Franz de Paula Roser

Franz de Paula Roser , also Franz de Paula Roser von Reiter , (born August 17, 1779 in Naarn im Machlande , † August 12, 1830 in Pest ) was an Austrian composer and conductor .

life and work

Franz de Paula Roser initially received music lessons from his father Johann Georg Roser , Cathedral and Kapellmeister in Linz . In 1789 he was sent to Vienna, where he is said to have been briefed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . As a result he received further lessons in Kremsmünster from Georg Pasterwitz and from 1795, back in Vienna, from Johann Georg Albrechtsberger . In 1796 he began a novitiate at Wilhering Abbey , where he performed two masses, then briefly embarked on a military career before finally making a decision in favor of music. This was followed by positions as music director in Freiburg im Breisgauand - after a short stay with an opera company in Paris - as Kapellmeister in Linz (1801) and in Verona (1802). From 1803 he worked as a singer at the theaters of Klagenfurt and Pest . From 1806 to 1811 he worked as a house composer for the private orchestra of a Hungarian landowner in Stuhlweissenburg County , in 1811 he went to Linz again as a theater conductor and from 1812 to 1819 he was engaged as a conductor at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. From 1819 he was assistant conductor at the Theater am Kärntnertor . In 1820 he became Kapellmeister at the Theater an der Wien before moving to Pest in this capacity in 1824. Most recently he lived again in Vienna, where he had accompanied his oldest daughter Magdalena († 1888), who worked there as a singer.

As a composer, Roser initially mainly created church and chamber music, later dances and numerous works, especially for the Viennese suburban stages, including a series of operas, operettas, musical plays, melodramas, ballets and parodies. Roser also contributed a variation on a waltz by Anton Diabelli , who had inspired a total of 50 contemporary composers to each produce 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: The Roser family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Roser von Reiter, Franz de Paula . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 27th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, pp. 38–41 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Franz de Paula Roser in the International Music Score Library Project