Matthias Georg Monn (sometimes Mann) (April 9, 1717, Vienna - October 3, 1750, Vienna) was an Austrian composer, organist and music teacher. April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... // Events January 4 — The Netherlands, Britain & France sign Triple Alliance February 26-March 6 What is now the northeastern United States was paralyzed by a series of blizzards that buried the region. ... Inhabitants according to official census figures: 1800 to 2005 Vienna in 1858 UN complex in Vienna, with the non-affiliated Austria Center Vienna in front - picture taken from Danube Tower in nearby Danube Park. ... October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events March 2 - Small earthquake in London, England April 4 - Small earthquake in Warrington, England August 23 - Small earthquake in Spalding, England September 30 - Small earthquake in Northampton, England November 16 – Westminster Bridge officially opened Jonas Hanway is the first Englishman to use an umbrella James Gray reveals her sex... A composer is a person who writes music. ... An organist is a musician who plays the organ, whether pipe or electronic. ...

Together with Georg Christoph Wagenseil and Josef Starzer, Monn formed the Viennese Pre-Classical movement (Wiener Vorklassik in German), whose composers are nowadays mostly known only by their names. However, his successful introduction of the secondary theme in the symphony was an important condition for the First Viennese School that would come some fifty years later. Georg Christoph Wagenseil (January 29, 1715 – March 1, 1777) was an Austrian composer. ... Theme may refer to: Theme (music), the initial or primary melody Theme music, in film and television, a melody closely associated with the program Theme (literature), is the unifying subject of the story Theme (computer), a custom graphical appearance for certain software, similar to a skin Thema, in the Byzantine... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The First Viennese School is a name sometimes given to a group of classical music composers who wrote in the classical music era in the late eighteenth century in Vienna. ...

Life

We know much less about Monn's life than about his musical ideas. Only his appointments as an organist are known, at first in Klosterneuburg near Vienna. Afterwards, he was appointed in the same function in Melk in Lower Austria and at the Karlskirche on the edge of the city center of Vienna. Monn died when he was only 33 years old. Klosterneuburg is a city in Lower Austria with a population of 24,442. ... Melk seen from the abbey Stift Melk Melk (older spelling: Mölk) is a city of Austria, in the federal state of Lower Austria, next to the Wachau valley along the Danube. ... Map of Lower Austria showing districts and the four quarters (Waldviertel in green, Weinviertel in red, Mostviertel in yellow and Industrieviertel in blue) Lower Austria (de: Niederösterreich) is one of the nine states or Bundesländer in Austria. ... Façade of the Karlskirche The Karlskirche, or Charles Church, was commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in 1715 after Vienna was delivered from a plague epidemic in 1713. ...

From Rococo to the Classical period

Together with Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715-1777) and other contemporaries such as Leopold Mozart (1719-1787), Monn forms a school of Austrian composers who had thorougly studied the principles of counterpoint as practised by Johann Sebastian Bach and Johann Joseph Fux, but also forced the change from the rigid and pompous Rococo style to the looser, graceful Galante music. Moreover, they renewed the sonata form by expanding the concepts of secondary theme and development. Later on, Michael and Joseph Haydn would develop these concepts to a highpoint. North side of the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo - carriage courtyard: all the stucco details sparkled with gold until 1773, when Catherine II had gilding replaced with olive drab paint. ... The Classical period in Western music occurred in a large part of the 18th century, and into the early 19th century. ... Johann Georg Leopold Mozart Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a composer, music teacher and violinist. ... Counterpoint is a broad organisational feature of much music, involving the simultaneous sounding of separate musical lines. ... Bach redirects here. ... Johann Joseph Fux (1660 – February 13, 1741) was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era. ... A new style of European classical music, fashionable from the 1720s to the 1770s, was called Galante music. ... Sonata form is a musical form that has been used widely since the early Classical period. ... Musical development is the transformation and restatement of initial material, often contrasted with musical variation, with which it may be difficult to distinguish as a general process. ... Michael Haydn Johann Michael Haydn (September 14, 1737 – August 10, 1806) was an Austrian composer, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn. ... Franz Joseph Haydn[1] (March 31 or April 1, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was one of the most prominent composers of the Classical period, called the Father of the Symphony and Father of the String Quartet. A life-long resident of Austria, Haydn spent most of his career as a...

The oeuvre of Matthias Monn contains sixteen symphonies, a score of quartets, sonatas, masses and compositions for violin and keyboard. Even today, he is one of the most famous representatives of the Pre-Classical movement. Opus, from the Latin word opus meaning work, is usually used in the sense of a work of art. Some composers musical pieces are identified by opus numbers which generally run either in order of composition or in order of publication. ... A quartet is a group of four identical or similar objects, or a grouping of four persons for a common purpose. ... The Mass, a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the fixed portions of the Eucharistic liturgy (principally that of the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, generally known in the US as the Episcopal Church, and also the Lutheran Church) to music. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ...

List of works

• Symphony in G major
• Symphony in B major
• Symphony in F major
• Quartet in B major
• Keyboard concerto in D major
• Harpsichord concerto in G minor
• Cello concerto in G minor
• Sonata in G minor

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External links

All these links are in German.

• Matthias Georg Monn in der aeiou-Enzyklopädie
• Komponisten-ABC
• Cello-Konzert mit dem Freiburger Barockorchester
• M.G. Monn, Sinfonien und Konzerte
• Hörprobe aus Monn's Sinfonie in G