Symphonies Op. 3, Nos. 1-4 (2010)

"Details of Beck’s life remain pretty sketchy. He was born in Mannheim in 1734, studied with the leader of the so-called Mannheim School, Johann Stamitz, and had to flee the city when he was framed by a jealous court rival who had feigned death in a duel with Beck. He then spent some time in Venice, where he is said to have studied with Galuppi, before eloping with the daughter of his patron to Naples. In the late 1750s he turned up in Marseilles and spent the rest of his life in France, dying in Bordeaux in 1809. The New Oxford History of Music (OUP: 1973) describes Beck as “a Romantic born a generation too early”, largely on the strength of his four symphonies in the minor, composed, like all his symphonies, in the late 1750s and early 1760s. " (gramophone.com)

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