Franz Aspelmayr

Franz Aspelmayr (also: Aspelmeyr, Aspelmayer, Asplmayr, Appelmeyer ) (born April 2, 1728 in Linz , † July 29, 1786 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer .

Life

The son of the dance master Johann Aspelmayer, received his first violin lessons from his father. In 1759 he got a job as a secretary and violinist in the court orchestra of Count Karl von Morzin, with Joseph Haydn as conductor . After the Morzin chapel was closed, Aspelmayr took over the position of ballet composer at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna between 1761 and 1763 as the successor to Christoph Willibald Gluck , which was then passed on to Florian Leopold Gassmann . After 1763 Aspelmayr remained connected to the theater as a violinist and composed other ballet music, partly in collaboration with the French dancer and choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre and his successor Gasparo Angiolini .

In the Viennese musical life of his time, he played a role as the creator of divertimenti , melodramas , ballets and singspiele .

Works

• Pygmalion, melodrama (lost), 1772
• The children of nature, Singspiel, 1780, text by Leopold Alois Hoffmann
• The Storm, Singspiel, 1782
• a series of ballets
• approx. 40 symphonies
• five divertimenti
• a violin concerto
• six serenades
• approx. 60 trios for 2 violins and bass, including Six Trios modern op.1, Paris, 1761 and Six Trios op.5 (Paris, 1765)
• 42 string quartets, including the Six Quatuors concertants op.2 (Paris, 1769)
• three violin sonatas
• Numerous minuets and other dances

Web links

• Works by Franz Aspelmayr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Erich Valentin:  Aspelmayer, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 417 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Sheet music and audio files by Franz Aspelmayr in the International Music Score Library Project
• Don Michael Randel: The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. 2001 ( online in Google Book Search)