Franz Weiß (musician)

Franz Weiss , also François Weiss , Franz Weiss and František Weiss (born January 18, 1778 in Glatz , Grafschaft Glatz ; † January 25, 1830 in Vienna ) was an Austrian violist and composer .

Life

Franz Weiß was a student of Gotthard Anton Stolle in the Königsaal near Prague. In Vienna he became a violist member of the Schuppanzigh Quartet , which performed in various constellations , from 1808 to 1816 as a private quartet of Andrei Kirillowitsch Rasumowski together with the cellist Joseph Linke and the violinists Ignaz Schuppanzigh and Joseph Sina . White was also a member of the formations occupied by Joseph Böhm from 1816 and again from Schuppanzigh as primary violinist from 1823. As a result, Weiss took part in the world premiere of several string quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven , but was also active as a soloist.

Franz Weiß also emerged as a composer, especially of chamber music, but also concertante and symphonic works. Weiss contributed a variation to a waltz by Anton Diabelli , who had inspired a total of 50 contemporary composers to each create a variation on a self-composed waltz, which was published under the title " Vaterländischer Künstlerverein "; Beethoven processed the theme in his own Diabelli variations .

literature

• Christian Fastl: Weiss, Franz (François). In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Weiß, Franz (viola virtuoso) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 54th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1886, p. 106 ( digital copy ).

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Franz Weiß in the International Music Score Library Project