Pieter van Maldere
He was a violinist of the Royal Chapel, the court orchestra in Brussels of the governor-general of the Austrian Netherlands, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
His symphonies, exemplary for the galant style, merged French stylistic elements with Viennese and Italian influences.
From 1749 he was a violinist at the Royal Chapel, the court orchestra of the Austrian Netherlands, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
William Manwaring published the Six Trios for 2 Fiddles and thorough Bass composed by Sieur Van Maldere in Dublin in December 1752.
He accompanied Prince Charles Alexander on his many travels, to France (Paris), Bohemia (Prague) and Austria (Vienna), where his two first comic operas were performed in Schönbrunn: Le Déguisement pastoral (1756) and Les Amours champêtres (1758).
After his return to Brussels, Van Maldere composed a number of operas and over 40 symphonies, ouvertures and sonatas.
Mozart met van Maldere in Brussels during his first international tour as a child prodigy.
Van Maldere's students at the Royal Chapel included the violinist Joseph Gehot (1756 - after 1795) and the clarinettist Amand Vanderhagen (1753–1822).
The Austrian composer Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf noted him as one of the most important virtuosi of his time.
According to RISM (Répertoire International de Sources Musicales), manuscripts of his works are found in 21 libraries in ten different countries (Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States).
Only one source of van Maldere's vocal compositions has survived: his opéra-comique "Le Déguisement pastoral" (1756) is kept at the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna.
A popular vocal composition to music by van Maldere was Ach wiederholt mir Jesu Leiden, an arrangement of the Grave movement from his Symphony , Op.
A number of his works were attributed to other composers, such as Joseph Haydn (RomM 80 in B♭) and Josef Mysliviček, whose symphony in C turned out to be van Maldere's Op.
