Johann Kusser

Johann Sigismund Kusser, also Cousser ( baptized February 13, 1660 in Pressburg ( now Bratislava ), † November 1727 in Dublin ) was a German conductor and composer.

  • 2.1 Stage Works

Life

The son of evangelical cantor in Bratislava Johann Kusser moved in 1674 with his parents to Stuttgart. Two years later he went for six years after Paris and Versailles. Kusser had " to be loved by the world-famous French court composer Jean -Baptiste Lully and to compose from it the French way to learn " happiness. Kusser worked at the courts in Baden -Baden and Ansbach, before he took a trip to Germany in October 1683.

Hofkapellmeister in Braunschweig

In 1690 he became the first conductor of the New Brunswick opera. The following year he married the Brunswick councilman daughter Hedwig Melusine of dam. Their daughter Elisabeth Auguste was the wife of the Brunswick chronicler Philip Julius Rehtmeyer. Kusser created during his time in Braunschweig eight operas, which enriched the Italian-influenced repertoire. Already in 1694 caused him disagreements with the librettist and poet laureate Friedrich Christian Bressand to change at the Hamburg Opera at the goose market.

From Hamburg to Stuttgart

End of 1695 left Kusser Hamburg. After working among others in Nuremberg and Augsburg in 1699 he found a job with Eberhard Ludwig ( Württemberg) at the Stuttgart court, where he was court music director in 1700 years.

London and Dublin

Kusser end 1704 moved to London, where he worked as a composer and private teacher. He went to Dublin in 1707 and was there in 1711, " Chappel - Master of Trinity College ." The appointment as " Chief Composer" and "Master of the Music, attending His Majesties State in Ireland" was 1716. Kusser died in 1727 in Dublin.

Kusser had an impact on the next generation of composers, such as Reinhard Keiser, Johann Mattheson, Georg Philipp Telemann, Christoph Graupner, Georg Caspar Schürmann and George Frideric Handel. His works are played infrequently today.

Works (selection)

  • Three Suite Collections: Apollon Enjoüé, Festin des Muses and La cicala della cetra d' eunomio (1700)

Stage Works

  • Cleopatra ( Libretto probably by Friedrich Christian Bressand after Giacomo Francesco Bussani, Giulio Cesare in Egitto ), opera prologue and three acts (4th premiere February 1690 Braunschweig)
  • Julia (ibid.? ), Opera Act 3 ( 1690 ibid )
  • La Grotta di Dahl salt ( Flaminio Parisetti ), Divertimento Act 1 (Spring 1691 ibid.)
  • Narcissus (Gottlieb Fiedler ), opera prologue and three acts ( October 4, 1692 ibid.; Kusser referred to in the libretto [ Hamburg 1692 ] as an upper - Kapellmeister )
  • Andromeda, Singspiel three acts ( 1692 ibid )
  • Ariadne ( Bressand ), Opera 5 acts ( December 15, 1692 ibid.)
  • Jason (ibid. ), Singspiel 5 acts (1st September 1692 ibid.)
  • Porus (ibid., after Jean Racine ), Singspiel 5 acts ( ibid. 1693 ); fashioned by Christian Heinrich Postel and listed in 1694 under Kussers line as The defeated through wholesale courage and Tapfferkeit Porus in Hamburg
  • Erindo or unblamable The Love ( Bressand ), pastoral play 3 acts ( 1694 Hamburg)
  • The Magnanimous Scipio Africanus ( Fiedler, after Nicolò Minato ), opera Act 3 ( 1694 Hamburg)
  • Pyramus and Thisbe accurate and cohesive Love (C. Schröder ), opera with a prologue ( may not be listed )
  • The enamored forest, lyrical drama 1 act (? Stuttgart)
  • Gensericus when Rome and Kart Hagens overcomers ( Postel ), opera ( 1694 Hamburg? ); doubtful, Johann Georg Conradi attributed
  • The Man of Mode ( George Etherege ) ( Feb. 9, 1705 London, Little Lincoln 's Inn Fields )
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