Carlo d'Ordonez
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Carlo d'Ordonez (Carlo d'Ordoñez."[1], Karl von Ordonetz) (April 19, 1734 - September 16, 1786) Austrian violinist and composer.
Born in Vienna, Ordonez was a government bureaucrat and one of the founding members of the Tonkünstler-Sozietät and a Masonic lodge, and some of his music was conducted by Joseph Haydn. Not much is known about Ordonez' life because a 1927 fire at the Justizpalast probably destroyed many documents that could've been useful to musicologists interested in him.[2]
His opus 1 string quartets are credited as containing "some of the most sophisticated pre-19th-century techniques of cyclic unification."[3] His orchestral music gives greater prominence to the viola section than most of his contemporaries. Ordonez' music includes two stage works, a cantata, at least 70 symphonies, a violin concerto, various chamber music.
See also list of compositions by Carlo d'Ordonez.
[edit] References
- ^ A. Peter Brown, "Ordonez [Ordoñez, Ordonitz, Ordonetz], Carlo d' [Karl von]" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. New York: Macmillan Publishers Limited (1980): 13 702 - 703. "His surname (never apparently spelt with a tilde in 18th-century documents) is probably from his mother, who may have gone to Vienna as a member of the court of Charles VI."
- ^ A. Peter Brown, Introduction to Carlo d'Ordonez, The Symphony Series B Volume IV: Carlo d'Ordonez: Seven Symphonies, ed. A. Peter Brown & Peter M. Alexander. New York: Garland Publishing (1979): ix
- ^ Brown, ibid.
