„Der meint‘es treu!“: Music for Fortepiano & Winds from the Biedermeier Salon

Featuring

Anders Muskens
Florencia Gómez
Elia Celegato
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Franz Schubert

Robert Schumann

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Historical Context

This album explores music from the Biedermeier period (1815-1848), a time when music became more accessible to the middle classes and was often performed in domestic settings.

Performer Biography

Anders Muskens, the fortepiano player, is a Canadian early keyboard specialist, music scholar, and ensemble director who founded Das Neue Mannheimer Orchester.

Performer Biography

Elia Celegato, the historical clarinet player, has performed Schubert's 'Great' and 'Unfinished' symphonies with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth-Century under Sir Roger Norrington.

Historical Context

During the Biedermeier period, salons emerged as central to bourgeois social life, hosting intimate gatherings for discussions, performances, and artistic exchange.

Recording & Production

The performers on this album are from Carl Theodor's Cabinet, which is the chamber music initiative of Das Neue Mannheimer Orchester, a period instrument orchestra founded by Anders Muskens.

Performer Biography

Florencia Gómez, the historical flute player, teaches the course 'Historical Development of the traverso and flute' at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.

Instruments

The album features an original square pianoforte (Tafelklavier) by Johann Gottlieb Irmler, made in Leipzig in 1823, which was a popular instrument in Biedermeier-era homes.