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František Ignác Antonín Tůma - Sinfonias, Partitas & Sonata - Antiquarius Consort Praga

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Date: 19 Nov 2009 21:11:55

František Ignác Antonín Tůma - Sinfonias, Partitas & Sonata - Antiquarius Consort Praga

František Ignác Antonín Tůma was born on 2 October 1704 in Kostelec nad Orlicí. It was from his father, the organist in Kostelec, that he received his first training in music. Later, in Prague, he attended a Jesuit seminary, and sang in the choir of the Church of St James. It was under the choirmaster there, Bohuslav Matej Cernohorsky, that he received further musical training. At the premiere of the opera Costanza e Fortezza, by Johann Joseph Fux, performed for the coronation of Emperor Charles VI as King of Bohemia, Tůma played the theorbo with Silvius Leopold Weiss. In 1722 he moved to Vienna allegedly to become Kapellmeister in a church. Tuma's name, however, first appears in the local records only in April 1729, when his son was born. In 1731 he became Court Composer and Kapellmeister to Prince Ferdinand Kinsky, who enabled him to study counterpoint under Fux. The relations between Tuma and Kinsky were excellent; for instance, the Prince was the godfather to three of Tůma's children, and in 1734 he recommended Tůma to the position of Kapellmeister in the Cathedral of St Vitus, Prague. Unfortunately the recommendation was made too late, and Tůma remained in his service till Kinsky died in 1741. Later he became head of the orchestra of Emperor Charles VI's widow. After her death, in 1750, Tuma remained on a decent pension (which she had ensured for him), and was for the next eighteen years active as a composer and accomplished player of the viola da gamba and theorbo. The Imperial Court greatly appreciated his skills as an instrumentalist. The Empress Maria Theresa commissioned him to compose on the psalm Miserere mei, and as a token of her gratitude presented him with a hundred ducats. In 1768 Tůma divorced his wife Alzbeta (Elisabeth) in order to enter the Premonstratensian monastery in Geras, Lower Austria. Five years later he came down with a chronic lung ailment, and returned to Vienna, where he died in hospital on 30 April 1774.

Tůma's work belongs to the music of the Late Baroque. His instrumental compositions are known today thanks to a modern edition of his music, but his vocal compositions still await their re-introduction. Of a total of 224 compositions by Tůma only 48 are instrumental. He was chiefly a composer of church music, as is evident from his 65 masses, 25 motets, 29 vespers and psalms, 20 litanies, 13 Antiphons of the Blessed Virgin Mary, five Stabat Maters, hymns, a Magnificat, and responsorios. Some of his masses are written in a strictly contrapuntal style, under the influence of his teacher, Fux, whereas others are a capella; the more modern and interesting are closer in style to Antonio Caldara. Many of Tůma's church compositions were known by Hayden and Mozart. Among these instrumental works are his trio and quartet sonatas, symphonies, and partitas, mostly for string instruments and continuo, some of which, however, were also played by orchestras. The polyphony of the composition predominates, but there are also homophonic movements with simpler harmonies foreshadowing the Classical music that was to come. (Vitezslav Janda)

Antiquarius Consort Praga is an ensemble that emerged out of a desire to play early music as it most probably sounded when it was written. For the ‘authentic interpretation' of early music Antiquarius Consort Praga brought together leading specialists/players of period instruments in the Bohemian Lands. Their guiding principle has been the systematic study of archive records to discover period details that they then join with a high degree of personal sensitivity - the key to discovering and communicating the true picture of the spiritual legacy of the past.

Tracklist:

I. Sonata in A minor
01 Vivace 1:54
02 Largo 1:39
03 Allegro 1:19

VIII. Partita in G major
04 Allegro 2:37
05 Andante 3:59
06 Menuet Trio 4:12
07 Les Cloches (Allegretto) 2:31

II. Partita in A minor
08 Allegretto 3:37
09 Andante 2:31
10 Allegro 1:24
11 Largo 2:29
12 Menuet (Allegro assai. Larghetto e piano) 3:27

IX. Partita in F major
13 Allegro 3:27
14 Sarabanda (Largo) 2:19
15 Menuet. Trio 3:27
16 Allegro 1:46

XI. Sinfonia in B flat major
17 Adagio 3:25
18 Allegro 3:14
19 Andante 3:58
20 Allegretto 2:57

XII. Sinfonia in D major
21 Andante 1:34
22 Allegro strepitoso 3:29
23 Sarabanda (Largo e piano) 2:08
24 Menuet I. Menuet II 3:02
25 La Bachante (Allegro) 2:16

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