Nikolaus Zmeskall

Nikolaus Zmeskall von Domanovecz (born November 20, 1759 in Unterkubin , then Upper Hungary , † June 23, 1833 in Vienna ) was an Austro-Hungarian civil servant and composer .

Life

Zmeskall was a civil servant in the Hungarian court chancellery in Vienna from 1784 to 1825 and one of Ludwig van Beethoven's closest friends . He played the cello himself and left behind several string quartets .

He is the recipient of Haydn's string quartets op. 20 ( Artaria new edition from 1800) and of Beethoven's string quartet in F minor op. 95 (1810/11, printed 1816). Anton Halm also dedicated his Sonata for Piano and Violoncello Op. 52 (after 1824) to him.

literature

• Adolf Sandberger , Beethoven's friend Nikolaus Zmeskall as a composer. In: ders., Selected essays on the history of music , Volume 2, Munich 1924, pp. 213–225
• Carl von Pidoll, faded game. Memories of Mr. Nikolaus Zmeskall von Domanovetz , Innsbruck 1949 (novel)
• K. Vörös, contributions to the life story of Nikolaus Zmeskáll. In: Studia musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae , vol. 4 (1963), pp. 381-409 (with documents on Zmeskall's civil servant career from the Hungarian State Archives)
• László Zolnay, Miklós Zmeskál, Beethoven's Hungarian friend. In: Studia musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae , Vol. 8 (1966), pp. 211-216
• László Zolnay, On the biography of the composer Nikolaus Zmeskál (1759–1833). In: Studia musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae , Vol. 13 (1971), pp. 311-319
• Hermann Ullrich , Nikolaus Zmeskall von Domanowetz, a half-forgotten friend of Beethoven. In: Yearbook of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna , vol. 32/33 (1976/77), pp. 78–100
• Hermann Ullrich, Beethoven's friend Nikolaus Zmeskall von Domanovecz as a musician. In: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift , vol. 32 (1977), pp. 79–85
• Peter Clive, Beethoven an His World: A Biographical Dictionary . New York 2001, pp. 404f.
• Anna Schirlbauer, Nicolaus Zmeskall and the initials "NZ" on some copies of works by J. Haydn and A. Zimmermann. In: Studia musicologica , Vol. 49 (2008), pp. 49-71
• Anna Schirlbauer, Nicolaus Zmeskall's testament and its significance for music history. In: Studia musicologica , vol. 50 (2009), pp. 135-181
• Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Eds.) A. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 2: Lachner - Zmeskall. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 1116-1121.