Joachim Fuetsch

Joachim Joseph Fuetsch (born August 11, 1766 in Salzburg ; † May 4, 1852 there ) was an Austrian composer and cellist.

Life

Joachim Fuetsch received elementary singing lessons from Jacob Freistädler at the municipal parish church. In 1775 he was accepted into the cathedral singing school, where he remained as a choir boy until 1784. During this time he received lessons from Leopold Mozart , Luigi Gatti (basso continuo) and Michael Haydn (composition).

Afterwards Fuetsch was cello cellist, composer and “ chamber musician ” at the Salzburg court. On archiepiscopal order, he trained for a year in Verona with the cellist Luigi Zardonati. From 1817 to about 1835 Joachim Fuetsch was the cathedral music director and singing teacher at the cathedral chapel, where Carl Santner was one of his students. Fuetsch composed several concertos, sonatas and practice pieces for cello, but these were not printed. Only a few three to four-part pieces for male choir have been published.

In the new version of 1822, Fuetsch doubled the inventory of the Salzburg court music originally written by the musician and court copyist Joseph Richard Estlinger (1720–1791) between 1782 and 1791, the Catalogis Musicalis in Ecclesia Metropolitana (often incorrectly referred to as the Gatti catalog). Fuetsch was the link between the old Salzburg court music on the one hand and the time of the Cathedral Music Association and the Mozarteum .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Mendel : Musical Conversations Lexicon from 1876, Volume 4
2. ^ Robert Eitner : Eitner's sources Lexicon of Musicians and Music Scholars 1901, Vol. 4 p. 99
3. ↑ Dominik Šedivý: Salzburg's music history under the sign of provincialism ?: The first decades of the 19th century e-book, Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2014