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Joseph Küffner (1776-1856) - Potpourri für Querflöte und Gitarre

★ Follow music ►   / reciclassicat   Composer: Joseph Küffner (1776-1856) Work: Potpourri für Querflöte und Gitarre Performers: Hеnnеr HеppеI (flute); Siegfried Behrend (1933-1990, guitar) Drawing: Anonymous (19th century) - Würzburg; the Residenz (c.1845) Image in high resolution: https://flic.kr/p/2mmnquz Further info: https://www.amazon.co.uk/W%C3%BCrzbur... Listen free: https://open.spotify.com/album/3kVJTx... --- Joseph (Josef) (Georg) Küffner [Kueffner, Kiefner] (Würzburg, 31 March 1776 - Würzburg, 9 September 1856) German musician and composer. Born as the fifth child of the Franconian musician family Küffner, his father Wilhelm Küffner was a court musician and composer and his mother Katharina Wassmuth, the daughter of the court conductor Johann Franz Georg Wassmuth in Würzburg. After the early death of his parents, he had to look after himself and his two younger siblings. He earned his living as an auxiliary musician, violinist and guitarist in the prince-bishop's court orchestra and also appeared as a soloist. Self-taught, he learned to play the flute, clarinet, trombone and French horn. In 1798, Prince-Bishop Georg Karl von Fechenbach engaged him with the reform of the Würzburg military music. With the secularization of the Duchy of Würzburg in 1803 and its incorporation into the Kingdom of Bavaria, he temporarily lost his post as court musician. Küffner successfully applied for a position as a music teacher at the Electoral Bavarian Light Infantry Battalion "La Motte" and trained the military musicians. A year later he got the same job with the Electoral Bavarian 12th Line Infantry Regiment "Löwenstein". For both associations he composed two-part military marches in slow and fast pace. By 1825 he had written 36 compositions for military music, including three overtures and 20 potpourris on themes from operas by Auber and Rossini and Carl Maria von Weber, which were popular at the time. This made Küffner the first German arranger for wind orchestras. As early as 1805, the Würzburg chronicler Carl Gottfried Scharold reported: "When the guard is relieved at noon around 12 o'clock, a well-cast band of musicians usually plays some pleasant pieces and delights the audience." The most demanding military music composition is likely to be his "Symphony for Military Music" Opus 165. A gout ailment caused Küffner to terminate his contract as "military music director" with the Bavarian Army in 1825. Küffner was never a soldier and never wore a uniform. In all documents in the Bavarian State Archives he is referred to as a “court and chamber musician”. He was an employee of the army and had no authority. The military superiors of the military musicians were the Regimentstambours until 1811, and from 1811 to 1818 the music masters with the rank of sergeants, whose musical training Küffner also took over. As a member of the royal court orchestra from 1806 to 1814 of Grand Duke Ferdinand III von Toscana composed Küffner mainly for string instruments, but also for wind instruments. He often used the guitar as an accompanying instrument. As a composer, he wrote over than 360 works, 36 of them for military music.