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Franz Lachner – Symphony No. 1, Op. 32 (1830)

Franz Paul Lachner (2 April 1803 – 20 January 1890) was a German composer and conductor. Symphony No. 1 (1830) I. Allegro con brio 0:00 II. Andante 11:09 III. Scherzo. Allegro assai 18:30 IV. Finale. Allegro con brio 25:40 Singapore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hoey Choo Franz Lachner, in the course of a long life in music, was, as a young man, a friend of Schubert in Vienna. In later years he was involved less happily with Wagner in Munich, preparing the 1865 performance of The Flying Dutchman, before being forced into retirement. Lachner was a member of a musical family, children of an organist and clock-maker in Rain am Lech, in Bavaria. His step-brother Theodor, born in 1798 was an organist and was to be employed as chorus-master at the Munich court theatre, while his sisters Thekla and Christiane were both organists. Franz Lachner's younger brothers, Ignaz, born in 1807, and Vinzenz, born in 1811, were also, in the first place, organists, the former going on to a busy career as a conductor and composer that took him from Vienna to Stuttgart, Munich, Hamburg, Stockholm and Frankfurt am Main, and the latter serving for 37 years as court Kapellmeister in Mannheim, where on one occasion he incurred the disapproval of Berlioz by substituting an extended trombone for an ophicleide in the Symphonie fantastique. Franz Lachner, the most successful member of the family, became organist at the Lutheran church in Vienna in 1823, studying with Simon Sechter, a man who composed a fugue every day, the teacher of Bruckner. Lachner also took lessons from the Abbé Stadler, a leading scholar in the eyes of his contemporaries. In Vienna he was a close friend of Schubert and of the artist Moritz von Schwind and had made the acquaintance of Beethoven. In 1829 Lachner became principal conductor at the Kärntnertor Theater in Vienna, where he had been assistant conductor since 1827. Seven years later, in 1836, he moved to Munich, where he became conductor of the court opera, after a short period in Mannheim. It was in Munich that he was to spend the greater part of his professional life, adding to his responsibilities at the opera the duties involved in conducting concerts of the Musikalische Akademie and Königliche Vokalkapelle. Lachner's work in Munich was eminently successful. Under his guidance the proficiency of the orchestra and the opera developed, a result from which Wagner was to profit, when infatuation of the young Ludwig of Bavaria brought him to the city. In 1865, soon after Wagner's arrival, Lachner sought retirement. He died in Munich in 1890. Moritz von Schwind made later sketches of Lachner in company with Schubert, Vogl, Bauernfeld and other friends in Vienna. It is from Lachner that we have the story of Schubert's inspiration for the last movement of the D minor Quartet, the principal theme derived from the sound of his antiquated coffee-mill – der Kopf sucht manchmal tag'lang nach einem Motiv, das die kleine Maschin' da in aner Sekund' find't. Hor amal! Lachner was to recall the matter fifty years later, remembering those early years in Vienna, the years to which his music rightly seems to belong. The Symphony in E-flat, the first of eight, was completed in 1828. It illustrates Lachner's affinities with Spohr and the strong influence of Schubert. At the same time the instruction of Sechter in counterpoint bears obvious fruit, while one may suspect a touch of the popular Rossini in the finale.