Hieronymus Payer

Hieronymus Payer

Hieronymus Payer (born February 13, 1787 in Meidling ; † August 17, 1845 there ) was an Austrian composer and pianist .

Life

Hieronymus Payer was the son of a teacher. As a 10-year-old he earned his living as a substitute musician and was then employed by his father as an assistant teacher. In 1806 he became Kapellmeister in the Meidlinger Sommertheater , for which he even wrote little singspiele . He later moved to the inner city and made music successfully in the Redoutensaal and the Theater an der Wien . He was also active as a pedagogue, for example as the teacher of Leopoldine Blahetka .

In 1821 Payer first presented the Physharmonica in a public concert in Vienna . Three years later he went to Amsterdam as Kapellmeister to the Hoogduitse Schouwburg and in 1825 to Paris . In 1832 he returned to Vienna and was the predecessor of Conradin Kreutzer for a short time as Kapellmeister in the Theater in der Josefstadt .

As a pianist, contemporaries compared Payer to Johann Nepomuk Hummel , Ignaz Moscheles and Ferdinand Ries .

Works (selection)

6 Masses and other sacred works

10 operas and musical plays, including

• The wild hunter , Meidling 1806 or July 26, 1807
• L'arbre creux , Meidling 1808
• The hollow tree , Meidling 1810
• The Musical Academy , 1825
• The grief , 1825
• Hochlands Fürsten , 1825 (libretto: Joseph Schütz ), including Johann Nestroy
• La croix de feu , 1830

Instrumental music

• Overtures, concerts, marches, waltzes, piano music, chamber music

literature

• August Schmidt : memorial stones. Biographies. Mechitharisten-Congregation, Vienna 1848, pp. 95–110 .
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Payer, Hieronymus . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 21st part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, pp. 398–402 ( digitized version ).
• Uwe Harten :  Payer Hieronymus. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 373 f. (Direct links on p. 373 , p. 374 ).
• Jürgen Hein : Nestroy in Amsterdam. In: Nestroyana. Vol. 8, No. 3/4, 1988, ISSN  1027-3921 , pp. 52-70.
• Henk J. Koning: Nestroy in Amsterdam. On the reception of his pieces on the Dutch stage in the 19th century. In: Nestroyana. Vol. 14, No. 3/4, 1994, pp. 91-100.
• Gerrit Waidelich: Documents on Nestroy's Amsterdam engagement in correspondence reports about the German theater there. In: Nestroyana. Vol. 17, No. 1/2, 1997, pp. 24-38.

Web links

• Portrait in the District Museum Vienna-Meidling
• Payer in Amsterdam 1825 - 1
• Payer in Amsterdam 1825 - 2