Ignaz von Seyfried
Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried (* August 15, 1776 Vienna, † August 26, 1841 ) was an Austrian conductor and stage composer of the early 19th century in Vienna.
Life
The information contained in his handwritten memoirs According Seyfried was the one piano student of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Jan Antonín Koželuh and on the other hand a composition pupil of Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and Peter von Winter. He died on August 26, 1841 at 22:00 clock.
From 1797 to 1801 he was Kapellmeister of Schikaneder 's theater in the open house until 1828 and the subsequent Theater an der Wien. He also conducted the first performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
Seyfried was known to his contemporaries as a music theorist and taught among others Franz von Suppe. Became famous for his book Ludwig van Beethoven's studies in thorough-bass, counterpoint and in the Compositionslehre of 1832, based on a bundle of manuscripts from the hand- written estate. Seyfried claims: " I have therefore endeavored rather to the most scrupulous fidelity, all right, and so ordered to give, as I found it; even the author's own words and phrases retain ". In fact, he has but so powerfully transformative intervention that Gustav Nottebohm, the original and reprint in 1872 compared, speaks of a fake: "Just the opposite of what Seyfried says is true. Seyfried has not sought to provide an accurate reproduction of his originals; he has fully reproduced neither accurate nor that he has, the author's own words and expressions ' for the most part changed [ ... ] has taken wrong, added marginal notes and important omitted. His book can therefore, considered in detail, make no claim to authenticity. The studies are not authentic, not a changeling, but a fake plant. "
Seyfried composed over one hundred stage works, including operas, musical plays, ballets and operas, as well as numerous sacred works - masses, motets, requiems, psalms, hymns, oratorios - and symphonies, overtures and chamber works. On the occasion of the performance of Mozart's Requiem at the funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven, he composed a Libera me after that does not belong to the liturgical texts of the Missa pro defunctis, it takes up the theme of Mozart's work on.
Writings
- Collected Ludwig van Beethoven's studies in thorough-bass, counterpoint and in the Compositionslehre from whose hand- written estate and issued 1st ed. Vienna: Haslinger 1832, 20 352 144 pp.
- 2 Auflg. , Revised and completed ed. by Henry Hugo Pierson, Leipzig: Schuberth, 1852 14 328 118 p MDZ
- See: Gustav Nottebohm: basso and composition in question manuscripts of Beethoven and Seyfried's book " Ludwig van Beethoven's studies in thorough bass " etc in: Beethoveniana, Leipzig: Peters 1872, pp. 154-203. Internet Archive