Joseph Leopold Eybler - Symphonies 1 & 2

Joseph Leopold Eybler - Symphonies 1 & 2
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CPO | Recorded: 2004 | Released: 2005
L’Orchestre de Chambre de Genève - Michael Hofstetter

CPO presents a disc of orchestral works by Joseph Eybler, who was considered by one of his teachers, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, to be ‘the greatest musical genius in Vienna, second only to Mozart’. Mozart himself also wrote of Eybler in 1790 ‘A young musician and composer of a quality that is only too rarely found’.

Eybler’s excellent reputation was founded mostly on his church music, which has already been well documented in three CPO releases. However, few people that he also wrote two symphonies in the late 1790s, which deserve to be heard.

The Orchestre de Chambre de Genève conducted by Michael Hofstetter deliver lively interpretations of the two works for orchestra whose orchestration primarily concentrates on the string section.

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“I,
the undersigned, attest herewith that I have found the bearer of this, Herr
Joseph Eybler, to be a worthy pupil of his famous master
Albrechtsberger, a well-grounded composer, equally skilled at chamber
music and the church style, fully experienced in the art of the song,
also an accomplished organ and clavier player; in short a young musician
such, one can only regret, as so seldom has his equal.”


Wolfgang Amade’ Mozart

- Symphony No. 1

- Symphony No. 2

- Overture