Composers

Franz Danzi

Voice
Orchestra
Piano
Cello
Violin
Viola
Bassoon
Mixed chorus
French horn
Flute
Religious music
Quartet
Sonata
Concerto
Quintet
Song
Lied
Cantatas
Sacred hymns
Hymn
by popularity

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12 Canzonette Italiane, Op.4020 Singübungen, Op.6324 Cello Duets after Opera Melodies3 Flute Quartets, Op.563 String Quartets, Op.293 String Quartets, Op.443 String Quartets, Op.53 String Quartets, Op.553 String Quartets, Op.63 String Quartets, Op.73 String Quintets, Op.663 Wind Quintets, Op.563 Wind Quintets, Op.673 Wind Quintets, Op.686 Deutsche Gesänge, Op.196 Deutsche Lieder, Op.146 Deutsche Lieder, Op.156 Deutsche Lieder, P.181

A

Abraham auf Moria, P.47Ah che incertezza amara

B

Balladen und Romanzen, Op.46Basset Horn Sonata, Op.62Bassoon Concerto in F major, P.236Bassoon Concerto in F major, P.237Bassoon Concerto in G minor, P.238

C

Cello Concertino in D major, P.244Cello Concerto in E minor, P.243Clarinet Potpourri No.2, P.246Concerto Concertant, P.227

D

Das Freudenfest, P.163Die Mitternachtsstunde, P.6Die Tonkunst traurt

E

El Bondocani, P.8Enlèvement de Proserpine, P.21

F

Flute Concerto in D minor, Op.31Flute Sonatina in D major, P.257

H

Horn Sonata, Op.28Horn Sonata, Op.44

L

Laudate Dominum, P.89

M

Meine Ruh ist dahin, P.178

O

O Deus ego amo teO Salutaris Hostia, P.120Ode an die Freude

P

Piano Quartet, Op.40Piano Sonata in F major, Op.3Pièces détachées, P.270Preiss Gottes, P.48Psalm 128, Op.65

Q

Quintet for Winds and Piano, Op.41

S

Salve regina in E-flat major, P.157Sextet, Op.10Sextet, Op.15Sicchè t'inganni, P.173Sinfonia concertante, P.224Singeübungen, Op.32Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in C major, P.293Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in E-flat major, P.292Symphony in D major, P.223

T

Te Deum in C major, P.100Te Deum in D major, P.101

V

Veni Sancte Spiritus, P.161Viola

W

Wind Quintets Opp.56, 67, 68
Wikipedia
Franz Ignaz Danzi (June 15, 1763 – April 13, 1826) was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi (1730–98), and brother of the noted singer Franzeska Danzi. Born in Schwetzingen, Franz Danzi worked in Mannheim, Munich, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, where he died.
Danzi lived at a significant time in the history of European concert music. His career, spanning the transition from the late Classical to the early Romantic styles, coincided with the origin of much of the music that lives in our concert halls and is familiar to contemporary classical-music audiences. As a young man he knew Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whom he revered; he was a contemporary of Ludwig van Beethoven, about whom he—like many of his generation—had strong but mixed feelings; and he was a mentor for the young Carl Maria von Weber, whose music he respected and promoted.
Born in Schwetzingen and raised in Mannheim, Danzi studied with his father and with Georg Joseph Vogler before he joined the superlative orchestra of the Elector Karl Theodor in 1778 as a teenager. In 1780 the first of his woodwind compositions was published at Mannheim. His father, principal cellist of the orchestra, was praised by Mozart for his playing at the premiere of Idomeneo. Danzi remained behind in a Mannheim that was rendered more provincial when Karl Theodor moved his court to Munich in 1778. After an apprenticeship with the small theater orchestra left in Mannheim, he rejoined the main court in Munich as principal cellist—taking his father's position—in 1784.
In 1790 he married the singer and composer Maria Margarethe Marchand, with whom he travelled in an opera troupe to Leipzig, Prague, Venice, and Florence.
By 1798, once more in Munich, he rose to the position of assistant Kapellmeister in one of the most important musical centers of Europe, but in 1807, unhappy at the treatment he received at court and despairing of any further advancement, he left Munich to be Kapellmeister in the smaller and less important Stuttgart court of the new king of Württemberg, Frederick I. After five years he moved again to Karlsruhe, where he spent the last years of his life at the Royal Konservatorium struggling to raise the modest courtly musical establishment to respectability.
He is known today chiefly for his woodwind quintets, in which he took justifiable pride for the idiomatic treatment of the individual instruments. He composed in most major genres of the time, including opera, church music, orchestral works, and many varieties of chamber music. He was a first-rate cellist as well as a conscientious and—by all reports—effective orchestra leader and conductor.
At Schwetzingen, the city concert hall was renamed in his honor in 2005.
Francesca Lebrun (1756–91), a singer and composer, was Franz Danzi's sister.
Among his compositions are: