Georg Czarth

Georg Czarth or Georg Zarth (born April 8, 1708 in Hochtánov (Hochtann) near Havlíčkův Brod in Bohemia ; † after 1780 in Mannheim ) was a Bohemian composer , violinist and flautist of the pre-classical period .

Life

Georg Czarth received his first music lessons from the cantor Lukas Lorenz in Deutschbrod, who was also one of Johann Stamitz's first teachers . He traveled to Vienna via Prague and received violin lessons from the imperial court musicians Franz Josef Timmer († 1731) and Johann Otto Rosetter (1690–1752) and flute lessons from Biarelli. Georg Czarth traveled with Franz Benda to Poland in 1729 , where both came to the service of Starost Suchaczewski. In 1732 they both moved to the "Polniche Cammer Musique" in Warsaw .

From 1734 Czarth and Benda were in the service of Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia in Ruppin and a year later in Rheinsberg. Czarth followed his master when he ascended the royal throne in 1740 to Berlin, where he worked until 1758. According to Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (Critical Letters on Music, 1757, Volume 3), he was one of “ the most famous royal gentlemen of the Capell Musicians ”. In 1757 he became the first violinist, " electoral court musician " in the Mannheim court orchestra . Only from this point on did the journey together with Franz Benda end. He stayed in the Mannheim chapel until 1778, the year the court orchestra moved to Munich. At this time Leopold Mozart wrote in his travel notes of an encounter with Czarth. Czarth stayed in Mannheim until the end of his life. A document in the Mannheim court calendar gives him a salary of 800 guilders (1758), along with the usual advantages, in this register he was kept until 1780.

Works

Most of Czarth's compositions were written while he was in the service of Frederick of Prussia. He created several symphonies, all of which are considered lost, several violin and flute concertos, a concert for flute, bassoon and strings as well as solo and trio sonatas for various ensembles. In addition to the works mentioned above, he had six flute and six violin solos engraved in copper in Paris in 1753, on the title page of which his name is given as "Zart".

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Czarth, Georg . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 24th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1872, p. 382 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leopold Mozart's travel records from 1763 to 1771
2. ^ François-Joseph Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique 1862
3. ^ Robert Eitner: Biographical-bibliographical source-lexicon of musicians and music scholars ... 1902
4. ↑ Czarth's curriculum vitae on Operas.com.ar  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.