura: Judith Leyster (1609-1660) - Boy playing the Flute (c.1630)
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Matthias [Martin] Franciscus [Franz, Friedrich] Cannabich
(c.1690 - 12 Oct 1773)
Flautist and composer. The earliest known reference to him occurs in a list of the musicians at the Margrave of Baden's court in Rastatt in 1706. In Düsseldorf on 1 January 1715 he married Anna Margaretha Essers (d 1725), by whom he had four children; he served there as flautist to the Palatine electors Johann Wilhelm and (from 1716) Carl Philipp. He later moved with the court to Heidelberg (1718) and to Mannheim (1720). In 1727 he married his second wife Rosina Arnold (d 8 February 1774), who bore him five children. His name appears, in various forms, in the Mannheim orchestra lists from 1723 to 1773, although by 1756 he had retired; he earned a substantial salary and gave flute lessons to Elector Carl Theodor until 1752. He composed a set of six Sonate a flauto traversiere solo e basso, op.1 (Paris, 1741–2), one of which has been edited by P. Anspacher (Wilhelmshaven, 1976), and three of the pieces in Burk Thumoth's Six Solos for a German Flute, Violin or Harpsichord (London, c1746); his name is given in both publications as ‘Canaby’.