Georg Wilhelm Gruber

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Georg Wilhelm Gruber (born September 22, 1729 in Nuremberg ; † September 22, 1796 ibid) was a German composer and violinist.

Life

Georg Wilhelm Gruber received his first music lessons from the organist Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel (1697–1775) and at the age of seven he was already in the city service. Johann Siebenkees instructed him in “piano playing” and in composition . He learned to play the violin from the Nuremberg city ​​musician Joachim Hemmerich. At the age of 18 he embarked on an art trip to Frankfurt, Mainz, Leipzig and Dresden and received much applause for his violin playing and his compositions. In the Saxon residence he took lessons in counterpoint from Joseph Umstatt . In 1750 he joined the city orchestra of Nuremberg and sought further training in the presence of the famous violinist Domenico Ferrari in Nuremberg after his violin playing. After the death of the Nuremberg conductor Johan Agrell , Gruber received his position in 1765 and was also appointed "Complimentarius and City Councilor" (who presented the city's gifts to the count on their arrival in Nuremberg on behalf of the council).

Gruber's son Johann Siegmund Gruber (1759–1805) was a lawyer and the author of music bibliographical works. His “biographies of some sound artists” are primarily of local interest. He was mentioned as a composer with his collections “Small Piano Pieces” and “Six Songs to Sing on the Pianoforte”.

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Gruber's works rarely achieved notoriety outside of Nuremberg. Only a small part of his extensive compositional output was printed. The majority of the handwritten works are lost and are only known from written sources. Ernst Ludwig Gerber gave in his "Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Tonkünstler", and also in the new edition printed 20 years later, a directory of Gruber's printed works and those preserved in manuscript. Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart described Gruber's violin playing as wonderful, his compositions as thorough and fiery, and his church style as sublime, but overloaded with ornamentation.

His work includes five oratorios and cantatas, 60 German and Latin psalms, songs and arias to texts by popular poets, 3 harpsichord concerts, quartets, trios, duos and solos for violin and piano, french horn concerts, sextets for wind instruments, flute duets and other individual works.

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Discography

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Eitner : Biographical-bibliographical sources-lexicon of musicians and music scholars (1901) , p. 391 f.
personal data
SURNAME Gruber, Georg Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grueber, Georg Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and violinist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1796
Place of death Nuremberg