Jean-Louis Adam (1758-1848): Sonata in C-Major

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World Première Recording
1) Allegro con Spiritoso: 00:00 2) Menuetto: 12:30 3) Trio: 14:08
4) Menuetto (da capo): 15:24 5) Allegro Vivace: 16:14
Jean-Louis Adam was born in the Alsace region of France, an area in which many of the inhabitants were of German origin in earlier times. Thus, his name sometimes appears in the German form: “Johann Ludwig Adam”. As a child, he learned to play the harp and the violin, and a bit later, began to study the organ in Strassburg. Yet when he was 17, he decided to dedicate himself to the piano, which he learned largely on his own. In order to do so, he diligently studied the works of J.S. and C.P.E. Bach, Händel, Scarlatti, Schobert, Clementi and Mozart. Naturally, he absorbed C.P.E. Bach’s famous “Versuch”, and in order to further learn composition, he studied the writings of Johann Mattheson, J.J. Fux and F.W. Marpurg. Also at age 17, he moved to Paris, and had soon become a protégé of Christoph Willibald Gluck. He married relatively young, but sadly, his wife died just a year later. His second marriage fell apart due to incompatibility. He was luckier the third time, though, for that marriage, contracted when he was 44 years old, did last; his son Adolphe was born a year later. Adam became a well-respected piano teacher; the composer and piano virtuoso Friedrich Kalkbrenner was one of his pupils. For his service in the area of music, Adam was made a knight of the French “Legion of Honor”. The great majority of Adam’s keyboard works are expressly for piano, yet this earlier work is designated for “Harpsichord or Piano-Forte”. Ir is quite large in scale, especially for a work composed no later than 1784 (it appeared in that year in the publication “Journal de pièces de clavecin”). Thus, Adam was in his twenties when he composed it, and for that reason, it can be considered a work of his youth, since he lived to be 89 years old.
- David Bolton, “The Digital Harpsichordist”
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