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Franz Alexander Pössinger belongs among those important composers and practising musicians who worked alongside the classical composers; equally active and influential in musical life, highly esteemed by their contemporaries. On examining their work after the critical span of more than one and a half centuries, one is surprised at the high standard of much of it; indeed, it is of timeless interest. Pössinger was born on the 16th of December 1766 in Vienna. Johann Georg Albrechtsberger was his teacher. In 1786 he became a member of the Hoftheaterorchester in Vienna; in 1798 he also joined the Imperial Court orchestra as violinist and violist, a post he kept until his drath on 19th August 1827. Besides ouvertures and interlude music, a melodrama, concertos for flute, violin and oboe, as well as smaller vocal works both sacred and profane, Pössinger's main output was chamber music. Many of these works were published, from 1800 onwards, by the leading publishers in Vienna. His chamber music arrangements of the popular contemporary operas were also much apprediated. The fact that Pössinger was asked in 1803 by the police headquarters to act as an expert witness in the quarrel between Beethoven and the editor Artaria is a further proof of his prestige in Vienna. His 'Quintuor / pour / deux Violons, deux Altos, et Violoncelle, / composé par / François Alexander Pössinger. / Oeuvre III. / N. 1 (2, 3) / 31, 85, 90 [Pl.-Nr.] f36xr./ A Vienne au Bureau d'Arts d'Industrie'. so the title of the 1802 first edition, are certainly among the important works of this genre. Every violinist, viola and cello player who shall want to share the editor's enthusiasm for these Quintets will doubtless wonder why their rediscovery took so long. While it is a fact that much almost forgotten, though eminent music is supplanted by often third-rate pieces by 'better known' masters for the same genre, one must guard against this. For an assessment of Pössinger's 3 Duos for violin and viola, published in the same year, we quote the praise by the critic of the 'Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung' of 3. 2. 1808: ' ... Despite the perfect naturalness of their ideas and modulations, their avoidance of mannerisms and unnecessary difficulty, they are rich, varied and attractive. There are no meaningless solo passages rattled off by one instrument, then repeated by the other. Each instrument goes his own way by linking up with the other. Every single movement is (often to our regret) short and terse and each keeps to its particular character. With such works Hr. P. will surely earn for himself the gratitude of many amateurs.'
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