János Fusz

Johann Evangelist foot (Hungarian: János Fusz ) ( born June 15, baptized on June 16, 1777 in Tolna, Hungary, † March 9, 1819 in Buda ) was a Hungarian composer and conductor.

Life

Foot was 1801 piano teacher in Bratislava, later studying with Johann Georg Albrechtsberger in Vienna in 1806 and returned back to Bratislava. Through the good offices of his friend Joseph Krüchten the festivities marking the name day of Erzherzogpalatins Joseph was born on March 19, 1806 in Music furnace of foot under listed in the two girlfriends Beethoven participated - the sisters Josephine and Therese Brunsvik Brunsvik. Beethoven himself had rejected the composition of the hard music.

Approximately 1812 to 1815 he was again in Vienna, where he is now wrong with Beethoven. On December 8, 1812 immediately after a visit to Beethoven, he reported to the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel of an interview with the composer about his 7th Symphony and the Symphony No. 8, both of which had not yet been heard in concert. Then he again lived mainly in Bratislava.

Foot was temporarily apparently in financial trouble, because in February 1816 was published in Vienna a display in the " Johann walk from Bratislava, Kompositeur and conductor, resident at the Fish Place Nro. 759 " copies of his opera Romulus and Remus offered for sale. From Bratislava from, he also variously for the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung musical, so in February 1816 over the prestigious Pressburger music educators Heinrich Klein. In the same year he took over the post of Kapellmeister at the Theater in Bratislava.

The opera Romulus and Remus on a libretto by Georg Friedrich Treitschke was one of his best known works. Originally Treitschke had entrusted the libretto Beethoven, who decided to compose in December 1814. However, on unexplained way it came into the hands of feet, the Romulus and Remus first came to performance in Vienna on September 9, 1816.

Foot composed in most genres in which composers were active at the time, but it was only as a vocal composer, particularly of songs, highly regarded by his contemporaries.