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Filtz

Anton Filtz (1733–1760) was a cellist and composer who joined the celebrated Mannheim orchestra in the early 1750s, becoming one of the younger members of the Mannheim school, the group of composers whose innovative orchestral writing transformed the European symphony in the mid-eighteenth century. The Mannheim orchestra under Elector Carl Theodor was the finest in Europe, renowned for its discipline and the dramatic effects its composers exploited, including the rapid ascending figures and sudden dynamic contrasts that became known as the Mannheim rocket and the Mannheim sigh. Filtz died at around twenty-seven, leaving a small but characteristic body of symphonies and concertos that capture the Mannheim style at its most energetic.

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