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, o