Christian Cannabich

Johann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich (28 December 1731 (bapt.) – 20 January 1798),^[1] was a German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister of the Classical era. A composer of some 200 works, he continued the legacy of Johann Stamitz and helped turn the Mannheim orchestra into what Charles Burney described as "the most complete and best disciplined in Europe.".^[2] The orchestra was particularly noted for the carefully graduated crescendos and diminuendos characteristic of the Mannheim school.^[3] Together with Stamitz and the other composers of the Mannheim court, he helped develop the orchestral texture that paved the way for the orchestral treatment of the First Viennese School.

^ Greene, David Mason (2007). Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6. Retrieved December 7, 2011.
^ "At the court of Mannheim, about the year 1759, the band of the Elector Palatine was regarded as the most complete and best disciplined in Europe." (Burney 1957), p. 945
^ (Slonimsky 1958), p. 248

[1] Greene, David Mason (2007). Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6. Retrieved December 7, 2011.

[2] "At the court of Mannheim, about the year 1759, the band of the Elector Palatine was regarded as the most complete and best disciplined in Europe." (Burney 1957), p. 945

[3] (Slonimsky 1958), p. 248

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