Matthäus Stegmayer
Matthäus Stegmayer , also Matthias Stegmayer (born April 29, 1771 in Vienna ; † May 10, 1820 in Vienna- Wieden ; the year of death is also given as 1810 ) was an Austrian composer, musician, music publisher, librettist and actor.
life and work
Matthäus Stegmayer was the son of a master tailor and citizen of Vienna and the father of Karl Stegmayer (1800–1862), the author of some montanist half-timbered works but also of stage pieces, as well as the conductor, choirmaster of the Vienna men's choir and founder of the Vienna Singing Academy Ferdinand Stegmayer (1801–1863), and Wilhelm Stegmayer (* 1805), a child actor in his youth, whose trace was later lost as a lieutenant in the Imperial Austrian Infantry Regiment "Duke of Wellington" No. 42.
Matthew Stegmayer was with the Imperial Chapel (Hofcapell-Singknaben) in the Dominican church and attended from 1783 to 1789, the Academic High School , however, entered his inclination Following this, in the company of players of Johann Christian Kunz and 1790 in the team of Christof Ludwig Seipp in Bratislava a with whom he toured the Austrian province. With Seipp he began to compose incidental music from 1792, the first work was the music for August von Kotzebue's singspiel Der Eremit von Formentara . In the same year he was hired as a young lover at the Josefstädter Theater . From 1796 he worked in Emanuel Schikaneder's Freihausheater as a composer, comic actor and playwright. From 1801 he also worked for the kk Hoftheater next to the castle , the Theater an der Wien and the Kärntnertortheater .
From 1804 he was in contact with the Mannheim National Theater , which performed some of his works. In 1807 he made contact with the Weimar court theater and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and from 1816 to 1820 he headed the Wiener Hoftheater-Musikverlag. Stegmayer's best-known work is the Quodlibet Rochus Pumpernickel (music by Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried , first performed in 1809 at the Theater an der Wien). His play Till Eulenspiegel (premiered there in 1808) was the model for Johann Nestroy's posse Eulenspiegel or Schabernack über Schabernack (1835).
Matthäus Stegmayer wrote and composed around a hundred comedies, antics , singing games, operettas, two masses, a few motets , secular and sacred pieces of music. His libretti was set to music by Conradin Kreutzer , Johann Georg Lickl , Ignaz von Seyfried , Franz Xaver Süßmayr and Gottlob Benedict Bierey , among others .
Stegmayer is said to have been a member of the literary society Ludlamshöhle founded by Ignaz Franz Castelli under the name Meyer auf der Stiege .
Street name in Vienna
The bridge Mayergasse in Vienna- Altmannsdorf is named after this family of artists.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Stegmayer, Matthäus . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 37th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1878, pp. 327–330 ( digitized version ).
- Egon v. Komorzynski: Stegmayer, Matthias . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, p. 456.
- Ch. Fastl: Stegmayer Matthäus. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 140.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stegmayer, Matthäus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stegmayer, Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian playwright, composer, librettist, music publisher and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1771 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1820 |
| Place of death | Vienna - Wieden |