Adalbert Gyrowetz

Adalbert Gyrowetz, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1828

Adalbert Gyrowetz , Czech Vojtěch Matyáš Jírovec (born February 19, 1763 in Budweis , Bohemia ; † March 19, 1850 in Vienna ) was a Bohemian- Austrian composer .

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Adalbert Gyrowetz received lessons in singing and violin at an early age and in organ and figured bass during his high school years. After his studies in Prague he entered the service of Count Johann Franz von Fünfkirchen in Brno . He then visited numerous music centers in Europe at the time. In London in 1791/92 he met Joseph Haydn , whose style and harmony influenced the chamber music and symphonies he composed there. In 1793 he came to Vienna, where he was Hoftheater Kapellmeister from 1804 to 1831.

He composed numerous sacred works, operas , singspiele , ballets and over 60 symphonies , string quartets and piano sonatas . The libretto written by Felice Romani for his opera Il finto Stanislao (1818) was later reused by Giuseppe Verdi with only minor changes as the basis for his early opera buffa entitled Un giorno di regno (1840).

Eight-year-old Frédéric Chopin made his debut with one of his piano concertos .

In 1894 the Gyrowetzgasse in Vienna- Penzing (14th district) was named after him and in 2014 an asteroid : (250374) Jírovec .

literature

• Alfred Einstein (Hrsg.): CVs of German musicians told by themselves. Volume III / IV: Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763-1850). Leipzig 1915. (autobiography)
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Gyrowetz, Adalbert . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 6th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1860, pp. 62–67 ( digitized version ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Jirovec, Vojtěch . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 10th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1863, p. 186 ( digitized version ).
• Carl Ferdinand Pohl :  Gyrowetz, Adalbert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 247-249.
• Gyrowetz Adalbert. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 114.
• Othmar Wessely :  Gyrowetz, Adalbert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 363 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Adalbert Gyrowetz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Adalbert Gyrowetz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sheet music and audio files by Adalbert Gyrowetz in the International Music Score Library Project
• Opera works and manuscripts by Adalbert Gyrowetz in the DFG opera project
• Adalbert Gyrowetz at Klassika.info
• Adalbert Gyrowetz at Carus-Verlag