Franz Jakob Freystädtler

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Franz Jakob Freystädtler , also Freystädter or Freystadler (born September 13, 1761 in Salzburg , † December 1, 1841 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer and piano teacher. He was a student of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .

Life

Plaque for Franz Jakob Freystädtler in Salzburg, Goldgasse 14

Franz Jakob Freystädtler was a son of Johann Jacob Freystädtler (* approx. 1720 in Eichstätt ; † July 4, 1787 in Salzburg), who was the parish choir regent and " death singer " at St. Sebastian in Salzburg. After serving as a choirboy in the Princely Kapellhaus, he took organ lessons from Michael Haydn's father-in-law Franz Ignaz Lipp and was accepted into the St. Peter 's Chapel in 1777 , where he worked as an organist until September 1782 . Then he went to Munich as a piano teacher , where he got into debt, as in Salzburg, and was briefly in prison.

On May 13, 1786 he came to Vienna, where he took lessons in strict sentence from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. When he was arrested for 14 days in autumn 1786 because a Bavarian military had accused him of stealing a piano, Mozart came to his aid and enabled Freystädtler to be released from prison by means of a written declaration of liability, which he did in April 1787 withdrew again. Freystädtler's study book (today in the Mozarteum Salzburg ) was kept by Leopold Mozart for the teaching material of Mozart until 1961 , an error based on Freystädtler himself, which only Wolfgang Plath got rid of. Mozart employed his pupil as a copyist . Freystädtler made a copy of the Piano Concerto No. 18 in B flat major K. 456 and replaced six pages of the autograph of the string quintet in G minor K. 516. In the summer of 1787 he became the title hero of Mozart's draft of a farce, Der Salzburgerlump in Vienna (K. 509b ), to which the canon Dear Freystädtler, dear Gaulimauli (KV 509a) belongs. Freystädtler was still active as a piano teacher in 1834 and moved to a Viennese supply house in April 1837 , where he died in complete poverty in 1841. His fortepianoschool , announced for publication in 1830 , never appeared.

Works

Freystädtler's compositions include sonatas and cycles of variations (a variation for Anton Diabelli's “ Vaterländischen Künstlerverein ” 1820), programmatic piano fantasies of amusing banality, two easy piano concertos (a quattro), songs in a popular, simple tone and two cantatas .

In 1792 he arranged Mozart's last three string quartets for piano trio (with viola ). An arrangement of the piano quintet in E flat major KV 452 for piano quartet from 1786 ascribed to him by Otto Erich Deutsch and Cecil B. Oldman in 1931 must be regarded as a mystification .

Leopold Nowak's theory that Freystädtler was involved in completing the orchestral parts in the Kyrie of Mozart's Requiem KV 626 cannot be upheld after extensive research into the manuscript sources.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Lorenz: Mozart's declaration of liability for Freystädtler. A chronology . In: Mozart Yearbook , 1998.
  2. ↑ Michael Lorenz: Franz Jakob Freystädtler. New research results on his biography and his traces in Mozart's work . In: Acta Mozartiana , Vol. 44, 1997, Issue 3/4, pp. 85-108.
  3. ↑ Michael Lorenz: Freystädtler's Supposed Copying in the Autograph of K. 626: A Case of Mistaken Identity . Presentation at the conference Mozart's Choral Music: Composition, Contexts, Performance , Indiana University, Bloomington IN, February 12, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Freystädtler, Franz Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freystädter, Freystadler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and piano teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1841
Place of death Vienna