Franz Anton Hoffmeister: Flute Concerto in D major, Ingrid Dingfelder (flute)

Franz Anton Hoffmeister – Flute Concerto in D major, Ingrid Dingfelder, flute, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
1. Allegro – 00:00
2. Adagio – 11:08
3. Allegro – 19:04

Franz Anton Hoffmeister (12 May 1754 – 9 February 1812) was a German composer and music publisher.
Franz Anton Hoffmeister was born in Rottenburg am Neckar on 12 May 1754. At the age of fourteen he went to Vienna to study law. Following his studies, however, he decided on a career in music and by the 1780s he had become one of the city’s most popular composers, with an extensive and varied catalogue of works to his credit.
Prominent in Hoffmeister’s extensive oeuvre are works for the flute, including more than 25 concertos as well as chamber works with the flute in a leading role. Many of these works would have been composed with Vienna’s growing number of amateur musicians in mind, for whom the flute was one of the most favoured instruments. Hoffmeister also composed at least eight operas, over 50 symphonies, numerous concertos (including an often-played concerto for the viola), a large amount of string chamber music, piano music and several collections of songs.
As a composer, Hoffmeister was highly respected by his contemporaries, as can be seen in the entry, published in the year of his death, in Gerber's Neues Lexikon der Tonkünstler: „If you were to take a glance at his many and varied works, then you would have to admire the diligence and the cleverness of this composer.... He earned for himself a well-deserved and wide-spread reputation through the original content of his works, which are not only rich in emotional expression but also distinguished by the interesting and suitable use of instruments and through good practicability. For this last trait we have to thank his knowledge of instruments, which is so evident that you might think that he was a virtuoso on all of the instruments for which he wrote.”
As a publisher he was a benefactor of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who eveh named one of his Quartets after his friend and publisher and wrote several compositions specifically for him.