[Sheet music] Joseph Leopold Eybler (1765-1846) - Missa Sancti Mauritii (1827)
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Composer: Joseph Leopold Eybler (1765-1846)
Work: Missa Sancti Mauritii (1827)
Software: Sibelius + Instruments samples
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Sheet music (pdf): https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/d/df/Mh-EyMaur-Partitur.pdf
Sheet music (xml): https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/89/Mh-EyMaur-Partitur.mxl
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Joseph (Josef) Leopold, Edler von Eybler
(Schwechat, nr Vienna, 8 February 1765 - Vienna, 24 July 1846)
Austrian composer. He received his first music lessons from his father, a choir director and schoolteacher in Schwechat. By the age of six he was able to perform a piano concerto for a visiting Viennese official, who recommended him for musical training to the choir school at the Stephansdom (where his distantly related cousins Joseph and Michael Haydn had studied). From 1776 to 1779 he also took lessons in composition from Albrechtsberger. In 1782 the choir school was temporarily dissolved and Eybler began legal studies at the university, but when a fire destroyed the home of his family later that year he was left without financial support, and had to earn his living as a musician. During several difficult years of apprenticeship Joseph Haydn helped him as a friend and teacher; in 1787 Haydn recommended three of Eybler's piano sonatas to the publisher Artaria. Eybler was also befriended by Mozart, who commissioned him to help coach the singers for the first performance of Così fan tutte. On this occasion Eybler experienced the intrigues of the opera house, which, he later confessed, determined him against a career as a theatre composer. Towards the end of his life Mozart came into even closer contact with Eybler, and seems to have greatly valued his honesty, modesty and devotion. Eybler later wrote: ‘I had the good fortune to keep his friendship without reservation until he died, and carried him, put him to bed and helped to nurse him during his last painful illness’ (AMZ, 1826).
After Mozart's death his widow commissioned the completion of his Requiem to Eybler. However, after completing the instrumentation of large parts of the Sequence he was apparently hindered by respect and awe from continuing the ‘Lacrimosa’, and having added only about ten notes to the soprano part he gave up the task, which then passed to Süssmayr. He later presented the Court Library with those parts of Mozart's autograph which were still in his possession. In 1792 Eybler was appointed choir director at the Carmelite church in Vienna, and then in 1794 went in the same capacity to the more famous Schottenkloster, retaining the post for 30 years. In 1801 he was also appointed court music teacher, possibly on the recommendation of Joseph Haydn and his special patroness, the Empress Maria Theresa. At her request Eybler wrote in 1803 his Requiem in C minor. It was perhaps the success of this work which led to his appointment in 1804 as deputy Hofkapellmeister under Salieri. In 1810 he was commissioned by the emperor to compose the massive oratorio Die vier letzten Dinge, the text of which Joseph Sonnleithner had originally written for Haydn. With Antonio Salieri's retirement in 1824 Eybler succeeded him as Hofkapellmeister. His later conservatism is reflected in his refusal in 1825 to allow the performance of the mass in A by Schubert (he afterwards remarked that he had found the work interesting but too difficult and not to the emperor's taste). In 1833 he suffered a stroke (ironically while conducting Mozart's Requiem) which left him unable to continue his duties at court. In his final years, which he spent with his family, he received numerous honours from foreign academic bodies, and in 1835 was raised to the nobility by the emperor. #ClassicalMusic