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Anton Reicha was born in Prague, Czech Republic on February 26, 1770. His father Šimon, the town piper of the city, died when Anton was just 10 months old.
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Anton Reicha's Treatise on Melody (1814) was one of the most widely read and influential treatises of the early to mid-19th century. Reicha systematically lays out a theory of melodic phraseology, examines factors of cadential closure and prolongation, and provides an early classification of musical forms (including the first description of his grande coupe binaire). Reicha's progressive theories of rhythm, motivic development, harmony, musical perception, and "idea" in music influenced compositional practice for much of the 19th century. Many leading composers came into his orbit, including Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Adolphe Adam, Charles Gounod, and Cesar Franck. Reicha was one of the first theorists to base his ideas empirically on musical practice. The treatise contains a full 77 pages of musical examples and analyses, many of which are overlaid with analytical symbols and technical apparatus. Remarkable for its time, this collection of musical analyses provides the reader with a rare glimpse into how musical processes were formulated by one of the most informed musical minds of the age.
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( The Czech composer Anton Reicha (1770-1836) was famous ...)
The Czech composer Anton Reicha (1770-1836) was famous as both an experimental composer and as a teacher and theorist. His "36 Fugues for Piano" testify to this experimentalism; they can be seen as a type of "Well-Tempered Piano of the new ages", basing the traditional Baroque fugue on radical new fundaments. The first edition of this unusual collection was produced in 1803 in Vienna by Reicha's own publishing company "Au Magasin de l'Imprimerie chimique". It included both a dedication poem to Joseph Haydn and a comprehensive foreword in which Reicha identifies the characteristics of his compositional style. The second edition (Vienna 1805) included a short theoretical text "Über das neue Fugensystem" ("On the new fugal system") in the form of a polemic, reacting to his critics, one of whom was Beethoven. Six fugues are based on the themes of other composers (Haydn, Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti, Frescobaldi, Handel). Publisher ID: BA9541
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musical theorist teacher of composition
Anton Reicha was born in Prague, Czech Republic on February 26, 1770. His father Šimon, the town piper of the city, died when Anton was just 10 months old.
He was educated chiefly by his uncle, Joseph Reicha (1746 - 1795), a clever violoncellist, who first received him into his house at Wallerstein in Bohemia, and afterwards carried him to Bonn.
About 1789, he was made flutist in the orchestra of the elector. In 1794 he went to Hamburg and gave music lessons there, also producing the opera Godefroid de Montfort. He was in Paris in 1799 and in Vienna from 1802 to 1808, during which period he saw much of Beethoven and Haydn. In the latter year he returned to Paris, where he produced three operas without much success. In 1817 he succeeded Mehul as professor of counterpoint at the Conservatoire. In 1829 he was naturalized as a Frenchman, and in 1835 he was admitted as a member of the Institute in the place of Boieldieu. His Traitt de melodie (Paris, 1814), Corns de composition musicale (Paris, 1818), Traite de haute composition musicale (Paris, 1824 - 26), and Art du compositeur dramatique (Paris, 1833), are valuable and instructive essays for the student, though many of the theories they set forth are now condemned as erroneous. Due to Reicha's unwillingness to have his music published (like Michael Haydn before him), he fell into obscurity soon after his death and his life and work have yet to be intensively studied.
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In 1818 he married Virginie Enaust, who bore him two daughters.