CD 78

Tyrolean Orchestral Music

„The  Joys  of  Riflemen  /  a characteristic painting in sound / for complete orchestra and obbligato rifl e, drum and fi fes / making use of two original Tyrolean melodies….“ is how Johann  Baptist  Gänsbacher described the orchestral piece he wrote in 1824. In a sense it represents a musical goodbye present to Innsbruck because he accepted the position of director of the cathedral music at  St  Stephen’s  in  Vienna that same year. This original bravura piece is surely a very early  example  of  the  genre of symphonic poem. Besides Ignaz Anton Ladurner (1766- 1839;  see  CDs  71-74)  and Silvio  Lazzari  (1857-1944; see CD 88), Matthäus Nagiller (1815-1874)  was  the  third Tyrolean composer to attract attention in Paris as a musician. He founded the Mozart Society in that city and taught theory at the Conservatoire. He had acquired his well-grounded expertise fi rst in Vienna, where his teachers included Gottfried Preyer, the deputy director of music at court, and where he had already won a fi rst prize for composition in his youth. In 1846 Nagiller’s C Minor Symphony was premiered in Paris conducted by himself and enthusiastically received. After this triumph, Nagiller traveled to give concerts in Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, Berlin and Hamburg. His  magnificent  piece  was lauded everywhere. Matthäus Nagiller

Track 2, 1:46
Schützenfreuden
Joahnn Baptist Gänsbacher
(1778-1844)

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