Antonio Casimir Cartellieri

Antonio Casimir Cartellieri ( born September 27, 1772 in Gdansk, † September 2, 1807 in Liebshausen, Bohemia ) was an Italian composer of classical music.

Life and work

Cartellieris parents were singers; Father Antonio was a son of originating from Milan Mecklenburg- Strelitz'schen chamber singer Anton Cartellieri, the mother of Elisabeth, née Böhm was born in Riga in Latvia. When she got divorced ( he was 14 ), he went with his mother to Berlin. There he took composition lessons. In 1791 he was at one of the Count Oborský the position of court composer and music director. Just one year later he celebrated in Berlin initial success with the cantata Contimar and Zora and the operetta The necromancy. He went in 1793 - with a scholarship of the Count - to Vienna to take lessons with Antonio Salieri and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger. In 1795 he made ​​the acquaintance of Ludwig van Beethoven, who studied with the same musicians. This year, he stood in front of the Oratory Gioas, Rè di Giuda, in which Beethoven first publicly made ​​its appearance in Vienna as a piano player. His growing reputation as a composer in 1796 won him a job at the Prince Franz Joseph Maximilian von Lobkowitz at Castle Raudnitz and castle Eisenberg ( Jezeří ) in Chomutov in West Bohemia with economic security and social standing. On May 9, 1803 he married the Viennese St. Augustine's Church Franziska force, who was born in 1784 daughter of the cellist Anton Kraft; the couple had three sons. One of the sons was the Franzensbader spa doctor Paul Cartellieri.

With Beethoven Cartellieri remained friends until his untimely death.

Works

Instrumental

  • Divertimento in E flat major and No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3
  • Clarinet Concerto No. 1 and No. 3
  • Clarinet Quartets Nos. 1 to 4 and D Major *
  • Flute Concerto in G major
  • Symphonies No. 1 in C minor, No. 2 in E flat major, No. 3 and No. 4
  • Quartets for Brass
  • 1 String Trio

Oratories

  • Gioas, Rè di Giuda (opera sacra ) (Vienna, 1795)
  • Per celebrar la festività natale ( Christmas Oratorio ) - Libretto: Luigi Prividali (Vienna, 1806)
  • La purificatione di Maria Virgine (Prague, 1807)

Operas

  • The necromancy (1793)
  • Anton (1796 )
  • Il Secreto (1804 )
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