Ludwig August Lebrun Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra No.5 in C Major - 1: Grave
Oboe: Thomas Indermuhle
Conductor.: Toomas Vavilov
Estonian Orhestra
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Ludwig August Lebrun (2 May 1752 in Mannheim 16 December 1790 in Berlin) was a German oboist and composer.
The well-known and celebrated oboe virtuoso (a contemporary described being "charmed by his divine oboe"), played with the orchestra at the court of the Prince-Elector Carl Theodor in Mannheim. He started playing with the orchestra at the age of 12 and became a full member at the age of 15. His father, also an oboist of probably Belgian origin, worked from 1747 at the Mannheim court. He was a contemporary of Carl Stamitz and Anton Stamitz, and belonged to the Mannheim school.
In the summer 1778 he married the soprano Franziska Danzi, the sister of Franz Danzi, one of the most outstanding and well-known singers of the time. With her he travelled extensively across Europe: Milan, Paris, London, Vienna, Prague, Naples, Munich and Berlin. The couple's playing and singing complemented each other perfectly and arias with obbligato oboe were written for them, as for instance those in Günther von Schwarzburg (1777) by Ignaz Holzbauer, L'Europa riconosciuta (1778) by Antonio Salieri and Castore e Polluce (1787) by Georg Joseph Vogler.
The music historian Charles Burney wrote about appearances of the pair: "Franziska Danzi and the excellent oboist Lebrun usually travel together, and it seems as though she has listened to nothing other than his instrument, for when they perform together in thirds and sixths one cannot hear which is the upper or the lower voice!"
He died at the age of 38.
Thomas Indermühle
Born in Bern in 1951, Thomas Indermühle is a scion of a Swiss family of musicians. He studied with Heinz Holliger at the Staatliche Musikhochschule im Freiburg in Breisgau, and with Maurice Bourgue in Paris. Afterwards, he spent several years as a solo oboist in the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 1974 he was awarded a prize at the International Competition in Prague, and in 1976 he won the International ARD Competition in Munich. Since then, he has appeared as a soloist in almost all European countries, in the USA, Canada, Japan, Korea and Australia.
Of great importance to him are his "Ensemble Couperin", his activity as a conductor, and his work with his students. Indermühle has been responsible for an oboe class at the Zurich Conservatory since 1984, and in 1989 he was appointed professor at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Karlsruhe. His CDs are available on Camerata, Philips, EMI, Claves and Novalis.
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