# Franz Clement > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Franz_Clement > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Franz_Clement.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Clement > Source revision: 1344433545 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Austrian musician}} '''Franz Joseph Clement''' (November 17, 1780 – November 3, 1842),{{cite web|url=http://errol.oclc.org/laf/no2005064116.html|title=LAF based on New Grove 2nd Ed.|accessdate=2011-03-27}} was an Austrian violinist, pianist, composer, conductor of Vienna's [Theater an der Wien](/source/Theater_an_der_Wien), and a friend of [Ludwig van Beethoven](/source/Ludwig_van_Beethoven). ==Life and career== A talented violinist from a young age, he was known for his extraordinary ability to play complex pieces from memory after only briefly viewing them. He would alternate his virtuoso performances with lighthearted showmanship, with such intermission antics as playing a sonata on one string with the violin upside-down.Bathia Churgin, ''Transcendent Mastery: Studies in the Music of Beethoven'', 3. A critic in 1805 described his unique style as follows: "His is not the marked, bold, strong playing, the moving, forceful [Adagio](/source/Tempo), the powerful bow and tone which characterise the [Rode](/source/Pierre_Rode)-[Viotti](/source/Giovanni_Battista_Viotti) School; rather, his playing is indescribably delicate, neat and elegant; it has an extremely delightful tenderness and cleanness that undoubtedly secures him a place among the most perfect violinists. At the same time, he has a wholly individual lightness, which makes it seem as if he merely toys with the most incredible difficulties, and a sureness that never deserts him for a moment, even in the most daring passages."{{cite web | url=http://classical.rachelbartonpine.com/rec_notes.php?id=14 | title=The Violin Concertos of Franz Clement and Ludwig van Beethoven | work=RachelBartonPine.Com | accessdate=2008-10-02 | last=Brown | first=Clive | year=2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715142456/http://classical.rachelbartonpine.com/rec_notes.php?id=14 | archive-date=2011-07-15 | url-status=dead }} Beethoven became acquainted with Clement in 1794 when he attended a performance in Vienna by the prodigy, then just 14. It was at the [Theater an der Wien](/source/Theater_an_der_Wien)'s benefit concert of April 7, 1805 that Beethoven first publicly conducted his [Eroica symphony](/source/Symphony_No._3_(Beethoven)). At the same performance, Clement premiered his own violin concerto in D Major, one of Clement's six known violin concertos. Clement went on to commission Beethoven's [Violin Concerto in D major](/source/Violin_Concerto_(Beethoven)) from his friend for the next benefit concert, given on December 23, 1806. It is said that Beethoven worked on it up until shortly before the performance, and that Clement played the piece without rehearsing. His works include, besides a number of compositions for violin and piano or orchestra, an [offertorium](/source/proper_(liturgy)) "Ave, o rosa mistica"[http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AL00557138 Austrian National Library] published in 1848.See [http://hofmeister.rhul.ac.uk/2008/content/monatshefte/1841_05.html#hofm_1841_05_0075_03 HMB]. Publication was by Diabelli- the "Ebend" in the line linked to means "same as the line above". ==Recordings== * '''Violin Concerto in D major''' by Franz Clement. Paired with the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, by Ludwig van Beethoven. [Rachel Barton Pine](/source/Rachel_Barton_Pine) (violin), [José Serebrier](/source/Jos%C3%A9_Serebrier) (conductor), [Royal Philharmonic Orchestra](/source/Royal_Philharmonic_Orchestra). [Cedille Records](/source/Cedille_Records): CDR 90000 106 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160310202141/http://classical.rachelbartonpine.com/rec_cd.php?id=14 info]) *'''Violin Concertos Nos. 1 – 2'''. Mirijam Contzen (Violin), WDR Symfonieorchester, Reinhard Goebel (conductor). Sony Masterworks, 2019. *'''Variations for Solo Violin on Gretry's opera "Barbe Bleu"'''. Aaron Shorr (piano), [Peter Sheppard Skærved](/source/Peter_Sheppard_Sk%C3%A6rved) (violin) Beethoven Explored Vol 3 MSV 72005 ==References== {{reflist}} ==Sources== *[http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/beethoven_violin_con.html Short bio by Betsy Schwarm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001211613/http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/beethoven_violin_con.html |date=2006-10-01 }} *{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005181625/http://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/PDF/ProgramNotes/PN_0708/CSO4_0708.pdf |date=October 5, 2007 |title=Discussion of the origins of Beethoven's concerto by Jonathan Kramer }} (See final page.) ==External links== *{{IMSLP|id=Clement, Franz}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Clement, Franz}} Category:1780 births Category:1842 deaths Category:Composers from the Austrian Empire Category:Conductors (music) from the Austrian Empire Category:Austrian classical pianists Category:Austrian classical violinists Category:Romantic composers Category:Pianists from the Austrian Empire Category:Violinists from the Austrian Empire {{Austria-composer-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Franz Clement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Clement) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Clement?action=history)). 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