Leopold Kozeluch
Antonín Leopold Koželuh ( Leopold Anton Ko (t ) zeluch; born June 26, 1747 in Velvary; † May 7, 1818 in Vienna) was a Bohemian composer and music educator.
Life
Leopold Koželuh was the son of the shoemaker's trade and civil man Antonín Bartholomäus Koželuh; he was given the name Ioannes Antonius. The composer Antonín January Koželuh was his cousin, the pianist Katharina Cibbini (1785-1858) his daughter. To avoid confusion with his cousin, he named himself well to before 1774. On the occasion of his marriage on 14 November 1782 Maria Allmayr of all-star ( a niece Ignaz von Born ) he was registered as " Johann Leopold Koscheluck " in the matric.
His first artistic instruction received Koželuh in Welwarn by Anton Kubík and later by his cousin and Franz Xaver Dussek. He attended high school in Prague successfully and then studied law. After a few semesters, he abandoned his studies and devoted himself entirely to music.
In 1771 he made his debut with a ballet at the National Theatre in Prague. In the next seven years Koželuh composed about 25 works for the Prague National Theatre. In 1778 he went to Vienna and was probably for a short time a pupil of Johann Georg Albrechtsberger.
After a short time became a celebrated pianist Koželuh. The imperial court entrusted him with the successor of Georg Christoph Wagenseil as music teacher to the Archduchess Elisabeth, the daughter of Empress Maria Theresa. 1781 Koželuh refused the post of court organist in Salzburg from the successor of Mozart. For this he was in 1792 after Mozart's death chamber at the same time Kapellmeister and court composer for life. Some students, including the blind pianist Maria Theresia Paradis, he taught privately at home.
Excited by Masonic ideas Koželuh appeared in Vienna in the boxes to Palm tree and to the three eagles.
During his lifetime learned Koželuh recognition throughout Europe; in his last years he was often criticized but as a prolific writer. The negative reviews of Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven are still remembered today. Still have his best works on already broad musical language Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert. In fact, some of his works for a long time were attributed to Beethoven.
Leopold Koželuh died in Vienna on 7 May 1818 aged 70 years at the gout.
Works
Koželuh left about 400 compositions. Among them are around 30 symphonies and 22 piano concertos, two clarinet concertos, a trumpet concerto, 24 sonatas for piano and violin, 63 piano trios, two oratorios, cantatas nine and some church music. Among his works are also six operas and ballets, but with the exception of an opera to have been lost.