Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz
Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz (Czech: Jan Křtitel Krumpholtz) (8 May 1742 – 19 Fe… Read Full Bio ↴Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz (Czech: Jan Křtitel Krumpholtz) (8 May 1742 – 19 February 1790) was a Czech composer and harpist.
Krumpholz was born in Budenice, near Zlonice. He learned music from his father while growing up in Paris; in 1773 he played a successful harp concerto in the Burgtheater in Vienna. After serving three years in Count Esterházy's court orchestra (1773–1776) during which he is said to have taken counterpoint lessons with Joseph Haydn, he embarked on a successful concert tour of Europe. In Paris and Metz he worked along with manufacturers Jean Henri Naderman, his son François Joseph Naderman, and S. Erard towards improving the construction of the harp. He composed concertos and sonatas for harp and chamber music. He drowned himself in the Seine after his pupil and later wife, Anne-Marie Krumpholtz (1755–1824), also a virtuoso harpist, eloped to London, although the story that this was with pianist Jan Ladislav Dussek is apocryphal.
Krumpholz composed 52 sonatas, 6 concertos and many preludes and variations for harp. He wrote also harp duets, quartets and 4 sonatas for harp, 2 violins, 2 French horns and cello.
Krumpholz was born in Budenice, near Zlonice. He learned music from his father while growing up in Paris; in 1773 he played a successful harp concerto in the Burgtheater in Vienna. After serving three years in Count Esterházy's court orchestra (1773–1776) during which he is said to have taken counterpoint lessons with Joseph Haydn, he embarked on a successful concert tour of Europe. In Paris and Metz he worked along with manufacturers Jean Henri Naderman, his son François Joseph Naderman, and S. Erard towards improving the construction of the harp. He composed concertos and sonatas for harp and chamber music. He drowned himself in the Seine after his pupil and later wife, Anne-Marie Krumpholtz (1755–1824), also a virtuoso harpist, eloped to London, although the story that this was with pianist Jan Ladislav Dussek is apocryphal.
Krumpholz composed 52 sonatas, 6 concertos and many preludes and variations for harp. He wrote also harp duets, quartets and 4 sonatas for harp, 2 violins, 2 French horns and cello.
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02Andante con Variatone for Harp: Andante con Variatone for HarpJean-Baptiste KrumpholzJean-Baptiste Krumpholz
03Harp Sonata in B-Flat Major,Op. 13 No. 1: II. RomanceJean-Baptiste KrumpholzJean-Baptiste Krumpholz
04Harp Sonata in B-Flat Major,Op. 13 No. 1: I. AllegrettoJean-Baptiste KrumpholzJean-Baptiste Krumpholz
05Harp Sonata in B-Flat Major,Op. 13 No. 1: III. RondoJean-Baptiste KrumpholzJean-Baptiste Krumpholz
10Krumpholz: Concerto in F Major for Harp and Orchestra, Op. 9, No.6: II. RomanceJean-Baptiste KrumpholzJean-Baptiste Krumpholz
11Harp Sonata in G Minor, Op. 17 No. 1 "Comme en scéne demi-caracteré": III. Allegro assaiJean-Baptiste KrumpholzJean-Baptiste Krumpholz
12Harp Sonata in G Minor, Op. 17 No. 1 "Comme en scéne demi-caracteré": I. Allegro assaiJean-Baptiste KrumpholzJean-Baptiste Krumpholz
13Harp Sonata in G Minor, Op. 17 No. 1 "Comme en scéne demi-caracteré": IV. AllegrettoJean-Baptiste KrumpholzJean-Baptiste Krumpholz
14Harp Sonata in G Minor, Op. 17 No. 1 "Comme en scéne demi-caracteré": II. AndanteJean-Baptiste KrumpholzJean-Baptiste Krumpholz
15Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, Op 5 No 7 (Rondeau - Allegro)Jean-Baptiste KrumpholzJean-Baptiste Krumpholz
17Krumpholz: Concerto in F Major for Harp and Orchestra, Op. 9, No. 6: I. Allegro moderatoJean-Baptiste KrumpholzJean-Baptiste Krumpholz
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