Johann Ignaz Beyer

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Johann Ignaz Beyer (also Giovanni Ignazio) (* around 1700 ; † 1758 ) was an Austrian composer , organist and Kapellmeister .

Life

From 1720 Beyer was a musician or conductor in the chapel of Count Vaclav Morzin in Prague . From 1723 to 1726 he was the organist there , whose church compositions are archived in Göttweig Abbey .

He then worked from 1726 to 1731 with the actor, librettist and theater director Heinrich Rademin (1674–1731) in the production of the Singspiele for the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna . Johann Joseph Fux was his teacher around this time. In 1734 he is listed as compositore del Teatro privilegio del SMC in Vienna, i.e. he was the composer of the opera buffa for the Kärntnertortheater.

Johann Ignaz (Giovanni Ignazio) Beyer confessed to his teacher Fux in his application for a position with the Olomouc bishop Egk . According to the same source, Beyer had also worked as Maestro della Musica of the Italian Opera in Vienna and the churches of Sant'Angelo and San Giovanni Crisostomo in Venice . He had also participated in the coronation opera Alesandro nell'Indie (music: Johann Adolph Hasse , libretto: Pietro Metastasio ) on the occasion of her coronation as Queen of Hungary in Pressburg in 1741 for Maria Theresa , which Pietro Mingotti performed with his opera troupe.

From 1751 to 1758 Beyer was Kapellmeister in the aristocratic Salm family in Brno .

Two symphonies that are ascribed to him can be found in the Schranck No: II collection of Johann Georg Pisendel in Dresden , the parts of which contain the indication del Sig. Beyer a Vienna . Pisendel wrote oboe parts for both Beyer's symphonies by hand.

Many of Beyer's instrumental compositions were taken by Duke Anton Ulrich von Sachsen-Meiningen from Vienna, where he lived from 1728–1745 and where he often attended the Kärntnertortheater, to Meiningen .

plant

  • La villanella fatta contessa per amore. Kömodienoper, Vienna June 2, 1734 in the Kärnertortheater (Libretto: Anton Ulrich von Sachsen-Meiningen).
  • The Grace of God, which works differently [...] A musical oratorio [...] By Johann Ignatz Beyer, organist and composer of the Rom. Kaiserl. privileged theaters in Vienna Vienna 1734.
  • Concerto for recorder, 2 violins, viola and cello (1750) (Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe)
  • Divertimento. 2 violins and bass (1740–1760) (Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe)
  • Parthia (Partita) for recorder, violin and cello ms (Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe)
  • Partita I in C. Flute, Violin and Cello autograph (Fürstlich Thurn und Taxis'schen Hofbibliothek, Regensburg)
  • Partita II in C. Flute, Violin and Cello autograph (Fürstlich Thurn und Taxis'schen Hofbibliothek, Regensburg)
  • Sonata for recorder, 2 violins, viola and cello m (Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe)
  • Sinfonia in D for 2 violins and cello (Laun, Stockholm)
  • Sinfonia in C major (Lambach, Benedictine monastery)
  • Sinfonia in B flat major. 2 violins, 2 oboes, violetta, bass, cello and harpsichord (Dresden)
  • Sinfonia in A major. 2 violins, 2 oboes, violetta, bass, cello and harpsichord (Dresden)
  • Graduals. Choir (Göttweig Library)
  • 2 fairs

literature

  • Georg Reichert: On the history of the Viennese mass compositions in the first half of the 18th century. Thematic directory of masses from the circle of the Viennese pre-classics. (Dissertation) Vienna 1935.
  • Václav Kapsa: Bohemian Composers and their Instrumental Works in Cabinet II in The Instrumental Repertoire of the Dresden Court Chapel in the First Two Thirds of the 18th Century. Tradition and notists: Report on the international colloquium from June 23 to 25, 2010. Dresden (conference contribution) pp. 185f. [1]
  • Herbert Seifert: Texts on musical drama in the 17th and 18th centuries: essays and lectures Hollitzer, Vienna 2014.
  • Maren Goltz: The Viennese libretti collection of Duke Anton Ulrich von Sachsen-Meiningen in Early Music in the cultural landscape of Thuringia Kamprad, Altenburg 2010. [2]

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich W. Riedel (ed.): The Göttweiger thematic catalog from 1830. , Munich 1979, vol. 2, p. 74.
  2. ^ Jiří Sehnal: The music inventory of the Olomouc Bishop Leopold Egk from 1760 as a source of pre-classical instrumental music in: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 29 (1972). Pp. 289-290.
personal data
SURNAME Beyer, Johann Ignaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1700
DATE OF DEATH 1758