Franz Xaver Süssmayr

Süssmayr (* 1766 in Swan City, Upper Austria, † September 17, 1803 in Vienna) was an Austrian composer.

Life

Süßmayr received well by his father first music lessons, since 1779, when he joined the School of Kremsmünster, he has already performed as an organ Ista et Altista, later also as a tenor et Violinista. Through the rest of the subjects in which he was taught, he achieved an education that is rarely bestowed was a musician at that time.

In the later years of his Kremsmuenster time he became more and more often used for the composition of church music, and starting in 1785 for the music for plays that have been performed in Kremsmuenster.

1787 ended his school days, but in 1788 there is a track that he lives in Vienna. In the same year he probably met Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, because in a lost letter he mentioned that his operetta Der rauschige Hans, whom he has dated March 6, 1788, had suffered "under the guidance of the blessed, immortal Mozart".

Süßmayr was a pupil of Antonio Salieri and Constanze Mozart, according to a statement from 1790/91 also a pupil of Mozart. With Süßmayr Mozart discussed in his last days said to his Requiem, so Süßmayr had seen because of this verbal information and some left behind notes ( " piece of paper " ) is able to complete the piece after Mozart's death. Although often criticized belong Süßmayr supplements ( he composed / orchestrated the last five parts) today in performances of the standard.

From 1792 Süßmayr was conductor at the National Theatre, and from 1794 by Joseph Weigl Kapellmeisteradjunkt on Kärntnertortheater. He is regarded as a successful composer of Viennese Singspiel and composed about 30 works for the stage. His major works include the operas The exodus from Egypt, Moses or (1792 ), The Mirror of Arcadia (1794 ), Idris and Zenaide (1795 ) and Soliman II (1799 ). Furthermore, he composed instrumental music, cantatas and masses.

It is located on the St. Marx Cemetery buried.

Alleged paternity of Constanze's son Franz Xaver Wolfgang

To this day, keep rumors that Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart ( * 1791) but rather the son Süßmayr was, who also bore the name Francis Xavier. Then the procreation of Baden in Lower Austria had taken place, where Constanze regularly went to the spa and was accompanied by Süßmayr - express with Mozart's consent to supposedly take care of Constanze '. The son was born on July 26, 1791. If Mozart himself was the biological father, the son was born 17 days too early, "For nine months earlier, in October 1790, Mozart was traveling and did not return until November 10, back." ( Hildesheim, p 348)