• Name: Antoine Reicha
• Birthday: 02/26/1770
• Birth Place: Prague, Czech Republic
• Died: 05/28/1836
• Place of Death: Paris, France
• Period: Classical
• Genre: Classical

Title	Release
(7) Andantes (2) and Adagio, for English horn, flute, clarinet, horn & bassoon	1987
Commemoration Symphony, for band	1992
Concerto for clarinet & orchestra in G minor	2001
Der neue Psalm, cantata for soloists, chorus & orchestra	1988
(2) Flute Quartet in D major, Op. 12
Flute Quartet in G major, Op. 19
Fugue for organ in A major W	1973
(4) Fugues (36) for piano, Op. 36	1991
(2) Grand quatuor concertant for flute/violin, cello, bassoon/cello & piano in E flat major, Op. 104	1995
Grand solo, for glass harmonica & orchestra W
(2) Grand trio in G major	1994
Harmonique imitée ou 3 adagios, for 4 flutes, Op. 18
Introduction and Rondo, for horn & orchestra in F major	2001
Introduction and Variations on a theme of Dittersdorf, for clarinet & orchestra in B flat major	2001
L'Art de varier, for piano, Op. 57	1999
(2) Lenore, musical tableau for vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra	1986
(3) Octet for string quartet & winds in E flat major, Op. 96	1988
Overture in D major (5/8)	1995
Piano Quintet in C minor	2002
Quartet for 4 flutes, Op. 27
(6) Quartets (6) for flute & strings, Op. 98
Quintet for bassoon & string quartet
(3) Quintet for bassoon & string quartet in B flat major	1974
Quintet for cello & string quartet No. 1 in A major W	1992
Quintet for cello & string quartet No. 2 in F major W	1992
Quintet for cello & string quartet No. 3 in E major W	1992
(9) Quintet for clarinet & string quartet in B flat major, Op. 89
Quintet for flute & string quartet in A major, Op. 105	1993
(3) Quintet for horn & strings in E major, Op. 106	1994
(4) Quintet for oboe/clarinet & strings in F major, Op. 107	1994
(2) Requiem for soloists, chorus & orchestra	1988
Romances (3)
Romances (3) for 2 flutes, Op. 21
Sinfonia concertante, for flute, violiin & orchestra in G major	1995
Sonata for bassoon & piano in B major	1990
(3) Sonata for flute & piano in D major, Op. 103	1999
(2) Sonata for flute & piano in G major, Op. 54	1999
Sonata in E flat major, Op. 43	1995
(3) Symphony in C minor	1990
Symphony in D major
(5) Symphony in E flat major, Op. 41
Symphony in F major
Te Deum for soloists, chorus & orchestra with organ	1970
Theme and variations, for bassoon & orchestra in G major	2001
Trio for 3 cellos in E flat major	2002
Trio for piano & strings in C Major, Op. 101/3	1994
Trio for piano & strings in D Minor, Op. 101/2	1994
Trio for piano & strings in E-flat major, Op.101/1	1994
Trios (12) for horn & cello, Op. 93	1988
(4) Trios (24) for 3 horns, Op. 82

Antoine Reicha was a French composer and theorist whose career spanned the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While his music for woodwind quintet is well known, he was also an opera composer and the author of several important texts on music theory. In terms of his place historically, Reicha was not only a contemporary of Beethoven, but also the one-time teacher of Berlioz and Liszt.

Reicha's earliest training was with his uncle Josef Reicha, and he later studied music in Bonn and Hamburg. When he moved to Vienna in 1801, Reicha studied with Albrechtsberger and also made the acquaintance of the elderly Joseph Haydn and other important members of the musical community in that city. While in Vienna, Reicha composed a number of fugues for the keyboard and a large amount of chamber music . It was only when Reicha moved to Paris in 1808 that he worked on music of a larger scale. Here he attempted to establish himself as a composer of opera . Of his three surviving completed operas, though, only one achieved any degree of success. That opera , Sappho, was written in 1822.

Nevertheless, by that time Reicha had a reputation as an excellent teacher of composition, and in this capacity he was respected by most of the musicians of his day. His treatise on composition (-Cours de composition musicale [1818]) became a standard text in the nineteenth century, and his -Traité de haute composition musicale (1826) was one of the most important works of its kind in the nineteenth century. Reicha's -Art du compositeur dramatique (1833) is a manual for composers of opera and is important for its insights into the approach to the form.

Reicha's musical style is relatively conservative and formal. His chamber music , for which he is best known, was written in the second decade of the nineteenth century. It sounds, however, more like eighteenth century music. Nevertheless, the works are strong melodically and quite competent in structure. ~ James Zychowicz, All Music Guide