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KOWAR Helmut
Josef Haydn - Sämtliche Flötenuhren

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Publisher: VÖAW
Format: AudioCD mit Booklet mit 20 Seiten, OEAW PHA CD 29
Serial:  Mechanische Musikinstrumente  7
ISBN13: 978-3-7001-6681-8

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Joseph Haydn composed special music for musical clocks, and he did this obviously in close cooperation with his colleague at the Esterhazy court, the court chaplain and librarian P. Primitivus Niemecz, who became especially known for his skills in building musical automata. Two flute clocks (from 1792 and 1793) are extant bearing the signature of Niemecz, two others are attributed to him. There is an additional flute clock, made by Johann Joseph Wiest, which was on exhibition until 1804 in Deym´s art gallery in Vienna, thus presenting Haydn´s music to the public - while the Niemecz clocks did not leave private rooms during Haydn´s lifetime. These five instruments have 38 musical pieces on their barrels: 18 original compositions by Haydn or arrangements he himself made of his own works, the remaining pieces probably provided by Niemecz, who was also a musician and a pupil of Haydn. Many pieces show up on two or three clocks, so that the complete edition comprises 65 titles. The five flute clocks saw a changeful history ending up in private and public ownership in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. With this CD their musical repertoire is presented for the first time collectively and completely. more...

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