Josef Antonín Sehling
Josef Antonín Sehling (last name also Seeling , Seling , Sölling ; born January 7, 1710 in Theusing , † September 19, 1756 in Prague ) was a Bohemian composer and violinist .
Life
Josef Antonín Sehling received music lessons from the Theusinger Kantor. He then studied in Prague and Vienna. From 1737 he was second violinist in the chapel at St. Vitus Cathedral as well as court music and composer for Count Wenzel Morzin in the Morzin Palace in Prague. In 1740 he became choir regent at the Maltese Church on Prague's Lesser Town ; In addition, he was temporarily deputy choir regent at St. Vitus Cathedral and choir director at the Barnabite Church of St. Benedict in Prague.
Sehling was a successful composer and representative of baroque music in Bohemia. He composed numerous arias , masses , requies, motets and offerings . His compositional oeuvre is scattered over numerous libraries, among others in Nymburk , Raudnitz , Braunau , Prague-St.Veit and the monastery of the Elisabetherinnen. He was probably connected to Christoph Willibald Gluck .
His students included the soprano Johann Christian Preissler from Blottendorf and the Premonstratensian Johann Oelschlegel (1724–1788), choir rector at Strahov Monastery , organ builder and composer.
Compositions (selection)
- Oratorio Filius prodigus [The Prodigal Son], 1739
- Judith , a coronation opera on the occasion of the coronation of Empress Maria Theresa as Queen of Bohemia, 1743
- Constantinus , 1751
- Missa Bella premunt hostilia
- Missa De robur for auxilium
literature
- Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former regional district of Eger. Volume 2, Druckhaus Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Männedorf / ZH 1987, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 , p. 190
- The Egerländer September 1981
- Home letter for the districts Plan-Weseritz and Tepl-Bečov. 1985/86
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Sehling, Joseph Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 33. Part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1877, p. 322 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- CV Sehlings (Czech)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sehling, Josef Antonín |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sehling, Joseph Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bohemian composer and violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1710 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Theusing |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 1756 |
| Place of death | Prague |