Joseph Beer (clarinetist)

Johann Joseph Beer, also Boer and Paer ( born May 18, 1744 Green Forest, Bohemia, † October 28, 1812 in Berlin, according to other sources 1811 in Berlin and Potsdam) was a Bohemian composer and clarinetist.

Life and work

Beer initially worked during the Seven Years' War as a bugler and trumpeter in kk Army. He was then about 20 years in France as a clarinetist in the Garde du corps du roi and the Duke of Orleans. As of 1784, clarinetist worked as a chamber musician in St. Petersburg. In 1791 Berry played music during a trip to Vienna with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 1792 Beer went to Prussia and worked until his death as a royal chamber musician in Potsdam and Berlin. On February 16, 1809 was the 65 -year-old a concert in Leipzig, which was noted approvingly by the audience and the critics.

Beer is the creator of the art even clarinet game. His compositional work consists of several concertos, duos and Arietta with Variations.

He is often identified with the clarinetist Franz Joseph Beer (1770-1819), with whom he is not related confused. To distinguish between the two clarinetists by main effect places Johann Joseph Beer was called in musicology as Berlin Beer, Franz Joseph Beer, however, as Wallerstein Beer and Beer as Vienna.

Compositions

• Concerto for clarinet N ° 1