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Friedrich Witt: Symphony in C major, 'Jena', Franz Konwitschny (conductor)

Friedrich Witt - Symphonie C-dur 'Jenaer', Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Franz Konwitschny (conductor) 1. Adagio - Allegro vivace – 00:00 2. Adagio cantabile – 08:48 3. Menuetto. Maestoso – 16:45 4. Finale. Allegro – 20:39 Recorded: 1956-06-20 (still accredited to Beethoven) Friedrich Jeremias Witt (November 8, 1770 – January 3, 1836) was a German cellist and composer of considerable stature in his time. He was born in the Württemberg village of Niederstetten, the son of a cantor and court clerk. Witt became a cellist (some accounts say a violinist) in the court orchestra of Oettingen-Wallerstein when he was nineteen, taking composition lessons there with Antonio Rosetti, the Bohemian-born Anton Rösler. Witt was most famous in his lifetime for his oratorio Der leidende Heiland (The Suffering Saviour), securing an appointment as Kapellmeister for the Prince of Würzburg, and later for the theater, where he stayed until his death. He also wrote two operas: Palma (1804) and Das Fischerweib (1806). His other compositions include concertos, church music, chamber music and symphonies. He is perhaps best known as the likely author of a Symphony in C major known as the „Jena Symphony”, once attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven. It is largely based on the Symphony No. 97 by Joseph Haydn. The symphony parts were found by Fritz Stein in 1909 in the archives of a concert society in Jena, from which it derived its name, listing “Louis van Beethoven” as the author. When Fritz Stein found these parts, he doubted the attribution but became convinced it was authentic Beethoven due to the score containing certain “Beethovenisms”. Stein's belief in Beethoven's authorship was strengthened by the fact that Beethoven's letters show that prior to writing his own Symphony No. 1 he tried to write a C major symphony with Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 97 as a model, and so the work was published by Breitkopf und Härtel in 1911. Others were not so sure, suggesting most or all of it had been written by a lesser-known composer. Finally, when H. C. Robbins Landon found another copy of the work (in 1957) at the archives of Göttweig Abbey with Witt's name on it, he convinced most other scholars that the work was in fact by Witt. Regardless of who wrote it, this symphony is an excellent exemplar of the classical symphony prior to Beethoven’s Eroica.