Joseph Kerzkowsky

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Joseph Kerzkowsky (born May 10, 1791 in Pomeisl in Bohemia as Joseph Johann Nepomuzen Kerzkowsky , † February 19, 1875 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer .

life and work

Joseph Kerzkowsky was born in Pomeisl in 1791 as the son of the rent master Martin Kerzowsky and his wife Maria Anna. His father later became senior bailiff for the Pomeisl lordship, which belonged to the imperial prince von Dietrichstein, along with the surrounding villages.

He was one of the composers who contributed a variation to a waltz by Anton Diabelli in 1824 (Diabelli had suggested a total of 50 contemporary composers, each with a variation on their own waltz, and published it under the title “ Vaterländischer Künstlerverein ”; Beethoven processed the theme in his own Diabelli Variations ). In 1825 Kerzkowsky was involved in the collection “Terpsichore” and later a member of the Vienna Men's Choir Association .

Kerzkowsky apparently embarked on a career as a military officer and was named in 1834 as a "Hofkriegs-Conceptadjunkt", in 1844 as a "Feldkriegs-Concipist", at the time of his death as a retired "War Commissary".

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oesterreichisch-Hungarian Militär-Oekonomie-Zeitung (Military-Oeconomie-Zeitung), Vol. 2, No. 31, February 25, 1875, p. 207 restricted preview, Google Books
  2. ↑ Death book parish St. Stephan, Vienna
  3. ^ A b Wiener Salonblatt: international society review; including supplements "Sport" and "Financier", VI. Vol., No. 9, p. 7 (wrongly names February 20) limited preview, Google Books
  4. ↑ Annual report of the men's choir in Vienna, 1847, Vienna 1848, p. 26 restricted preview, Google Books
  5. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Schematismus des Österreichisches Kaiserthumes: 1834, 1, Vienna, kk Hof- und Staats-Aerarial-Druckerey 1834, p. 291 restricted preview, Google Books
  6. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Österreichs Kaiserthumes, Vienna, kk Hof- und Staats-Aerarial-Druckerey, 1844, p. 575 restricted preview, Google Books
personal data
SURNAME Kerzkowsky, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Nepomyšl
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1875
Place of death Vienna