František Xaver Brixi (弗朗蒂舍克·布里克西) album cover

弗朗蒂舍克·布里克西 František Xaver Brixi

弗朗蒂舍克·布里克西

X·Brixi / X·F.X.布里克西

RegionCzechia

TypeSolo

ProfessionComposer

Artist Profile

波西米亚作曲家。出生于布拉格。其父西蒙·布里克西也是作曲家。早年在科斯莫诺西学习音乐,1749年离开科斯莫诺西返回布拉格,并先后在布拉格的多所教堂任职,1771年在布拉格去世。他的主要作品为宗教音乐作品,在当时广为传播。其中最著名的是他的“管风琴协奏曲”。

František Xaver Brixi (2 January 1732 – 14 October 1771) was a Czech classical composer of the 18th century. His first name is sometimes given by reference works in its Germanic form, Franz.

Brixi was born in Prague, the son of composer Šimon Brixi. He received his musical education at the Piarist Gymnasium in Kosmonosy. His teachers included Václav Kalous, a significant composer himself.

In 1749 Brixi left Kosmonosy and returned to Prague, where he worked as an organist at several churches. In 1759 he was appointed Kapellmeister of St Vitus Cathedral, thus attaining, at the age of only 27, the highest musical position in the city; this office he held till his early death. He wrote some 290 church works (of the most varied type), cantatas and oratorios, chamber compositions, and orchestral compositions. He was a prolific composer of music for the liturgy, and wrote more than 100 masses,vespers and motets, among others. He also composed secular music such as oratorios and incidental music, concertos and symphonies. His organ concertos, which have been recorded several times each, are his best-known pieces today.

Brixi was an important composer at the junction between Baroque and the Classical period. Brixi's style is distinguished from that of his contemporaries by its fresh melodic writing, vivacious rhythm and lively bass lines, and from that of his predecessors by its simple yet effective instrumentation. During his lifetime his music was widely disseminated in Bohemia and Moravia.

Brixi's music made Prague's people receptive for Mozart's music (where Mozart was in high esteem even during times where he was shunned elsewhere).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_Brixi