Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur

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Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur

Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur (born November 8, 1718 in Bamberg ; † October 24, 1809 in Karlsruhe ) was a German composer , court conductor , instrument maker and music teacher.

Life

Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur received his musical training from the Würzburg court organ builder Johann Philipp Seuffert . He was also a student of Niccolò Jommelli , probably in Bologna. Around 1754 he got a job in the Rastatt court orchestra, where he became concert master in 1759 and music director in 1766. During this time he set German and Italian stage works to music. After the Rastatt orchestra was dissolved, he was concertmaster in the Karlsruhe court orchestra . From January 1775, Schmittbaur was given the position of cathedral music director in Cologne, where he had a lasting impact on conservative musical life through the concerts of the "Musical Academies". Just two years later, after the death of Giacinto Sciatti († 1777), he became court conductor in Karlsruhe, where he helped the band there to achieve a high reputation. Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart said about Schmittbaur: "He is one of the most excellent composers in our country, and only now can you see what the world has long had in him."

Schmittbaur was in demand as an organ expert, he also made replicas of the glass harmonica invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1762 and developed them further. a. for one of his most famous students, the blind Marianne Kirchgeßner .

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Schmittbaur composed masses, cantatas, symphonies, string quartets, flute quartets and other chamber music; he also set plays for the stage.

Operas

  • L'isola disabitata (The desert island) ( Serenata , libretto Pietro Metastasio , 1762, Rastatt)
  • Dumb love (Singspiel, libretto GL Korn, 1767, Rastatt)
  • Imeneo in Atene (Opera seria, libretto Silvio Stampiglia , 1768, Rastatt)
  • Hercules on the Oeta (prelude with song, libretto JB Michelis, 1771, Hanover)
  • Il re pastore (Opera seria, libretto Pietro Metastasio, 1772, Rastatt)
  • Lindor and Ismene (Singspiel, Friedrich Julius Heinrich von Soden , 1771, Karlsruhe)
  • Endymion (Serenata or "Operetta", libretto Pietro Metastasio, 1772 or 1774, Karlsruhe)
  • Shot by Gänsewitz, or cheating out of love (Singspiel, libretto HF Möller, 1787, Karlsruhe)
  • Epilogue on Karlstag (1788, Karlsruhe)

Web links

literature

  • Rüdiger Thomsen-Fürst: Son of Harmony! Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur (1718-1809), Kapellmeister of the Margraves of Baden . Publication accompanying the exhibition in the Badische Landesbibliothek [exhibition from December 16, 2009 to April 24, 2010], Karlsruhe: Badische Landesbibliothek, 2009.
  • Exhibition: “Son of Harmony!” Hofkapellmeister Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur. In: Moments - Contributions to regional studies in Baden-Württemberg (2010) 1, p. 28.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Bruderreck; Gabriele Heuer: A stroke of luck for the court orchestra: Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur. In: Website SWR 2. SWR, accessed on January 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Robert Eitner; Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of the musicians and music scholars of the Christian era up to the middle of the nineteenth century
personal data
SURNAME Schmittbaur, Joseph Aloys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmittbauer, Joseph Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, conductor and instrument maker of the pre-classical period
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1809
Place of death Karlsruhe