Jakob Greber
Jacob Greber ( buried on 5 July 1731) was a German Baroque composer of the early 18th century.
Date and place of his birth are unknown. His date of death is uncertain; in the Grove Dictionary it is stated that he was buried on 5 July 1731 in Mannheim.
Add a composer directory, which appeared in London in 1709 as a translation of a French publication, Greber is mentioned as a German who had Study'd Composition in Italy. He is believed to have come with the Tuscan singer Francesca Margarita de l' Epine to England, is the first report of their occurrence on 27 May 1703. In England he was known as " Signor Giacomo Greber ." De l' Epine, apparently Greber's mistress, later married Pepusch. On April 9, 1705 Gli Amori d' Ergasto Greber's Pastorale (later King's Theatre ) performed at the opening of the newly built Queen 's Theatre in the Haymarket. This was the first listed in London Italian opera. However, the performances of the singers do not seem to have been good, the work did not succeed. Some time later left Greber London and appeared in 1707 as Kapellmeister of Duke Charles Philip, the governor of Tyrol in Innsbruck on. Here he composed a festa teatrale ( " theatrical festival" ), entitled L' allegrezza dell ' Eno. The play was performed in 1708 in honor of Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel, who was staying on the way to Spain to her husband Archduke Charles in Innsbruck. Gli Amori d' Ergasto was probably in 1711 to celebrate the enthronement of Emperor Charles VI. performed in Vienna again. When Duke Charles Philip died in 1716, succeeding his elder brother Johann Wilhelm in the same year, Elector Palatine was, he kept Greber in his service. In the yard list from 1723 Johann Greber and Hugo are listed by poachers as Kapellmeister at the same time employees.
Gli Amori d' Ergasto is available as hand written score in the National Library in Vienna. In addition, from Greber six other works for the stage known, of which however only the libretto has survived, as well as four solo cantatas and a chamber cantata.