Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg

Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg ( born January 10, 1760 Sachsenflur in Umpfertal; † January 27, 1802 in Stuttgart ) was a German composer and conductor.

Life

Born the son of a Duke of Württemberg's valet, he joined at the age of ten years in the High School Charles in Stuttgart, initially to obtain an education in the art of sculpture. Because of his outstanding musical talent, however, he subsequently received a musical education. His teachers were, among others, Johann Friedrich Seubert and Eberhard Malterre, in which he received cello lessons, as well as the Stuttgart Kapellmeister Agostino Poli, who taught him in composition. On Charles school he met Friedrich Schiller know. Both became friends, later set to music Zumsteeg many of his poems.

In 1781 Zumsteeg was released from the Charles school and got a job as a cellist in the court orchestra. Four years later, he served as a teacher at the High School Karl. In 1791 he was appointed head of the German music at the court theater and was in this context also director of music and facial expressions Institute of High Karlsschule. A year later the title of the Duke's concert master, he was awarded and he succeeded Polis as Kapellmeister. Zumsteeg died in 1802 at the age of 42 years at a stroke.

His compositions include operas and choral music. He is said to have also a not inconsiderable influence on the development of German art song. Influenced by his ballads were especially the later works of Schubert and Loewe.

Zumsteeg is the father born on December 9, 1796 Emilie Zumsteeg, a force acting in Stuttgart composer, choir director and music teacher.

Works

Operas

  • The Tatar Law (1780 )
  • Haunted Island (1798 )
  • Elbondocani (1803 )

Melodrama

  • The Peacock Festival ( 1801)

Ballads

  • Leonore
  • The pastor's daughter of pigeons grove
  • The Penitent
  • The Abduction
  • Song of the loyalty
  • Ritter Toggenburg
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