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Among the works for two instruments, duo collections that follow a programme are especially attractive. A large number of melodies from 18th century operas and oratorios were “captured” for 2 flutes, 2 violins or 2 violoncellos, often embellished with variations or decorative passagework. Equally popular were duets that made use of contemporary songs.
Some composers would use older, tried and tested genres, which further expanded the techniques and
variability possible among equal instruments, such as the stricter fugue form combined with a programme. An exemplary and skillful example of this approach can be found in the
SIX DUOS / RELIGIEUX / Contenant des Chorals et des Fugues / POUR / DEUX
VIOLONCELLOS / composés et dediés à / Mr
M. FLEMMING / Député de la Province du
Rhin / PAR / J. J. F. DOTZAUER. / Op. 171 / No 8220 [Pl.-Nr.] / Pr. M. 2. / MAYENCE /
ANVERS ET BRUXELLES / chez les fils de B. Schott.
The works first appeared as a set of parts around 1833. The print carries few signs of articulation, and
dynamics are entirely missing. We saw little point in adding dynamics to the fugues. But for study purposes we have provided this edition with a score.
Justus Johann Dotzauer was born on 20 January 1783 in Häselrieth near Hilburghausen, the son of a
pastor. The boy’s love of music induced his father to have him taught piano by Kammermusicus Heuschkel in Hilburghausen, and violin by music director Gleichmann. The court trumpeter Hessner taught him to play the cello, and organist Rüttinger gave him lessons in composition. When the father realized that his son was “maturing” into a cellist, he sent him to the Meiningen virtuoso J.J.Kriegck, who shared with him the foremost instrumental techniques of his day.
In 1801 Dotzauer joined the Meiningen orchestra, remaining until 1805. Via Leipzig, where he helped found a string quartet, he went to Berlin in 1806, and met Bernhard Romberg, then at the height on Dotzauer was tremendous. Aged 28, in 1811 he joined the Dresden court orchestra as “Saxon chamber musician”, remaining there for 40 years. In 1821 he was made solo cellist. Besides his quartet playing, much praised by Spohr, he also cultivated the great concert repertoire, touring Germany and Holland.
Dotzauer died in Dresden on 6 March 1860. As a composer, Dotzauer’s output of over 180
works, while mainly for cello, includes almost every genre. He wrote symphonies, masses, ouvertures,
nine cello concertos, a double concerto for 2 celli, a flute concerto and chamber music which is still
viable today. Reaching from duos to quintets, these are inventive and technically brilliant pieces in which the cello often “plays the first fiddle”. His Methods and Studies are once again very popular, and show his preference for harmonics. Dotzauer’s 24 Studien zur Gewinnung und Bewahrung der Virtuosität are still unequalled. And in 1825 the master was responsible for the first edition of the cello suites of Johann Sebastian Bach!
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9790015133107
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714831
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