Aapo Häkkinen, the conductor and fortepiano player on this album, won second prize at the Bruges Harpsichord Competition in 1998 and received the NDR special prize for his Italian music interpretations.
Compositional Technique
Dussek's symphonies display characteristics of the mid-eighteenth-century Viennese symphony, reflecting his training and Vienna's cultural influence.
Composer Biography
Franz Xaver Dussek, a Bohemian composer, pianist, and teacher, spent the latter part of his career in Prague.
Historical Context
The middle decades of the eighteenth century saw enormous economic vitality in the Habsburg dominions, with wealthy aristocratic families maintaining musical establishments and commissioning new orchestral music.
Compositional Technique
Dussek's symphonies show a preoccupation with musical unity, incorporating earlier motivic material into later themes, similar to composer Ordonez.
Performer Biography
The Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, founded in 1997, offers early music performances, including modern premieres of unpublished works and new interpretations of familiar pieces.
Composer Biography
Dussek studied with Georg Christoph Wagenseil, a harpsichord virtuoso and court composer in Vienna, who also taught Leopold Hofmann and Joseph Anton Steffan.
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