Anton Kraft
Anton Kraft (born December 30, 1752 in Rokycany , West Bohemia, † August 28, 1820 in Vienna ) was a Bohemian composer and cellist .
Life
After studying philosophy at the Charles University in Prague, Anton Kraft took cello lessons from Johann Werner and composition from Joseph Haydn . In 1778 he became the first cellist with Prince Nikolaus I Joseph Esterházy , was a musician in Prince Grassalkovich's chapel from 1791 to 1796 and with Prince Lobkowitz from 1796 to 1820 . Kraft was a founding member of the Schuppanzigh Quartet and founder of the Vienna Violoncello School. In the year of his death - 1820 - he was still a teacher at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna . He last lived in Untere Breunerstraße No. 1196, where he died on August 28, 1820 “of exhaustion”.
family
Anton Kraft was the father of the royal Württemberg court musician Nikolaus Kraft (born December 14, 1778 in Sopron , † May 18, 1852 in Eger ) and Franziska Kraft, who on May 9, 1803, took over the composer and conductor Antonio Casimir Cartellieri (1772–1807 ) married.
Works
- Violoncello concerts and chamber music for violoncello and baritone,
for example: Cello Sonata in G major op. 2 No. 2 (Moderato - Adagio - Rondo), first recording in 2008 by Jens Peter Maintz and Dávid Adorján (Berlin Classics), from “Three great sonatas for the cello with accompaniment of a bass”.
literature
- Gottfried Johannes Dlabacz: General historical artist lexicon for Bohemia and partly also for Moravia and Silesia , 1815.
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Kraft, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1865, p. 101 ( digitized version ).
- Sudetendeutscher Kulturalmanach 5, 1964, pp. 197-200.
- Antonicek: Kraft (Krafft), Anton. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 191.
- Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries , edited by Heribert Sturm on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum, Volume II, Munich 1984, p. 272.
Web links
- Works by and about Antonín Kraft in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Anton Kraft in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ CF Pohl, memorandum on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the Tonkünstler-Societät , (Vienna 1871), p. 107
- ^ Wiener Zeitung , No. 200 of September 1, 1820, p. 799
- ^ ÖBL, on Nikolaus Kraft
- ↑ Vienna, Parish St. Augustin, Tom's marriage book. VII, fol. 9.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kraft, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kraft, Antonín; Krafft, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bohemian cellist and classical composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1752 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rokycany |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1820 |
| Place of death | Vienna |