Carl Franz Stenzl

Carl Franz Stenzl (*? In Vienna ; † November 12, 1864 ibid) was an Austrian musician, conductor and theater composer.

life and work

There are hardly any reliable reports about the early life of Carl Franz Stenzl. He was musically trained and played the violin very well, so he devoted himself to a musical career and was employed as a violin player in the orchestra of the Theater an der Wien for several years . He then came to the Carltheater in Leopoldstadt as Kapellmeister , where he remained until his death after a long illness.

Stenzl was quite talented as a composer, but due to his limited imagination, over time he often only produced more stereotypical repetitions of a few melody variations. He composed, among other things, the music to Anton Langers (1824–1879) Oesterreicher in Schleswig , to Gustav von Mosers (1825–1903) Posse for love of art , to Karl Hickels (1811–1855) a juggler , to Friedrich Kaisers (1814– 1874) Antics Nothing! , Wrong Good! , Whoever laughs last laughs best and to Johann Nestroys (1801–1862) Everything wants to see the Prophet'n , A complicated story! and my friend . The setting of the minstrel song by Emanuel Geibel (1815-1884) was quite popular at the time .

In the musical compilation Flore théâtrale, published by Verlag Tobias Haslinger in Vienna . Nouvelle Collection de Fantaises élégantes ou Potpourris brillantes, sur des Thémes d'Operas modern he fav. Published his fantasies for several operas by Jacques Offenbach , such as Daphne and Chloë , Master Fortunio and his love song , Mesdames de la Halle , Une Demoiselle en loterie , Le Pont de Soupirs , Choufleuri , Tromb-al-ca-zar , Mr. and Mrs. Denis , as well as individual quadrille and other dance melodies, also based on Offenbach's works.

His last composition was the Gablenz March in 1864 for the cavalry general Ludwig Karl Wilhelm von Gablenz (1814–1874), the successful general in the German-Danish War in 1864 and later winner of the Battle of Trautenau in the German War in 1866. The occasion was the mission of the k. u. k. Styrian IR "Albert I. King of the Belgians" No. 27 in Schleswig , whose traditional march it then became.

Web links

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Stenzl, CF . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 38th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1879, p. 204 ( digitized version ).