Jiří Družecký was a Bohemia

Bohemia

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n composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, oboist

Oboe

The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" , "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...

, and timpani

Timpani

Timpani, or kettledrums, are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a skin called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper. They are played by striking the head with a specialized drum stick called a timpani stick or timpani mallet...

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He studied oboe with the noted oboist and composer Carlo Besozzi

Carlo Besozzi

-Biography:Besozzi was born in Naples, the son of the oboist and composer Antonio Besozzi . Carlo Besozzi joined his father in the Dresden court orchestra from 1754. However, the Dresden opera house was destroyed by the Prussians in the Seven Years' War , breaking up the remarkable group of...

 in Dresden

Dresden

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. He then joined the band of an infantry regiment in Eger

Cheb

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, with which he was later stationed (sequentially) in Vienna

Vienna

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, Enns

Enns

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, Linz

Linz

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, and Branau. In 1777 he was certified as a drummer. It is believed he started writing music in the 1770s, most of it for his band. He also wrote chamber music and music for orchestra, including 27 Symphonies and Concertos for various instruments. A couple of his operas survive, but one suite of incidental music and a ballet are lost. Druschetzky is credited with one of the earliest uses of the BACH motif

BACH motif

In music, the BACH motif is the motif, a succession of notes important or characteristic to a piece, B flat, A, C, B natural. In German musical nomenclature, in which the note B natural is written as H and the B flat as B, it forms Johann Sebastian Bach's family name...

. Druschetzky died in Buda

Buda

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Selected compositions

Stage

• Mechmet, Opera
• Zemira, Opera
• Perseus and Andromeda, Incidental music to the play
• Inkle and Yariko, Ballet

Orchestral

• Concerto in B major for oboe and orchestra
• Concerto in C major for oboe and orchestra
• Concerto in F major for oboe and orchestra
• Concerto for 6 timpani and orchestra
• Concerto in D major for viola and orchestra; The solo viola part is written in the key of C major requiring a scordatura
  Scordatura
  A scordatura , also called cross-tuning, is an alternative tuning used for the open strings of a string instrument, in which the notes indicated in the score would represent the finger position as if played in regular tuning, while the actual pitch is altered...
  
   tuning a whole step higher.
• Gran Sinfonia in C major
• Harmonia - for 21 wind instruments (1790)
• Partita in C major for timpani and chamber orchestra
• Partita in F major
• Sinfonia alla battaglia for string and brass orchestra
• Sinfonia in C

Chamber music

• Quartet for bassethorn, violin, viola and cello
• Quintet in F major for horn, violin, 2 violas and cello (1810)
• Sextet for 2 clarinets, 2 horns and 2 bassoons
• 6 Sonatas for solo violin and basso continuo, Op. 1 (Linz, 1783)
• String Quartet No. 1
• String Quartet No. 2
• String Quartet No. 3 in D major
• Trio for 3 bassethorns

Choral

• Missa solemnis for soloists, mixed chorus and orchestra (1804)

Discography

Some of Druschetzky's music has been recorded on the Naxos Records

Naxos Records

Naxos Records is a record label specializing in classical music. Through a number of imprints, Naxos also releases genres including Chinese music, jazz, world music, and early rock & roll. The company was founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, a German-born resident of Hong Kong.Naxos is the largest...

label, such as his Timpani Concerto on a disc titled Virtuoso Timpani Concertos. All Parthia are recorded from Aulia Label by I Fiati Italiani.