Franz Krommer
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Franz Krommer (lang-cz: František Vincenc Kramář) (November 27, 1759 – January 8, 1831) was a Moravian composer of classical music, whose seventy-year life began the year of the death of George Frideric Handel and ended a few years after that of Ludwig van Beethoven.
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[edit] Life
The main events of his life were somewhat as follows:
- From 1773 to 1776, he studied violin and organ with his uncle, Antonín Mattias Kramár, in Turán. Here he became organist along with his uncle in 1777. In 1785 he returned to Vienna as violinist in the orchestra of the duke of Styria, now in Simontornya in Hungary.
- In 1790 Krommer was named Maestro di Capella at the Cathedral of Pécs in Hungary. He returned again to Vienna in 1795, before becoming Maestro di Capella this time for Duke Ignaz Fuchs in 1798.
- From 1813 (and from 1818, Kapellmeister, according to the HOASM biography) until his death in 1831, Krommer was the successor to Leopold Kozeluch in the position of court composer for the Imperial Court of Austria.
[edit] Composition
His output was prolific, with at least three hundred published compositions in at least 110 opus numbers including at least five symphonies, seventy string quartets and many others for winds and strings, about fifteen string quintets ([1]) and much music for winds by themselves and with other instruments, for which he has perhaps become best-known.
[edit] Partial worklist
Very incomplete worklist, compiled from from Library of Congress records (of scores, parts or recordings. Note that some works by Krommer were published with the same opus number.
- opus 2 - three duos for two violins
- opus 3 - three quartets for strings
- opus 5 - three quartets for strings
- opus 6 - three duos for two violins
- opus 9 - variations for violin solo
- opus 9 - also the opus number of a set of string quartets.
- opus 11 - string quintets
- opus 12 - symphony no. 1 in F major
- opus 13 - Quartet for flute, violin, viola, violoncello in D major.
- opus 18 - three string quartets (re?published by Edition Kunzelmann, c2000)
- opus 18 - Concertino for flute, oboe, violin, horn and orchestra in C (possibly an arrangement of one of the quartets in the set also published as opus 18)
- opus 20 - three string quartets
- opus 21 - quartets for clarinet and strings
- opus 22 - duets for violins (Canadian National Library)
- opus 24 - three string quartets
- opus 25 - three quintets for two violins, two violas and bass
- opus 26 - string quartets (no. 1 in C at Canadian National Library)
- opus 30 - flute concerto no. 1 in G
- opus 31 - Marches for woodwinds, two horns and trumpet.
- opus 32 - sonata for piano accompanied by viola and cello, in F
- opus 33 - duets for violins (Canadian National Library)
- opus 35 - concerto for two clarinets in E♭
- opus 36 - clarinet concerto in E♭
- opus 37 - oboe concerto in F
- opus 38 - Concertino pour flute, hautbois et basse
- opus 39 - concertino for woodwinds, violin and orchestra in G
- opus 40 - symphony no. 2 in D major
- opus 42 - sonata for violin with the accompaniment of a viola
- opus 44 - fifth concerto for violin and orchestra
- opus 44 also - flute concerto in D (possibly the same work??)
- opus 45 - sonata for violin and cello in C (Canadian National Library) (See above)
- opus 45 number 1 - Partitas, woodwinds, horns (2), trumpet in B♭ major.
- opus 45 number 2 - Harmony (Partita) for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, trumpet, 2 bassoons, and contrabassoon.
- opus 45 number 3 - Harmony (Partita) in B♭ major for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, trumpet, 2 horns, 2 bassoons, and contrabassoon (re?published by Döblinger in 1999.)
- opus 46 number 1 - Quartet in B♭ for bassoon, two violas and cello.
- opus 46 number 2 - Quartet in E♭ for bassoon, two violas and cello.
- opus 47 - thirteen pieces for two clarinets and viola (or three clarinets)
- opus 49 - quintet for flute, violin, two violas, and cello (published by Bureau d’Arts et d’Industrie, Vienna, 1800s) (in the NKC library in the Czech republic. Recorded on the label Edit, 1996.)
- opus 51 - duets for violins (Canadian National Library)
- opus 52 - oboe concerto in F
- opus 54 - duos for two violins
- opus 57 - harmony (octet-partita) for winds in F
- opus 58 - quintet for flute, violin, two violas, and cello (in the NKC library)
- opus 59 - variations on a Bohemian folksong for flute, violin, viola and cello
- opus 62 - symphony no. 3 in D major (about to be republished, 2006, by Ries & Erler. The old André edition is at the Library of Congress - Grande sinfonie pour 2 violons, flûte, 2 haut-bois, 2 clarinettes, 2 bassons, 2 cors, 2 trompettes, timbales, alto & basse...)
- opus 63 - quintet for flute and strings (flute, violin, two violas, and cello) in C (published by Sieber in Paris, between 1799 and 1813, republished in 2000.)
- opus 65 - concertino for flute, oboe and orchestra in C
- opus 67 - octet-partita in B♭
- opus 69 - "harmonie" (for wind-ensemble) for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, horn and contrabassoon in E♭
- opus 70 - sinfonia concertante for violin, flute, clarinet and orchestra in E♭
- opus 70 also - string quintet in E♭
- opus 71 - partita for winds in E♭
- opus 72 - string quartets (nos. 1 in C and 3 in A♭ published by Theo Wyatt in their Merton Music series in 1996.)
- opus 73 - partita for winds in F
- opus 75 - quartet for flute, violin, viola and cello in D
- opus 76 - partita for winds in C
- opus 77 - partita for winds in F
- opus 78 - partita for winds in B♭
- opus 79 - octet-partita/nonet for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons, and contrabassoon in E♭.
- opus 80 - sinfonia concertante for flute, clarinet violin and orchestra in D
- opus 82 - quartet for clarinet, violin, viola and cello in D.
- opus 83 - harmonie for winds in F
- opus 84 - piano trio no. 1 for piano, violin and cello in B♭ major
- opus 85 - string quartets (no. 1 in F published in the Merton Music series.)
- opus 86 - concerto for flute and orchestra in E minor
- opus 87 - piano trio no. 2 for piano, violin and cello in F major
- opus 88 - three (?) quintets for strings (number 1 is in E♭, number 2 is in D minor)
- opus 90 - quartet for clarinet and strings in C major
- opus 91 - quintet for flute and strings in D major
- opus 91 also - concerto in E♭ for two clarinets and orchestra
- opus 92 - quartet for flute and strings in G (National Library of Canada)
- opus 94 - Duets for violins (Canadian National Library)
- opus 95 - quintet for clarinet and strings in B♭ major
- opus 96 - string trio.
- opus 102 - symphony no. 4, C minor.
- opus 104 - Quintets, flute, violin, violas, violoncello in E♭ major.
- opus 105 - symphony no. 5 (this from other sources)
- opus 108 - Mass for solo singers and orchestra
- opus 110 - Duets for violins
without opus number:
- partita in C minor
- " (often referred to as "Ben 338" : trio in F for two oboes and english horn, variations on a theme by Pleyel
- violin concerto in F (edited from a ms. in the Archiepiscopal Archive in Kroměříž, according to the Kunzelmann edition.)
"Ben" refers to the cataloguing work done on Ignaz Pleyel and Krommer's work by Rita Benton.
[edit] Further reading
- Padrta, Karel. Franz Krommer (1959-1831); Thematischer Katalog seiner musikalischen Werke. Prague: Supraphon. 1997. 425 pp. ISBN 80-7058-388-6 (pbk.)
- Zouhar, Zdenek. Frantisek Vincenc Kramar : 1759-1959 : vyberova bibliografie. V Brne: Universitní Knihovna:1959.
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- Note: occasionally a system of classification of Krommer's works is seen in use based on Padrta's work. For example, the quintet for flute and strings opus 55 in E minor is PadK VII/3, the concerto opus 86 for flute and orchestra (also in E minor, and often played with clarinet solo) is PadK III/16. These examples are taken from the listings at a Czech radio station's website which gives both the standard opus numbers (when available) and the newer system (Rozhlas D-Dur.)
