Franz Andreas Holly

Franz Andreas Holly ( František Ondřej Holý , born November 28, 1747 in Netolice , † May 4, 1783 in Breslau ) was a Bohemian composer.

Life

Holly was believed to have been a student of the Jesuits in Prague and then possibly joined the Franciscan Order . In 1768 or 1769 he became a member of Johann Joseph von Brunian's theater troupe at the Theater an der Kotzen in Prague and succeeded the former music director Johann Baptist Savio as répétiteur . When the troupe was reorganized in April 1772, Holly became its Kapellmeister. In 1773 at the latest, he traveled to Berlin with an actor from the company, Karl Franz Henisch , who also wrote some librettos . From 1774 until his death he was the musical director of the Wäserschen traveling theater troupe in Breslau . Holly composed a number of choral plays and drama music.

Works

• The funny shoemaker , comic opera (libretto by Karl Franz Henisch after Christian Felix Weisse ), 1770
• Das Gespenst , comic opera (libretto by Karl Franz Henisch), 1771
• The Magician , comic opera (libretto by Karl Franz Henisch), 1772
• The Merchant of Smyrna , comic opera (libretto by Christian Friedrich Schwan ), 1773
• The Bassa von Tunis , comic opera (libretto by Karl Franz Henisch), 1774
• The Gardener's Girl , comic opera (libretto by Johann Karl August Musäus ), 1775
• Opportunity Makes Thieves , operetta (libretto by Karl Franz Henisch), 1775
• The Patriot in the Country (libretto by Karl Emil Schubert ), 1777
• The mix-up , comic opera, 1779–84
• The Gypsies (libretto by Heinrich Ferdinand Möller ), 1781
• Der Irrwisch , comic opera (libretto by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner ), 1782

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Holly, Franz Andreas . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 231 ( digital copy ).
• Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea world of music . Volume 3: Hauff - Menalt . Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07833-1 , pp. 124-125.