Talk:Bernhard Henrik Crusell
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[edit] new info on the horn concerto
I found some info regarding the horn concerto:
The Swedish Royal Court Orchestra employed an outstanding quartet of wind players at the beginning of the nineteenth century. They were: Carl Anton Philipp Braun (1788-1835), oboe; Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775-1838), clarinet; Johann Michael Friedrich Hirschfeld (1775-1841), horn; and Frans Preumayr (1782-1853), bassoon. All four players had duties as directors of music for various regiments. Crusell composed a horn concerto for Hirschfeld in 1813, most of which is now lost. However the first movement, in this version for solo horn and brass, has recently been discovered by the Swedish musicologist Åke Edenstrand. It was made by Frans Preumayr, Crusell's son-in-law, for the band of the Life Regiment's Dragoon Corps, of which he had been music director since 1835. The score states that it was completed on Palm Sunday morning in 1840. The soloist was probably Frans Müller (1812-1866), a precocious talent who had joined the band in 1822 at the age of ten, and became its bandmaster at the end of the 1840s. He was also a member of the Royal Orchestra from 1841 until his death.
I found this at http://www.lgbe.co.uk/sleeve_notes.htm and need to work this into the article. brian stormen 14:36, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Crusell was hardly a foreigner
Although a foreigner, he rose to a prominent position in the Swedish music world.
When Crusell was born, Finland was still part of Sweden, at least Western Finland where Uusikaupunki is located, and Finns were in Sweden perceived to be "Swedes in the eyes of God" quite a long time even after 1809, when the whole of Finland was annexed to Imperial Russia. In the minds of his contemporaries, Crusell was hardly a foreigner as a Finn in Stockholm at that time.(A passer-by from Finland) 194.100.66.100 (talk) 17:51, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
