Johann Baptist Krumpholz
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
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Krumpholz, Johann Baptist . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, pp. 278–280 ( digitized version ).
- Sylvia Sowa: Krumpholtz, Johann Baptist. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 127 f. ( Digitized version ).
- François-Joseph Fétis : Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz in Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique from 1863 Vol. 5, pp 122-123
- Sheet music and audio files by Johann Baptist Krumpholz in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).
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SURNAME | Krumpholz, Johann Baptist |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krumpholz, Jean-Baptiste; Krumpholtz, Jan Křtitel (Czech) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech composer and harpist |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1742 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Budenice , Zlonice |
DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1790 |
Place of death | Paris |