Andreas Lidl

Andreas Lidl , also Andreas Liedl , Andreas Lidel and Andreas Liedel (* around 1740 in Vienna , † around 1789 probably in London ) was an Austrian composer and baryton player .

Life

After his training, presumably also with Joseph Haydn , he only worked in Passau from 1762 to 1769 . He was then cellist until 1774 and later Kapellmeister of the Esterházy family's court orchestra . His contemporaries like Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart and Charles Burney considered him to be an extremely virtuoso baryton player . He increased the number of resonance sides of his instruments to up to 27 brass strings. After the court orchestra was closed, he could be heard as a traveling virtuoso in Paris in 1775 , in Augsburg in 1776 , in Berlin in 1784 and in London in 1777 . There he settled down to work as a freelance musician. He mainly wrote chamber music works in the style of Viennese classical music, some of which can also be performed well by amateur players.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Lidl, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 15th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1866, p. 93 ( digitized version ). (wrong there as Anton )
• Christian Fastl: Lidl (Liedel), Andreas (not: Anton). In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .

Web links

• Andreas Lidl in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Sheet music and audio files by Andreas Lidl in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Lidl on prestoclassical.co.uk, accessed on March 29, 2017 (English)
2. ^ Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart: Ideas for an Aesthetics of Tonkunst. Vienna 1806.
3. ↑ Hans Josef Irmen: Joseph Haydn: Life and Work. Böhlau, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-20020-6 , p. 129.