Franz Joseph Strauss (1822-1905) - Concert für Waldhorn (1865)

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Franz Joseph Strauss! 📯🎻 Composer: Franz Joseph Strauss (1822-1905) Work: Concert (c-moll) für Waldhorn ... Op. 8 (1865) Performers: Barry Tuckwеll (1931-2020, horn); London Symphony Orchestra; István Kеrtész (1929-1973, conductor) Painting: Hans Thoma (1839-1924) - Ländliche Musikkapelle HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Franz Joseph Strauss (Parkstein, 26 February 1822 - Munich, 31 May 1905) German horn player and composer, father of Richard Strauss (1864-1949). He was the illegitimate son of the police officer Johann Urbann Strauss and of Maria Walter. He was recognised by his father. When he was only fifteen years old he became a guitar player at the Hofkapelle of Duke Maximilian. Soon he became a solo hornist at the opera orchestra and after that he was engaged as a hornist at the Royal Bavarian Court Orchestra, a post he held until his retirement in 1889. When he was 32 years old his first wife and his two children died of cholera. In 1863 he married again. His second wife was Josephine Pschorr, the daughter of the brewer Georg Pschorr. In 1864 their son Richard Strauss was born. In 1871 he became a professor at the Academy in Munich. In 1875 he was elected conductor of the amateur orchestra, the “Wilde Gung’l“, a post he held for 21 years. As a composer, he wrote a Concert für Waldhorn, Op.8 (1865), a Nocturne, Op.7 and Empfindungen am Meere for Horn and Piano , and 17 Konzertetuden and Ubungenfur Naturhorn. His musical taste was very conservative and among his most admired composers were Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Although a violent opponent of Wagner, the master valued him highly, and entrusted to him at the premieres of ’Tristan und Isolde’, ’Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg’, and ’Parsifal’.