Viol Players - English Viol Players, French Baroque Viol Players, Carl Friedrich Abel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Oleg Timofeyev, Franti Ek Slama (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: English viol players, French Baroque viol players, Carl Friedrich Abel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Oleg Timofeyev, Franti ek Slama, Fretwork, Marin Marais, Jordi Savall, John Jenkins, William Lawes, Christopher Simpson, Shira Kammen, Paolo Pandolfo, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, August Wenzinger, Sophie Watillon, Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, Tobias Hume, Leonora Baroni, Christian Ferdinand Abel, Jaap ter Linden, Thomas Ford, John Cooper, Rose Consort of Viols, Louis de Caix d'Hervelois, Hille Perl, Le Sieur de Machy, Lorenz Duftschmid, Johannes Schenck, Fabrizio Dentice, Juan Garcia de Zespedes, Andre Maugars, Antoine Forqueray, Franz Xaver Hammer, Jonathan Manson, Thomas Brewer, Charles Dolle, Phantasm, John Hsu, Le Sieur Danoville, Jean Rousseau. Excerpt: Carl Friedrich Abel (22 December 1723 - 20 June 1787) was a German composer of the Classical era. (The Chambers Biographical Dictionary gives his year of birth erroneusly as 1725.) He was a fine player of the viola da gamba, and composed important music for that instrument. Abel was born in Kothen, the son of Christian Ferdinand Abel, the principal viola da gamba and cello player in the court orchestra of Johann Sebastian Bach. There is no proof that Abel studied at the Thomasschule Leipzig, but it was on Bach's recommendation that in 1748 he was able to join Johann Adolph Hasse's court orchestra at Dresden where he remained for ten years. In 1759 (or 1758 according to Chambers), he went to England and became chamber-musician to Queen Charlotte. He gave a concert of his own compositions in London, performing on various instruments, one of which was a five-string cello known as a pentachord, which had been recently invented by John Joseph Merlin. In 1762, Johann Christian Bach, the eleventh son of J.S. Bach, joined him in London, and the friendship between him and Abe...