Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur

Joseph Aloys Schmitt Baur ( born November 8, 1718, Bamberg, † October 24, 1809 in Karlsruhe ) was a German composer, court music, instrument maker and music teacher.

Life

Joseph Aloys Schmitt Baur received his musical education by the Würzburg court organ builder Johann Philipp seuffert. He was also a pupil of Niccolò Jommelli, probably in Bologna. Around 1750 he was employed in the court orchestra of Rastatt, where he was concertmaster in 1759 and in 1766 Kapellmeister. During this time he set German and Italian works for the stage. After the dissolution of Rastatt chapel he was concertmaster in the court orchestra in Karlsruhe. From January 1775 Schmittbaur given the position of Kapellmeister in Cologne, where he sustained coined the conservative musical life through the concerts of the " musical academies ". Just two years later, after the death of Giacinto Sciatti († 1777), he became Kapellmeister in Karlsruhe, where he helped the local chapel in high esteem. Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart commented on Schmittbaur: "He is one of the most distinguished composers of our country, and only now we see what the world long ago had him. "

Schmittbaur was in demand as an organ expert, he also produced replicas of the 1762 Benjamin Franklin invented the glass harmonica and improved on them, including for one of his most famous pupils, the blind Marianne Kirchgeßner.

Work

Schmittbaur composed masses, cantatas, symphonies, string quartets, flute quartets and other chamber music; In addition he set stage works.

Operas

  • L' isola disabitata ( Serenade, Pietro Metastasio libretto, 1762, Rastatt )
  • The silent love ( Singspiel libretto GL Korn, 1767, Rastatt )
  • Imeneo in Atene ( opera seria libretto Silvio Stampiglia, 1768, Rastatt )
  • Hercules on the Oeta (Prelude with singing, LibrettoJ. B. Michelis, 1771, Hanover )
  • Il re pastore (opera seria libretto Pietro Metastasio, 1772, Rastatt )
  • Lindor and Ismene ( Singspiel, Julius Friedrich Heinrich von Soden, 1771, Karlsruhe, Germany )
  • Endymion ( serenata, Pietro Metastasio libretto, 1774, Karlsruhe, Germany )
  • Shot of geese joke, or fraud of Love ( Singspiel libretto RF Möller, 1787, Karlsruhe, Germany )
  • Epilogue on Karlstag (1788, Karlsruhe)
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