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35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
Royal Northern College of Music
Anton Eberl, Two Quintets: Grand Quintetto for Clarinet or Violin, Violas, Violoncello, and Piano, Op. 41; Quintuor Brillant for Oboe, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Piano, Op. 48 (ed. Martin Harlow) Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era C91 Madison, WN: A-R Editions, 2013
The publication constitutes the first modern scholarly edition of chamber music by the native Viennese composer Anton Franz Josef Eberl (1765-1807), an important but relatively little-known composer who in his day received critical approbation matching that given to the triumvirate of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Two central works, for mixed media with piano, reveal Eberl as an innovative pioneer in chamber music sonority. Reportedly a pupil of Mozart, Eberl’s pieces develop his teacher’s interest in unica, works without generic archetypes, revealing a complex inter- and intra-generic play. The editions respond to the rigorous scholarly requirements and apparatus of the A-R Edition’s ‘Recent Researches’ series, and deploy all existing primary source materials. They are designed for use by performers, and include detailed performance notes elucidating contemporaneous notational meanings and other matters of historical performance practice, and referencing a myriad of contemporary theoretical sources.
