Anton Schweitzer
Anton Schweitzer (baptized June 6, 1735 in Coburg ; † November 23, 1787 in Gotha ) was a German composer .
Life
From around 1745 he was a choirboy in Hildburghausen , where he received musical training and later worked as a violist and cellist in the court orchestra. In 1758 his duke sent him to the Bayreuth court to study with Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht . After the dissolution of the orchestra in Hildburghausen, he was Kapellmeister of Abel Seyler's theater troupe from 1769 , with whom he was finally engaged in Weimar. After a theater fire in Weimar and the subsequent suspension of the theater in 1774, he moved to Gotha in 1775, where he succeeded Georg Anton Benda as court music director.
He was best known as an opera composer. The Libretto by Christoph Martin Wieland wrote Alceste became one of the successful works in the German musical theater of the late 18th century and inspired a number of other serious German-language operas, among them Guenther of Schwarzburg (1776) by Ignaz Holzbauer on a libretto by Anton Klein .
Works (selection)
- Elysium (Libretto: Johann Georg Jacobi , premiere January 18, 1770, Hoftheater Hannover)
- The village gala (Libretto: Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter Premiere before June 30, 1772, Hanover)
- Alceste (Libretto: Christoph Martin Wieland, premiere May 28, 1773, Hoftheater Weimar; new edition and re-performance by the Thuringia Philharmonic Gotha-Suhl in the Gotha Ekhof Theater 1999)
- The election of Hercules (Libretto: Christoph Martin Wieland, premier September 3, 1773, Hoftheater Weimar)
- Rosamunde (Libretto: Christoph Martin Wieland, WP January 20, 1780, Nationaltheater Mannheim ) - Schlosstheater Schwetzingen , May 20, 2012
Editions (selection)
- Anton Schweitzer: Rosamunde. His second German opera based on a text by Christoph Martin Wieland. ed. by Jutta Stüber, 2 volumes, ISBN 3-922626-87-4 .
literature
- Marion Brück: Schweitzer, Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 57 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ralph Braun: Coburg and Mozart . In: Stefan Nöth: Coburg 1056-2006. A journey through 950 years of city and country history . Festschrift for the 950th anniversary of the city, Coburg 2006.
- Helen Geyer: "Imagination is izt the most effective force of his soul". Emotion and modernity. Reflections on Wieland and Schweitzer's “Alceste”. In: Yearbook Standing Conference Central German Baroque Music in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia 2001 . Eisenach 2002, pp. 41-69.
- Karl Traugott Goldbach: Notes on the opera "Rosamunde" by Christoph Martin Wieland and Anton Schweitzer. In: Helen Geyer, Thomas Radecke (Ed.): Aufbrüche - Escape routes. Music in Weimar around 1800 (= series of publications by the Liszt School of Music, Vol. 3), Cologne a. a. 2003, pp. 133-151.
- Jörg Krämer: German-language music theater in the late 18th century. Typology, dramaturgy and anthropology of a popular genre. (= Studies on German Literature, Vol. 149), Tübingen 1998, pp. 202–260.
- Julius Maurer: Anton Schweitzer as a dramatic composer. (= Publications of the International Music Society, Supplements 2 F., No. 11), Leipzig 1912.
- Hans Michel Schletterer : Swiss, Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 371-373.
Web links
- Works by and about Anton Schweitzer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Anton Schweitzer in the German Digital Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Anton Schweitzer in the International Music Score Library Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schweitzer, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized June 6, 1735 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1787 |
| Place of death | Gotha |