Schroe?tter, Johann Samuel. (1752 - 1788). Six Concerto pour le clavecin ou le forte piano, avec accompagnement de deux violons et basse de?de?s a? Madame la Duchesse de Lancastre...Oeuvre III.. Paris: Chez Mme lemenu et Boyer. [ca. 1779]. First Edition. Upright folio. Title; publisher's catalogue; 2 - 51 pp. Engraved throughout, no PN. Signed by the publisher l.r. titlepage. Very worn contemporary green wrappers, music with corners thumbed, a few small tears to outer edge, generally in fine condition. Rare. Three copies located by Worldcat, none in the United States.
The German pianist and composer studied in Leipzig with Johann Adam Hiller, toured in the 1760s, and settled in London in 1772, where he was given an organist position by Johann Christian Bach. He became a celebrated pianist and teacher there and following Bach's death in 1782, took over as Music Master to the Queen Charlotte. In his book on Mozart (New York, 1945, p. 296), Alfred Einstein makes it clear that he recognized Schroeter's influence on Mozart and on the development of piano music in general. In a letter to his father from Mozart in Paris dated July 3, 1778, he asks his father if the present Opus 3. concertos can be bought in Salzburg and adds that he himself wants to obtain them, for they "are very beautiful [sehr schoen]" - rare praise from Mozart's pen. Some time later, Mozart wrote cadenzas for three of the six concertos (K. 626, D, F, G, H), but regrettably, only the first of these, and only the first 17 measures of that, is available, the Cadenza for the D major Concerto Op. 3, No. 4, an incomplete autograph held by the Paris Conservatoire.
The German pianist and composer studied in Leipzig with Johann Adam Hiller, toured in the 1760s, and settled in London in 1772, where he was given an organist position by Johann Christian Bach. He became a celebrated pianist and teacher there and following Bach's death in 1782, took over as Music Master to the Queen Charlotte. In his book on Mozart (New York, 1945, p. 296), Alfred Einstein makes it clear that he recognized Schroeter's influence on Mozart and on the development of piano music in general. In a letter to his father from Mozart in Paris dated July 3, 1778, he asks his father if the present Opus 3. concertos can be bought in Salzburg and adds that he himself wants to obtain them, for they "are very beautiful [sehr schoen]" - rare praise from Mozart's pen. Some time later, Mozart wrote cadenzas for three of the six concertos (K. 626, D, F, G, H), but regrettably, only the first of these, and only the first 17 measures of that, is available, the Cadenza for the D major Concerto Op. 3, No. 4, an incomplete autograph held by the Paris Conservatoire.
Schroe?tter, Johann Samuel. (1752 - 1788). Six Concerto pour le clavecin ou le forte piano, avec accompagnement de deux violons et basse de?de?s a? Madame la Duchesse de Lancastre...Oeuvre III.. Paris: Chez Mme lemenu et Boyer. [ca. 1779]. First Edition. Upright folio. Title; publisher's catalogue; 2 - 51 pp. Engraved throughout, no PN. Signed by the publisher l.r. titlepage. Very worn contemporary green wrappers, music with corners thumbed, a few small tears to outer edge, generally in fine condition. Rare. Three copies located by Worldcat, none in the United States.
The German pianist and composer studied in Leipzig with Johann Adam Hiller, toured in the 1760s, and settled in London in 1772, where he was given an organist position by Johann Christian Bach. He became a celebrated pianist and teacher there and following Bach's death in 1782, took over as Music Master to the Queen Charlotte. In his book on Mozart (New York, 1945, p. 296), Alfred Einstein makes it clear that he recognized Schroeter's influence on Mozart and on the development of piano music in general. In a letter to his father from Mozart in Paris dated July 3, 1778, he asks his father if the present Opus 3. concertos can be bought in Salzburg and adds that he himself wants to obtain them, for they "are very beautiful [sehr schoen]" - rare praise from Mozart's pen. Some time later, Mozart wrote cadenzas for three of the six concertos (K. 626, D, F, G, H), but regrettably, only the first of these, and only the first 17 measures of that, is available, the Cadenza for the D major Concerto Op. 3, No. 4, an incomplete autograph held by the Paris Conservatoire.
The German pianist and composer studied in Leipzig with Johann Adam Hiller, toured in the 1760s, and settled in London in 1772, where he was given an organist position by Johann Christian Bach. He became a celebrated pianist and teacher there and following Bach's death in 1782, took over as Music Master to the Queen Charlotte. In his book on Mozart (New York, 1945, p. 296), Alfred Einstein makes it clear that he recognized Schroeter's influence on Mozart and on the development of piano music in general. In a letter to his father from Mozart in Paris dated July 3, 1778, he asks his father if the present Opus 3. concertos can be bought in Salzburg and adds that he himself wants to obtain them, for they "are very beautiful [sehr schoen]" - rare praise from Mozart's pen. Some time later, Mozart wrote cadenzas for three of the six concertos (K. 626, D, F, G, H), but regrettably, only the first of these, and only the first 17 measures of that, is available, the Cadenza for the D major Concerto Op. 3, No. 4, an incomplete autograph held by the Paris Conservatoire.