Johann Baptist Krumpholz

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Detail of an oil painting presumably showing Johann Baptist Krumpholtz.

Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz (Czech: Jan Křtitel Krumpholtz ; born May 8, 1742 in Budenice / Zlonice , † February 19, 1790 in Paris ) was a Czech composer and harpist .

Life

Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz received his first musical instruction from his father in Paris , where he also grew up. Austria played an important part in his life ; u. a. In 1773 he gave an extremely successful concert in the Vienna Burgtheater and is said to have taken counterpoint lessons with Joseph Haydn during his time as a member of the Esterházy orchestra (1773–1776) . His compositions also enjoyed a certain popularity (but only during his lifetime); Concerts and compositions for “his” instrument, the harp, can be named. He had a special relationship with Jan Ladislav Dussek : Before he fled to London , his wife, Anne-Marie Krumpholz (1755–1824), left her husband to go to the British capital with the composer. Out of grief, Krumpholz drowned himself in the Seine in 1790. It can be described as an irony of fate that Anne-Marie was later abandoned by Dussek for his second wife Sophia Corri .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Heribert Sturm: Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Countries. Volume II, I-M . R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-486-52551-4 , p. 322 (accessed December 18, 2007).