Joseph Panny

Joseph Panny ( born October 23, 1794 in Kollmitzberg, market town in the must Ardagger quarter, Lower Austria, † September 7, 1838 in Mainz ) was an Austrian composer, violinist and singer of the 19th century.

Life

Panny was the son of the schoolmaster of Kollmitzberg Panny Jacob (1754-1827), who was also the choir director there and gave his son his first music lessons. Joseph Panny 1813 headmaster in Greinburg, but went to two years to Vienna and gave up his teaching career at. In Vienna he took lessons on the violin, the piano and took voice lessons. At Joseph Eybler he received lessons in composition. He was a member of the Viennese literary society of Ludlamshöhle. The collection Patriotic Association of Artists, which was published in the years 1823 and 1824 in the Viennese music publisher Cappi & Diabelli in two volumes, contains a variation of the Diabelli Variations by Joseph Panny.

1828 Panny was in Vienna discovered by Nicolo Paganini, which henceforth took him to joint concert tours. Together they composed the tone poem La Tempesta. Panny also wrote millfiori variations on Paganini's Canzonette. In the 1830s Panny went to Germany, gave concerts in Munich and other cities in southern Germany and settled in Mainz. From there, he made ​​extensive concert tours through Germany, Sweden, Norway and England. In Christiana, now Oslo, he also worked as a music director. After his return to Mainz, where he founded a music school, where he also taught the English composer Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795-1856) in composition.

Works

Panny wrote three masses, a requiem, cantatas, the opera The Maid of Rügen, a piano trio, string quartets, violin pieces, a clarinet sonata and men's choirs and numerous songs.

• Six Songs for four male voices, 1831
• Favorite waltzes for piano on the chorus singing of autumn on the Rhine No. 411 Schott, Mainz / Paris / Antwerp 1835.