Benedikt Kraus
Benedikt Kraus , also Benedict , Benedictus , Krauss (* 1725 in Salzburg ; † before 1813 , probably in Linz ) was an Austrian composer.
Life
Benedikt Kraus' curriculum vitae is difficult to reconstruct. He worked as Kapellmeister in various places and courts, so in Vienna , Munich , Bonn (before 1761), Basel (1761/62), Baden-Baden (1762/63?), Ottobeuren Monastery (1764-1767), Linz and Trieste . From 1785 to 1790 he was music director in Weimar for the troupe of Joseph Bellomo (1754–1833) at the court theater . This was followed by stations in Coburg and again in Linz, where he most recently “struggled with want and poverty” as a music teacher.
Franz Xaver Glöggl was his student.
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A number of Kraus' works have been preserved, including masses and other church music from the years 1764 to 1791, arias, cantatas and theater music. His major works include:
- Alceste, Phaebi et amoris beneficio rediviva. Operetta for the 1000th anniversary of the Ottobeuren monastery (1766), text: Father Augustin Bayrhammer
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The Creation (1789), text by Christian Hohnbaum , preserved in five copies in Berlin , Lübeck , Gotha , Annaberg and Rochester (New York) ; Luebeck creation was in 1793 by Johann Wilhelm Cornelius of Königslöw as part of Abendmusiken listed
- Digitized version of the Berlin manuscript, Berlin State Library
- Digitized version of the Lübeck manuscript, Lübeck City Library
- Edition: The Creation: for solos (STB), two choirs (SATB), two flutes, two oboes, two bassoons, two clarinets, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, bass drum, two violins, viola, cello, basso continuo. Beeskow: Ortus 2017 ISMN 979-0-502340-43-8 (search in DNB portal)
- The pilgrim on Calvary
- Cupid's coincidences
- A ridiculously sad opera. Titled: Orpheus, and Euridice. Text: Joseph Weidmann (approx. 1790): Textbook digitized , Austrian National Library
literature
- Carl Hohnbaum : Biographical Message. In: General musical newspaper . 20 (1818), Sp 276 -278 (obituary)
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Krauss, Benedict . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1865, p. 157 ( digitized version ).
- Georg Feder: A “creation” before Haydn. In: Jürgen Heidrich, Hans Joachim Marx, Ulrich Konrad (eds.): Musical sources, sources on music history: Festschrift for Martin Staehelin on his 65th birthday. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2002 ISBN 9783525278208 , pp. 329-344
Web links
- Benedikt Kraus in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO) (with further references)
Individual evidence
- ↑ After Feder (Lit.), pp. 331f
- ↑ Ernst Ludwig Gerber 1814, quoted from Feder (Lit.), p. 331
- ^ Augustin Bayrhammer , entry in the literature portal Bavaria
- ↑ Not Hochbaum
- ↑ Description in Feder (Lit.), pp. 333f
- ↑ Sacred singing poems, performed in the usual evening music of the city of Lübeck in the main church of St. Marien in 1793 for edification. Digitized
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kraus, Benedict |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Benedict, Benedict; Benedictus, Benedict; Krauss, Benedict |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1725 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | before 1813 |
| Place of death | Linz |