Franciszek Lessel
Franciszek Lessel (1780 – 26 December 1838) was a Polish composer.
Life
Lessel was born in Puławy, Poland. His father, Wincenty Ferdynand Lessel, was a pianist and composer of Czech origin who served as his first teacher.
In 1799 Franciszek Lessel went to study with Joseph Haydn and continued to do so until Haydn's death.
Lessel worked as a court musician, headed Warsaw's Amateur Music Society, and gave lessons on how to play the glass harmonica. In later life he largely had non-musical administrative and inspector jobs.[1] He died in Piotrków Trybunalski.
His Grand Trio for Clarinet, Horn, and Piano, Op. 4 (1806) is notable for its contribution to this ensemble instrumentation. Among his most noted pieces is his Fantaisie in E minor, Op.13,[2] which was dedicated to Cecylia Beydale . Beydale and Lessel wanted to marry but the difference in their social standing and Lessel’s financial troubles made that impossible.
His piano concerto in C major (opus 14, published c.1814)[3] has been recorded twice, once on Harmonia Mundi France in 1993[4] and more recently on a disc released in 2011.[5]
Web sources
- ^ Polish culture site
- ^ the 2nd of his two fantasias for piano; his first, in C major Op.8, dedicated to Muzio Clementi, was published in c.1811 (contemporary review)
- ^ see OCLC 66202307.
- ^ see e.g. OCLC 29239277
- ^ see e.g. OCLC 777374642 - pianist Howard Shelley.
External links
- Scores by Franciszek Lessel in digital library Polona
- Free scores by Franciszek Lessel at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Composers with IMSLP links
- Articles with International Music Score Library Project links
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BNE identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with ICCU identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with NSK identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with PLWABN identifiers
- Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- Articles with RISM identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- Polish classical composers
- Polish male classical composers
- Polish classical pianists
- Polish male classical pianists
- Pupils of Joseph Haydn
- 1780 births
- 1838 deaths
- 19th-century classical pianists
- 19th-century male musicians
- All stub articles
- Polish composer stubs