Franz Xaver Kleinheinz

Franz Xaver Kleinheinz (born June 26, 1765 in Nassenbeuren near Mindelheim , † January 29, 1832 in Pest ) was an Austrian composer , piano teacher and bandmaster .

Life

Kleinheinz first went to Munich and in 1799 to Vienna , where he met Beethoven and soon became a sought-after piano teacher. Giulietta Guicciardi and the sisters Therese Brunsvik and Josephine Brunsvik were among his students . From 1805 he took up a second residence in Brno and in August 1810 got a job as Kapellmeister in Pressburg . At the beginning of May 1813 it was said that Kleinheinz, “one of the most excellent pianists”, had resigned in Pressburg and was back in Vienna. From 1814 to 1824 he worked as a conductor at the Deutsches Theater in Pest.

Works (selection)

• Fantaisie Sonate pour le Piano-Forte composée et dediée à Son Excellence Madame la Comtesse de Brunsvik Maythény , op. 7, Vienna: Joseph Eder [1801]
• Sonate pour le Pianoforte avec l'Accompagnement d'un Violon obligé, composée et dediée à Mad. La Comtesse Therese de Brunswik , op.9 (digital copy )
• Hector's Farewell (Schiller) op. 10 for 1–2 voices and harpsichord, Vienna: Art and Industry Comptoir [1802]
• The glove (Schiller) op. 11 for voice and harpsichord, Vienna: Art and Industry Comptoir [1802]
• Grande Sonate pour le Piano-Forte à quatre mains, composée et dediée aux Demoiselles les Comtesses Julie et Henriette de Brunswick , op.12 , Vienna: Art and Industry Comptoir
• Trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano op.13, Vienna: Bureau d'Arts et d'Industrie, 1802
• Der Kampf (Schiller) op. 14 for voice and piano, "dedicated to Count Georg von Bérényi", Vienna: Kunst- u. Industry Comptoir
• Trois grandes sonates pour le fortepiano, ou clavecin op. 17, Leipzig: Hoffmeister and Kühnel [1803]
• La passione di Gesù Cristo , 1813
• Notturno in D major for piano and viola op. 42 by Ludwig van Beethoven, arranged by Franz Xaver Kleinheinz
• The recommendation ceremony. Final cantata on the occasion of the first performance under the new direction of Mr. Johann Baptist Mayer, sung by the company on April 15th. The words are from Mr Tobias Frech E. v. Ehrimfeld. The music of Franz Xaver Kleinheinz, Kapellmeister of the k. City National Theater in Brno , Brno: Franz Karl Siedler 1805 (digitized version)

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Kleinheinz, Franz Xaver . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1864, p. 63 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Adolf Sandberger , Franz Xaver Kleinheinz. In: ders., Selected essays on the history of music , Volume 2, Munich 1924, pp. 226–247.
• Kleinheinz, Franz Xaver. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 389.
• Arthur Maximilian Miller, Franz Xaver Kleinheinz. In: Publications of the Swabian Research Foundation at the Commission for Bavarian State History , Volume 10, approx. 1974, pp. 152–178.
• Arthur Maximilian Miller, Franz Xaver Kleinheinz. In: Life pictures from Bavarian Swabia , Volume 12, ed. by Adolf Layer, 1980,
• Peter Clive, Beethoven and His World: A Biographical Dictionary , New York 2001, p. 186 f.
• Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Eds.) A. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , p. 508.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thalia , Vienna, ed. by Ignaz Franz Castelli , vol. 1, no. 15 of August 22, 1810, p. 60: "The well-known composer Kleinheinz went to Pressburg as a capellmeister [...]".
2. ↑ Thalia , Vienna, vol. 4, no. 52 of May 1, 1813, p. 208.