Rule Britannia, Opus 116 E-Book

Ferdinand Ries

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Deutsch

Seitenzahl: 19

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

The 'Grand Variations on "Rule, Britannia!"'are a pianistic tour de force which is sure to leave audiences breathless for more from this little known composer who served his apprenticeship under both Albrechtsberger and Beethoven. Writen during an eleven year residency in London and based on one of the most enduring patriotic songs of all time, this work stands as testimony to the great affection Ries had for his English home and with it, he endowed our common musical heritage with a work of persuasive grandeur. --- Die 'Grossen Variationen über "Rule, Britannia!"' sind eine pianistische tour de force, die das Publikum atemlos zurücklassen und es neugierig auf weitere Werke dieses wenig bekannten Komponisten machen, der bei Albrechtsberger und Beethoven in die Lehre ging. Die Arbeit wurde während seines elfjährigen Aufenthaltes in London verfasst, und hat das wohl dauerhafteste patriotische Lied aller Zeiten zur Grundlage, ein Zeugnis der grossen Zuneigung, die Ries für seine englische Wahlheimat empfand. Er hinterliess unserem gemeinsamen musikalischen Erbe eine Arbeit von überzeugender Erhabenheit.

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Preface

Ferdinand Ries is today regarded as the most successful member of the Ries musical dynasty. Four generations of the Ries family distinguished themselves as musicians but only Ferdinand Ries, was to have any kind of successful international career as a touring artist and composer of merit Ferdinand received his earliest musical education including piano and violin from his father, Franz Ries alongside cello from the virtuoso, Bernhard Romberg. Importantly, Franz Ries had also taught the violin to the young Beethoven between the years 1785-87. This period in Beethoven’s career is marked by few compositions, and was probably a period of great emotional turmoil following the recent death of his mother. Out of this contact a lifelong friendship between the Ries and Beethoven families was fostered.

Circumstances instigated a change in Ferdinand's early musical education meaning that after a short apprenticeship he was limited to studying at home when the plan had been for him to receive a prestigious education in the court orchestra. The Napoleonic army occupation of the Rhineland in 1794 had resulted in the dissolution of the court orchestra and after seven years of relatively little progress, Franz Ries called upon Beethoven to advance Ferdinand's musical training. Beethoven agreed and in the years 1801-1804 he took Ferdinand on as a student of piano, occasional secretary and music copyist while for composition, Beethoven sent Ferdinand to his own former teacher, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger who had accounted among his other pupils past and present, Joseph Haydn and Johann Nepomuk Hummel. The grounding in Albrechtsberger's lessons provided Ries with a solid understanding of the compositional art but it is perhaps to Beethoven whom we must attribute Ries' flair for the dramatic.