Andrea Luchesi

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Andrea Luchesi grew up in his native town, receiving musical and general education from his elder brother, a priest, public tutor and Organist .

At the age of 15 he moved to or Cembalo ", instrumental, Sacred and Theatre music. He composed for official celebrations, the last one (1771) being the solemn funeral of the Duke of Montealegre, Spanish Ambassador to Venice. As a famous Virtuoso he was invited to play organ in and outside Venice, e.g. was in charge of inaugurating the new organ of the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua .

His knowledge of Musical Theory was enhanced by the didactic and artistic relationship he had (until his departure from Venice) with two of the most advanced theorists of that time, ''Padre'' Francesco Antonio Vallotti (a Franciscan , encoder of the Theory of Dissonance ) and count Giordano Riccati (a Mathematician , Acoustics Physicist , Architect , author of an essay on the laws of Counterpoint ).¹

In the spring of 1765 his Opera ''L'isola della fortuna'' was performed at the Hoftheater in Vienna .

While on tour in Italy in 1771, Leopold and Wolfgang Mozart met Andrea Luchesi and received one of his Concertos for cembalo.

At the end of 1771, he traveled to Bonn , invited by the Prince Elector Archbishop Of Cologne Maximilian Friederich who wished to raise the quality level of his Court chapel. After the death of the previous Kapellmeister (Ludwig van Beethoven senior, i.e. the grandfather of Beethoven), Andrea Luchesi was nominated official court Kapellmeister in 1774.

He acquired the Invasion troops suppressed the court.

Disputably, the young Beethoven , at the court chapel from 1781 to 1792 as assistant organist, cembalo and Viola player, was Luchesi's most talented (and famous) pupil, although Beethoven himself never acknowledged Luchesi as his teacher. When the court organist Christian Gottlob Neefe temporarily replaced the Kapellmeister as Conductor and teacher during his 1783-84 absence, Luchesi assigned the organ service to the very young Beethoven.
Antonin Reicha , Bernhard and Andreas Romberg , Ferdinand Ries are other pupils who achieved minor renown.

¹ G.Taboga, Episteme No. 4, September 2001

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