Ferdinando Paër (1771-1839) - Concerto per Organo

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Composer: Ferdinando Paër (1771-1839)
Work: Concerto (Re maggiore) per Organo con strumenti
Performers: Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini (1929-2017, organ); Orchestre de Chambre de Milan; Tito Gotti (1927-2024, conductor)

Concerto per Organo
1. Allegro spiritoso 0:00
2. Andante sostenuto 15:21
3. Rondó allegretto 19:31

Painting: Raffaele Giannetti (1832-1916) - Court rivalry
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Painting: Unknown artist (19th Century) - Portrait of Ferdinando Paer
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Ferdinando (Fernando, Ferdinand) (Francesco) Paër [Baehr, Baer, Beer, Ber, Paeer, Par, Pasir, Peir, Per]
(Parma, 1 June 1771 - Paris, 3 May 1839)

Italian composer. He studied with Francesco Fortunati and Gaspare Ghiretti in Parma, producing his first stage work, the prose opera 'Orphee et Euridice', there in 1791. On July 14, 1792, he was appointed honorary maestro di cappella to the court of Parma, bringing out his opera 'Le astuzie amorose' that same year at the Teatro Ducale there. His finest work of the period was 'Griselda, ossia La virtu at cimento' (Parma, 1798). In 1797 he was appointed music director ofthe Karnthnertortheater in Vienna. While there, he made the acquaintance of Beethoven, who expressed admiration for his work. It was in Vienna that he composed one of his finest operas, 'Camilla, ossia II sotteraneo' (1799). After a visit to Prague in 1801, he accepted the appointment of court Kapellmeister in Dresden. Three of his most important operas were premiered there: 'I Fuorusciti di Firenze' 1802), 'Sargino, ossia L'Allievo del Vamore' (1803), and 'Leonora, ossia L'amore conjugate' (1804), a work identical in subject with that of Beethoven's Fidelio (1805). In 1806 he resigned his Dresden post and accepted an invitation to visit Napoleon in Posen and Warsaw. In 1807 Napoleon appointed him his maitre de chapelle in Paris, where he also became director of the Opera-Comique. Following the dismissal of Spontini in 1812, he was appointed director of the Theatre-Italien. One of his most successful operas of the period, 'Le Maitre de chapelle' (Paris, 1821), remained in the repertoire in its Italian version until the early years of the 20th century. Paer's tenure at the Theatre-Italien continued through the vicissitudes of Catalani's management (1814-17) and the troubled joint directorship with Rossini (1824-27). After his dismissal in 1827, he was awarded the cross of the Legion d'honneur in 1828 and he was elected a member of the Institute of the Academie des Beaux Arts in 1831. He was appointed director of music of Louis Philippe's private chapel in 1832. As a composer, he was a prolific composer, producing at least 55 operas, most of them during the 25-year span from 1791 to 1816. His vocal writing was highly effective, as was his instrumentation. He was one of the central figures in the development of opera semiseria during the first decade of the 19th century. Nevertheless, his operas have disappeared from the active repertoire.