(100% suggested performance tempo, RA format, monaural),
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Score and parts. 28+12+4+4+3+3 pp., Bi-lingual English-French text.
Rehearsal Audio CD included (generated electronically).
(Contains 3 tracks for each of the movements, in stereo, at 60%, 80% and 100%
performance tempi respectively.
Guitar on left channel, orchestra on the right.
By using the balance control on your playback equipment, you can fade out the
guitar).
$39.95, Presser Order number 494-02510 (EICM-37)
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Allegro moderato (1.3MB) | Rondo
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Antoine
de Lhoyer was born on 6 September 1768 in Clermont-Ferrand, in the heart of
France. His family appears to have been a well-to-do famille bourgeoise.
Little is known about his childhood, but one source states that he studied music
in Paris with excellent masters. In the early autumn of 1789 he embarked upon a
military career by entering the Gardes du Corps du Roi, where he served until
the imprisonment of the Royal Family in 1791. De Lhoyer left the country at the
end of 1791 and went to Coblenz where he enlisted with the armée des
Princes, a principal counter-revolutionary unit. His enlistment with this
army lasted until the end of 1792. In the ensuing years, time and again de
Lhoyer joined military units fighting against revolutionary France: during
1794-97 he participated in the various campaigns of the Austrian army, and in
1799-1800 he was in the armée de Condé, another leading émigré
military unit. He settled as a guitarist in Hamburg in 1800 where some of his
guitar works, including the present concerto, were published. He went to Russia
sometime in early 1803; on his way he passed through Berlin where he appeared in
a concert in December 1802. He clearly obtained a prominent position at the
imperial court in St. Petersburg were he stayed until his return to France in
1812, just before Napoleon’s Russian campaign. He served in various command
positions in the French army until his forced retirement in 1830. He died on 15
March, 1852 in Paris at the age of 84.
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