Franz Xaver Gebel

Franz Xaver Gebel (* 1787 in Fuerstenau at Breslau ; buried on April 21 ^{. Jul} / 3. May  1843 ^greg. In Moscow ) was a German composer , pianist and conductor .

Life

Franz Xaver Gebel was trained in Vienna by Abbé Vogler and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger . From 1810 he was Kapellmeister at the Leopoldstadt Theater. Jobs in Pest and Lemberg followed . In 1817 he went to Moscow, where he was very successful as a music teacher, organizer of chamber music concerts, pianist and composer. His students include Nikolai Rubinstein , Feofil Tolstoy (1809–1881), Nikolai Mel'gunov and Alexander Villoing .

meaning

The complete works of Franz Xaver Gebel has only been researched to a limited extent and the sources are quite unclear. He played an important role in Moscow's musical life in the 1830s, as he was an excellent expert on Viennese classical music , especially Beethoven's works . His chamber music evenings attracted a wide audience. Michail Glinka met him in 1834 and praised the perfect performance of Gebels string quartets and string quintets. The structure of the quintets demonstrates melodic talent, solid craftsmanship, safe handling of the instruments and a certain preference for the cello, for which Franz Xaver Gebel wrote expressive cantilenas.

Works

Vocal music

• Fair
• Garmonija mirov (Harmony of the Worlds), ( Nikolai Ogarjow )
• Songs (on German texts)
• Arrangements of Russian folk songs

Stage works

• Ash mallets ( Joachim Perinet ), large travested opera 3 acts (Vienna, 1812)
• Rinaldo and Camilla or Die Zauberinsel , large comic opera 3 acts (Vienna, 1812)
• Diamantino, the Knight in the Magic Land or The Guardian Spirit (Joachim Perinet), Magic Opera 4 acts (Vienna, 1813)
• The travested Palmyra (Joachim Perinet), large cartoon opera 2 acts (Vienna, 1813)
• Almasine Princess of Tibet , heroic opera 3 acts (Lviv, 1816)
• Kolumb (Columbus), opera (1843), unfinished

Instrumental music

• Orchestral works
  • Fantaisie et rondeau , for pianoforte and orchestra (Bonn, no year)
  • Overtures
  • 4 symphonies (all lost)

• Chamber music
  • Grande Sonate , for violoncello and piano (Vienna, 1811)
  • 7 quintets for 2 violins, viola and 2 violoncello, op.20-26 (Moscow, no year)
  • Double quintet for 4 violins, 2 viola and 4 violoncello, op.28 (Leipzig / New York, no year)
  • 2 suites for 6 instruments
  • Trio for violin, violoncello and piano (no place, no year)
  • Compositions for guitar flute
  • String quartets, at least 3
• Piano music
  • 3 Sonatines faciles , op.5 (Mainz, no year)
  • Prelude in C major (Leipzig, no year)
  • Fantaisie et variations in C major, op.16 (Leipzig, no year)
  • Variations sentimental for piano four hands (Leipzig, no year)

Fonts

• Handout for musical composition or theoretical-practical general bass school (Rukovodstvo sočineniju muzyki ili Teoretiko-Praktičeskaja general-bassovaja škola), written in German, Russian by P. Artëmov (Moscow, 1842)

Web links

• Works by and about Franz Xaver Gebel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Stöckl:  Gebel [Göbel], Franz Xaver. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).