Johann Anton André (1775-1842), the scion of a Huguenot family that emigrated to Germany at the end of the seventeenth century, is known among musical experts primarily as the first publisher of Mozart’s works, but hardly as a composer. On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Johann André Music Publishers in Offenbach, the firm founded by André’s father in 1774, this first ever production of Johann Anton’s works presents a series of chamber music works from around 1800. They reveal a young, open- minded talent who developed an original personal style before the consolidation of what was to become known in music history by the epochal term „Viennese Classicism“: a craft honed on models by Mozart and Haydn meets elegance and subtle irony, an inheritance from Johann Anton’s French ancestors.
Sonate für Klavier, Violine und Cello, Op. 17
Allegro con moto
Andantino quasi Adagio
Rondo Allegretto
Duett Nr. 2 G-Dur, Op. 27
Allegro commodo
Rondo Allegretto
Piotr Niewiadomski, Tomasz Tomaszewski -Violin
Streichquartett Nr. 1 C-Dur, Op. 14
Allegro brioso
Andante moderato
Menuetto – Allegro scherzoso ma brioso
Allegretto Vivace
Total time 55:41
PRODUCTION
©and eda records, 2024
RECORDING DATES AND VENUES
19-22 February 2024 Emil-Berliner-Studios, Berlin
RECORDING PRODUCER/EDITING/MIXING
Lukas Kowalski
EDITING
Simon Nitzl
MASTERED
at Emil-Berliner-Studios, Berlin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Frank Harders-Wuthenow, eda records
Ralph Philipp Ziegle
BOOKLET NOTES
Axel Beer
TRANSLATIONS
Howard Weiner
PICTURES
Cover: Johann Anton André: © Haus der Stadtgeschichte Offenbach am Main
p.5 Johann Anton André:© Besitz Familie André
p.7 Cover der Notenausgabe: © Archiv Verlag Johann André
p.10 Adam Tomaszewski: © Ksenia Shaushyshvili
p. 13 Polish String Quartet Berlin: © Hans-Jörg André
p.14 Polish String Quartet Berlin: © Rainer Maillard
DESIGN
Isabell Simon
CONTACT
Eda records
Erkelenzdamm 63
D-10999 Berlin
www.eda-records.com