Talk:Frédéric Blasius

Basics
His date of birth is often given as 1768. And his name is often "Matthieu Frédéric Blasius". See, for example, his Dutch wikipedia entry.

Is he a member of the Mannheim School? See the recording Mannheimer Schule which includes a Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in C major Composed by Matthieu-Frederic Blasius, a work included in the Dutch entry referenced above.

Other sources:
 * Blasius, Frederic-Matthieu
 * Clarinet Concertos of The Mannheim School
 * An Annotated Guide to Wind Chamber Music has a bit of good detail and recommends the liner notes for the Neidich recording, which I've ordered.

Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 22:21, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I tried to follow up with your first link, but ran out of time. And I suggest that the Pougin pages should probably be individually assigned to particular statements of fact. My French is not great, so I couldn't do this myself and need some help with it. Thanks, --Robert.Allen (talk) 17:58, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

I've worked on the Pougin. Material can stay in the notes or be incorporated into the text. My only question now is about "Elmenreich". This seems to be a troupe under an impresario by that name. Looking the German wikipedia, I find nothing for that spelling, but suggestive material under Ellmenreich, especially a singer de:Friederike Ellmenreich, who studied in Paris with Cherubini in 1801. Just wondering about the spelling. Cheers.

Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 20:20, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I checked New Grove Opera, and "Elmenreich" is the spelling there. There's no article on it there, either, and I haven't found it in the indexes to any of the books I have on opera in Paris, so far. I'll try to check some more. Robert.Allen (talk) 20:45, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

German Entführung, Paris, 1801
This link says it was the first opera ever performed in German in Paris. I found that hard to believe! Robert.Allen (talk) 21:13, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Work pub-dates
I can add this much info- publication of the first violin concerto is announced in the January 1 1798 issue of the "Journal typographique et bibliographique" (on p.95 - quick unformatted Google Link ) - from which publication in 1797-or-1798 (probably 1797) is strongly suggested at least... Schissel | Sound the Note! 04:44, 20 October 2014 (UTC) (all 4 of his clarinet concertos are listed, too, in the standard Whistling 1817 source, so were published by then, though this probably just means they were still in print at that time after the 1802-5 printings referred to in the article - Whistling Handbuch der musikalischen Litteratur 1817 volume p195)