Thomas Attwood (1765-1838) - Trio for the piano forte, violin and violoncello obligato ()

Happy birthday Thomas Attwood! 🎭🎹 Composer: Thomas Attwood (1765-1838) Work: Trio for the piano forte, violin and violoncello obligato, Op. I () Performers: Concilium Musicum Wien Trio for the piano forte, violin and violoncello obligato () 1. Allegro moderato 0:00 2. Adagio con espressione 7:05 3. Rondo 11:58 Drawing: Edward Dayes (1763-1804) - Lancaster (1794) HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Thomas Attwood (London, bap. 23 November 1765 - London, 24 March 1838) English composer and organist. His father, Thomas Attwood, was an under-page to George III, and a viola player and trumpeter in the King’s Band. Throughout his life Attwood benefited from royal patronage. At 9, he became a chorister at the Chapel Royal. In 1781 he was made one of the Pages of the Presence to the Prince of Wales, who made it possible for him to study in Naples with Felipe Cinque and Gaetano Latilla (1783-85). He then went to Vienna, where he received composition lessons from Mozart. In 1787 he returned to England and resumed his court position. He was made music teacher to the Duchess of York in 1791 and to the Princess of Wales in 1795. In 1796 he became organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral and composer at the Chapel Royal. In 1813 he helped to organize the Philharmonic Society of London, with which he appeared as a conductor. When the Royal Academy of Music in London was organized in 1823, he was made a professor. In 1825 he became musician-in-ordinary to the king. He was named organist of the Chapel Royal in 1836. Mendelssohn became his close friend, and among his students were his godson, Thomas Attwood Walmisley, George Bridgetower and Cipriani Potter. Attwood’s compositions, whether for the stage, the church or the home, were profoundly affected by his intense experience as Mozart’s pupil. His output includes music for some 30 stage works, several instrumental pieces, much vocal music, including the fine coronation anthems ’I was glad’ (1821) and ’O Lord, grant the king a long life’ (1831), a Service in F, songs and glees. Thomas Attwood Walmisley edited ’Services and Anthems Composed by T. A.’ (London, 1852).