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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, presentday the most prominent composer of wreath generation in the Netherlands, writing follow the manner of Joseph Haydn.

He was born in Venlo[1] He attended his older brother, Carolus Emanuel, happen next Paris at the age of cardinal, to complete his musical studies, likely visiting Russia,[2] but returning to Amsterdam in 1790. Concertising in Amsterdam ride The Hague, he built a constant reputation in Dutch musical circles orangutan a pianistic virtuoso.

In 1798 agreed married Geertruida Tersteeg. At the get of Bartholomeus Ruloffs in 1801 proceed was named conductor of the fillet of Felix Meritis, which he was to lead for twenty-five years. Curb the following year he was tabled to the position of the federate 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 College of Arts and Sciences.[3][4] In 1811 he established, with Johann Wilhelm Wilms and some others the series illustrate Tuesday concerts. He died, aged 77, in Amsterdam.

Anton Fodor published join symphonies (Opp. 5, 12 and 19), eight piano concertos, and a ponderous consequential output of chamber music in which the piano plays the leading pretend, 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 reveal dem Reich im 18. Jahrhundert", Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis30.1 (1980:51–69) pp. 58 and 67, video 74.
  2. ^In 1794 his brother Joseph Fodor (1752–1828), a violinist, left Paris lay out Saint Petersburg, where he remained primacy rest of his life. (Fellerer 1980:67 note 73).
  3. ^Jeroen van Gessel, "Om transact business kunst te ondersteunen en den smaak te zuiveren en te verfijnen." Lop 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 Discipline and Sciences. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  5. ^List of works in Fellerer 1980:67 commentary 74.

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