Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma

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František Ignác Antonín Tůma (2 October 1704, Kostelec nad Orlicí, Bohemia – 30 January 1774, Vienna) was a Czech composer of the Baroque era. He lived the greater part of his life in Vienna, first as director of music for Franz Joseph, Count Kinsky, later filling a similar office for the widow of Emperor Charles VI. He was an important late-baroque composer, organist, gambist and theorbist. Tůma received his early musical training from his father, parish organist at Kostelec, and probably studied at the Clementinum, an important Jesuit seminary in Prague. He likely sang as a tenor chorister under B. M. Černohorský (an important composer and organist) at the Minorite Church of St. James the Great, and he is believed to have received musical instruction from him. Tůma then went to Vienna, where he was active as a church musician; according to Marpurg he became a vice-Kapellmeister at Vienna in 1722. Tůma's name first appears in Viennese records in April 1729, when the birth of a son was recorded. In 1731 he became Compositor und Capellen-Meister to Count Franz Ferdinand Kinsky, who was the High Chancellor of Bohemia. Kinsky's patronage made it possible for him to study counterpoint with Johann Fux in Vienna. He participated in the premiere of Fux's opera Constanza e Fortezza along with Georg Benda and Sylvius Leopold Weiss. In 1734, Kinsky recommended Tůma for the post of the Kapellmeister to Prague Cathedral, but his recommendation arrived too late and Tůma may have remain

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Zelenka: Die Responsorien - Tuma: Sonatas & Sinfonia

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Tuma: Partita for Orchestra, Sinfonia in B flat major, Dance Suite in A major

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Musici da camera. Music from eighteenth century Prague

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The Trumpet in Vienna

Prague Chamber Orchestra plays

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Rafael Kubelik and Old Czech Masters

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Sacred Music Around 1750

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Michna: Czech Paschale Music - Zach: Motetto in D minore de Passione Christi - Tůma: Stabat Mater

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Tuma / Myslivecek / Kozeluh: Czech Music of the Early Classical Period

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Miners ´ Choir Kladno

Cantate ad alto solo

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Partite, sonate e sinfonie - Concerto Italiano - Rinaldo Alessandrini

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