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Beethoven died in Vienna on Monday, 26 March 1827. The funeral took place in the afternoon of 29th March.
Table
[edit]Various (abbreviated) connections between people: C=Concerts spirituels • D=Diplomats • H=Hofkapelle • K=Kärntnertor theatre • L=Ludlamshohle • Q=Quartet player • T=Hoftheater • U=Unsolved • V=Diabelli 50 variations
| Name | Role | Profession | Abbr. | Born | Died | Age | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ignaz Aßmayer | choirmaster | kapellmeister | HL | 11 Feb 1790 | 13 Aug 1862 | 72 | Appointed as an organist of the Imperial Chapel (Hofkapelle) in 1825 |
| Ignaz Böck | 'Bones | waldhorn player | 1754 | 1815 c. | 61 | Either there really were two trombone-playing brothers of this name, or they are Anton and Ignaz Böck ('die Gebrüder Böck'), itinerant solo waldhorn players of astounding virtuosity. There is little reference to them after about 1815.[1] | |
| Anton Böck | 'Bones | waldhorn player | 1757 | 1815 c. | 58 | More refs:[2][3] | |
| Joseph Frühwald | choir (T) | tenor soloist | Hk | 1781 or 1782 | 20 Apr 1856 | 74[4] | Hofkapelle singer from 1831, with Titze from 1832.[4] |
| Aloys Fuchs | choir (B) | civil servant | a | 22 Jun 1799 | 20 Mar 1853 | 53 | Musical lawyer, worked in the War department with Kiesewetter, collected manuscripts, made a catalogue of Haydn's works. Fuchs sang bass in Kiesewetter's house/salon concerts, also played cello in Simon Molitor's quartet.[5] |
| Johann Baptist Geißler}} | choir (T) | tenor | Ht | 'verehrlichte (Gruenberg)', member kk Hoftheater 1786-1800.[6] Archivist and librarian of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde[7] | |||
| Benedikt Groß (Gross)}} | choir (T) | tenor | Hk | Sang with de:Anna Frölich and §Ludwig Titze at concerts organised up to 1825 by de:Josef Hochenadl and Kiesewetter (from 1815)[8] Sang Der Hirt auf der Felsen, D965, in 1838 with a 12 year-old Alexander Leitermayer, the son of Michael.[9][10] | |||
| Kokrement (Kokrment?) | choir (T) | job | U | Tenor. Still unresolved - nothing at all, despite a number of relatively intensive searches. | |||
| Lidl (Leidl) | choir (B) | U | See talk | ||||
| Wenzel Nejebse | choir (B) | civil servant | D | 26 Sep 1796 | 19 Apr 1865 | 68 | Brother of painter de:Johann Nejebse. Amateur bass singer. Worked in the govt. Censor dept., then in Finance dept. Founder member of the Wiener Männergesang-Vereins in 1843. Sang Schubert vocal quartets with Josef Barth, Josef Götz[11] und Johann Karl, Ritter Umlauff v. Frankwell (bzw. J. Nestroy) from 1821.[12] Performed Schubert partsongs 'Das Dorfchen', D598 & octet 'Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern', D714 at the Kärntnertortheater in March 1821. Sang 'Dithyrambe', D801 the day after Schubert's death, 20 November 1828, at the G der MF.[13] |
| Joseph Perschl | choir (B) | Bass singer | Ht | 1784 | 2 Jun 1856 | 71-72[14] | Singer at the Hoftheater from 1804, and also in the Hofkapelle.[14] A kk viola player in 1829:[15] kk Double-bass player in 1836.[16] Died in Vienna from lung disease. NB Probably not Leopold Perschl, double-bass player at the Kärntnertortheater in 1822.[17] |
| Leopold Pfeiffer | choir (B) | Bass soloist | H | 1757/1758 | 29 Oct 1831 | 73[4] | [4] |
| Matthias Rathmayer (Rathmeyer) | choir (T) | lawyer | D | An accomplished amateur who frequently sang at the private house concerts of the empress Marie Therese of Austria. According to the court directory (Schematismus) in 1800 he was a member of the law faculty at the Theresianum. Sang Uriel in The Creation with Haydn conducting and Salieri at the keyboard in the Burgtheater on 22 and 23 December 1799, for a Composers' Society [Tonkünstlergesellchaft] benefit for composers' widows & children.[18] | |||
| Kolumban Schnitzer, Edler von Meerau |
choir (T) | diplomat | D | 1854 | Died in Meran. Secretary, Austrian Legation, Florence. Connected with the Ferdinandeum (Tyrolean State Museum).[19] Librettist of Der Tanz, D.826. Sang 'Der zurnenden Diana', D707 at a Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde evening in Nov 1827 and participated in 'Der Gondelfahrer' in Jan 1828.[20] Sang tenor in Kiesewetter's house/salon concerts with Fuchs (qv)[21] Billions of refs here: [22] | ||
| Sikora (Sykora)}} | choir (T) | tenor | U | Not Valentin Sykora. Possibly Joseph Sikora, secretary of Vincenz Graf von Kaunitz, interested in Astronomy.[23] | |||
| Ludwig Titze}} | choir (T) | tenor soloist | Hk | 1 Apr 1797 | 11 Jan 1850 | 52 | |
| Tuschke (Tuschky)}} | 'Bones | trombonist | K | Played in the Kärntnertor Theatre[24] | |||
| Weidl | 'Bones | trombonist | K | Played in the Kärntnertor Theatre[24] | |||
| Joseph Michael Weinkopf | choir (B) | kapellmeister | 1780 | 8 Mar 1862 | Actor at kk Hoftheater 1807-1809, and 1814-1821 ("kk Hofsschauspieler)"; later choirmaster of the choirboys of the Hoftheater, singer at St. Stephen's cathedral and Kapellmeister of the Hofpfarrkirche of St. Michael's Church, Vienna. d. Vienna.[25] | ||
| Ziegler | choir (B) | U | See talk |
References
[edit]- Notes
- ^ Böck, Ignaz; 1754-1814; Hornist (PND 103871470). Lipowsky, Felix Joseph: Baierisches Musik-Lexikon München 1811.
- ^ Köhler, 1835
- ^ "Stein- und Feurherd-Platten-Handlung der Gebruder Bock". Gemeinnütziger und erheiternder Haus-Calender für das österr. Kaiserthum..., p. 165 - Directory of Vienna? By Joseph Ritter von Seyfried.
- ^ a b c d von Köchel 1869, p. 96.
- ^ Hanson 1985, p. 125.
- ^ Hofteather catalogue 1892, p. 344.
- ^ Burnham & Steinberg 2000, p. 281.
- ^ Liu 2013, pp. 63–5.
- ^ Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, Volume 40, p. 427.
- ^ Harten, Uwe (2001). Leitermayer, Familie, in: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online,. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
- ^ Jiří Záloha, Josef Barth, Josef Götz: Zwei Schubert-Sänger böhmischer Herkunft.
- ^ Nejebse Brüder OAT
- ^ Clive 1997, p. 140.
- ^ a b Hofteather catalogue 1892, p. 348.
- ^ GASCHE david, Dissertation - E-Theses - Universität Wien Dissertation
- ^ Hof-und Staats-Schematismus des oesterreichen Kaiserthums I. Theil. Wien: kk Hof-und Staats-Aerariat-Drucker (1836)
- ^ Albrecht 1996b.
- ^ Albrecht 2008, pp. 31–32.
- ^ NZF 1840, p. LVII.
- ^ Hanson 1985, p. 228, 229.
- ^ Clive 1997, p. 95.
- ^ Kolumban Schnitzer von Meerau (Re: Fragen zu Text von Schubert-Lied D 826 "Der Tanz") Bernd-Christoph Kämper, UB Stuttgart. Accessdate 12 October 2017
- ^ A book to cite
- ^ a b Marx, Adolf Bernhard, ed. (2 May 1829). "Post nubila Phöbus!". Berliner allgemeine musikalische Zeitung. 6 (18): 142–3. NB Inc. list of the reconstituted orchestra of the Theater am Kärntnertor, which had been dark for some time.
- ^ Hofteather catalogue 1892, p. 3508.
- Sources
- Albrecht, Carol Padgham (2008). Music in Public Life: Viennese reports from the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung 1798-1804 (D Phil. thesis). Kent, Ohio: Kent State University.
- Burnham, Scott G.; Steinberg, Michael P., eds. (2000). Beethoven and His World. The Bard Music Festival Series. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691070735.
- Clive, H. P. (1997). Schubert and His World: A Biographical Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198165828.
- Devaux, Vanessa (2014). Joseph Mayseder (1789-1863): A Viennese Violinist and Composer (PDF) (D. Phil. dissertation). Cardiff University. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- Hanson, Alice M. (1985). Musical Life in Biedermeier Vienna. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521257992.
- von Köchel, Ludwig (1869). Die Kaiserliche Hof-Musikkapelle in Wien von 1543 bis 1867 (in German). Vienna: Beck'sche Universitats-Buchhandlung.
- Liu, Chung-Mei (2013). Die Rolle der Musik im Wiener Salon bis ca. 1830 (M. phil. thesis) (in German). University of Vienna.
- Die Kuratoren des Ferdinandeums, ed. (1840). "Alphabetisches Verzeichnis der Herren Mitglieder des Ferdinandeums". Neue Zeitschrift des Ferdinandeums für Tirol und Vorarlberg (in German). 6. Innsbruck: Wagner'schen Schriften: LVII.
- "Wien, den 11 März". Oesterreicher Beobachter. 1 (71): 330. 12 March 1827.
- Voss, Egon, ed. (2012). "Preface". Ludwig van Beethoven: Three Equali for four Trombones WoO 30 (in English, French, and German`4). München: G. Henle Verlag. ISMN 979-0-2018-1151-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - Wiener Hoftheater. Katalog der Portrait-Sammlung der k.u.k. General-Intendanz der k.k. Hoftheater : zugleich ein biographisches Hilfsbuch auf dem Gebiet von Theater und Musik. Vol. 2, Gruppe IV. Vienna: Commissions-Verlag von Adolph W. Künast. 1892.