Friedrich Dionys Weber

Friedrich Dionys Weber, lithograph by Josef Eduard Teltscher , around 1830

Friedrich Dionys Weber (Czech: Bedřich Diviš Weber , born October 9, 1766 in Welchau , Bohemia , † December 25, 1842 in Prague ) was a Bohemian composer and music teacher .

Life

Weber received his education at the grammar school in Duppau (Doupov) and then studied philosophy, theology and law in Prague. Musically he was trained by Georg Joseph Vogler (1792), and in the 1790s he was soon considered an excellent teacher and pianist in Prague. From around 1804 he conducted the concerts of a Prague amateur orchestra and later those of the newly founded Prague Conservatory , of which he was appointed director in 1810 by the Bohemian estates. In 1839 he was also appointed director of the Prague Organ School, founded in 1830.

His work at the conservatory was judged positively by Carl Maria von Weber , who was director of the Prague theater orchestra from 1813 to 1816, in his reports on Prague's musical life.

His musical style was mainly influenced by Mozart , whom he knew personally, and Abbé Vogler . In his compositions he was particularly innovative in the treatment of the brass.

Works (selection)

music

• Salvation of Bohemia , cantata (1797)
• Hymn to Peace for mixed choir and piano (1798)
• Three sextets for six horns
• Three quartets for four French horns in F
• Variations in E flat major for trumpet and orchestra

Fonts

• Biography of Constanze Mozart , née Weber. [Evidence missing!]
• The Prague Conservatory of Music; Prague 1817
• General theoretical-practical pre-school of music; Prague 1828
• Theoretical-practical textbook on harmony and figured bass , I – IV; Prague 1830-1833

student

• Ignaz Moscheles
• Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda
• Václav Emanuel Horák

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Weber, Friedrich Dionys . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 53rd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1886, pp. 182–187 ( digitized version ).
• Rudolf Müller :  Weber, Dionys . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 286 f.
• Friedrich Dionys Weber: The ornamentation at the time of Weber ; Prague 1828 (new edition by Karl-Heinz Schickhaus)
• Michaela Freemanová: Article Weber, Friedrich Dionys ; in: MGG ² , vol. 17; Kassel: Bärenreiter; Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag, 2007; Sp. 571-572.

Web links

• Literature and other media by and about Friedrich Dionys Weber in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
• Works by and about Friedrich Dionys Weber in the catalog of the German National Library