Ignaz Assmayer

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Ignaz Assmayr, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1841

Ignaz Aßmayer (born February 11, 1790 in Salzburg , † August 31, 1862 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer and church musician.

Life

Ignaz Aßmayer was born in Salzburg as the son of a tailor who immigrated from Tyrol. The boy's musical talent made itself felt at an early age, and he was given a solid musical education, especially by Andreas Brunmayer from Salzburg . Some sources report that Aßmayer was also a student of Michael Haydn . In 1808 he became organist at St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg while on military leave . Soon he was also able to record his first successes as a composer. In 1815 Aßmayer moved to Vienna, where he became a student of court conductor Antonio Salieri and vice-court conductor Joseph von Eybler . As a thank you for the lessons Aßmayer dedicated a sonata for violin and piano to his teacher Salieri in 1822. In 1824 a variation by Assmayer appeared in Anton Diabelli's Patriotic Art Association .

1815-1818 Aßmayer worked as a music teacher at a private school, then he worked as a private teacher. In 1823 he became a piano and figured bass teacher with the court choir boys. In 1824 he was employed as a rain choir at the Vienna Schottenstift , and in 1825 as 2nd court organist alongside Simon Sechter . After he had become 2nd vice court conductor in 1838, after the death of Eybler and Joseph Weigl in 1846 he became his successor as court conductor. In 1854 he tested Anton Bruckner on the organ. Aßmayer died in the Schottenhof (the Schottenstift also keeps most of Aßmayer's compositions) and was buried in the Währinger Allgemeine Friedhof. After it was released, he was exhumed and transferred to the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Ignaz Aßmayer was friends with Franz Schubert , who dedicated a copy of his funeral waltz to him (D 365 No. 2), and was a member of the Ludlamshöhle artists' association .

Honors

Aßmayer received the Golden Cross of Merit with the crown and Duke Robert I ( Duchy of Parma ) awarded him the Duke of Parma gold medal for art and science . In 1894, Aßmayergasse in Vienna- Meidling was named after him.

Works

Aßmayer was considered a leading exponent of classicism, which also strongly influenced his works. Correspondingly, Aßmayer's rejection increased along with the aesthetic change in the advancing 19th century. A correspondent for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik commented in 1846: " Incidentally, it is a sad perception that since Weigl’s and Eibler’s deaths and Donizetti's madness, notorious inabilities have shared in the first of the musical court offices. One only needs to think of the two Hofkapellmeister Aßmayer [...] and Randhartinger , the rest of which, however, include some excellent talents, not to be remembered. "

  • 21 fairs; Mass in D, Mass in C, ed. by Hermann Dechant , Apollon Music Officer, Vienna
  • The Vow , Oratory, 1833
  • Saul and David , Oratorio, 1841
  • Saul's Death , Oratorio, 1842
  • Two symphonies (B flat major, 1835 and a missing one in D minor)
  • Chamber music
  • Piano and organ works

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  1. ↑ NZfM 25 (1846), p. 189
personal data
SURNAME Aßmayer, Ignaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1862
Place of death Vienna