Johann Peter Salomon

Johann Peter Salomon ( baptized February 20, 1745 in Bonn, † November 25, 1815 in London) was a violinist, composer, conductor and Musikimpresario.

Life

From 1758 to 1765 Salomon was a violinist in the court orchestra in Bonn electoral before he became concertmaster of the orchestra of Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of Frederick the Great, in Rheinberg in the Mark Brandenburg. After the dissolution of the chapel, Solomon went to London in 1781, where he was a concert entrepreneur later gained particularly as a quartet player and celebrity. In 1790 he sought to Joseph Haydn in Vienna, and was instrumental in having both periods ( 1791/92 and 1794 /95) in London responsible. At the first travel Haydn wrote his symphonies No. 93 to 98, the symphonies 100 to No. 104 While all composed during his second stay in London, where, premiered symphonies are called London symphonies, is ultimately the - but not by Haydn derived - Title Salomon Symphony, as a kind of epitaph for the organizer of Haydn's London stays. It was also Salomon stimulator and violin soloist in Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante single B- flat major, Hob I: 105 for Violin, Cello, Oboe and Bassoon, during Haydn's first trip to London in 1792 was created.

With Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Peter Salomon was known from Bonner days. The families Beethoven and Salomon were friends and neighbors in the Bonngasse. Although Salomon left Bonn before Beethoven was born, but returned a few times to visit, upon which the composer made ​​his acquaintance. 1815 Beethoven turned to Salomon with the request to give him for his works a London publisher (→ see web link).

Today, Salomon is best known as the organizer of concerts. He came into possession of a copy of a biblical libretto of an otherwise not known Lidley (or Lindley ), which he passed on to Haydn, and processed it in his oratorio The Creation.

In addition, it is assumed that he gave the name of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony 41 Symphony.