[Sheet music] Ambros Matthäus Rieder (1771-1855) - Requiem (d-moll) für 4 Singstimmen (c.1818)

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Composer: Ambros Matthäus Rieder (1771-1855)
Work: Requiem (d-moll) für 4 Singstimmen (c.1818) (instrumental version)
Software: Sibelius + Instruments samples
World Premiere: Yes
Sheet music (pdf): https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/6/61/Mh-RiedReq-Requiem_Partitur.pdf
Sheet music (xml): https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/b/b0/Mh-RiedReq-Requiem_Partitur.mxl
Info about sheet music recovering project: https://i.ibb.co/hML4xyJ/HAYDN-M-3.jpg

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Ambros Matthäus Rieder
(Döbling bei Wien, 10 October 1771 - Perchtoldsdorf, 19 November 1855)

Austrian teacher, composer and organist. He received elementary lessons from his father, a school teacher in Döbling near Vienna, as well as lessons in singing, violin and piano from his grandfather Thomas Rieder, who directed the choral music in Wilfersdorf. He received lessons in basso continuo and composition from the choirmaster in Lichtental, Karl Martinides. At the age of 13 he was already composing a mass. He became a student of the cathedral orchestra leader of St. Stephan (St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna), Leopold Hofmann and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger. He perfected himself by studying the works of Johann Philipp Kirnberger, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg and Johann Joseph Fux. He played the violin in the Vienna Augarten Concerts and worked as a violist in the Schuppanzigh Quartet. He was personally acquainted with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Nepomuk Hummel and was friends with Ferdinand Schubert (the brother of Franz Schubert) and Simon Sechter. He worked as a school teacher in Döbling from 1797 and from 1802 until his death as a school teacher, organist and choir director in Perchtoldsdorf. He lost a large part of his property during the French Wars in 1805 and 1809, which severely affected the Perchtoldsdorf market. The poor years from 1813 to 1819 left the farmers poor. The school teacher, who was dependent on payments in kind, felt this. Nevertheless, it was precisely at this time that his most beautiful church compositions were created. He was the father of five sons and one daughter. His second oldest son, Wilhelm August Rieder, was an academic painter and the most famous portraitist of Franz Schubert. His other sons and daughter remained committed to the teaching profession. #ClassicalMusic