Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766-1803) - Sinfonia C-Dur (c.1788)

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Composer: Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766-1803)
Work: Sinfonia C-Dur (c.1788)
Performers: ConcіIіum musіcum Wіen; PаuI Angеrеr (1927-2017, conductor)

Engraving: Kaiserlich Franziskische Akademie - Gezicht op het Stadtpalais Liechtenstein aan een plein te Wenen
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Franz Xaver (Dolcevillico, Francesco Saverio) Süssmayr [Süssmayer]
(Schwanenstadt, 1766 - Vienna, 17 September 1803)

Austrian composer. He studied music as a boy with his father, a teacher and choirmaster in Schwanenstadt. In 1779 he moved to the monastery school at Kremsmünster and later studied philosophy and law at the Ritterakademie there. While a student he participated in services at the cathedral as a singer, violinist and organist, and took composition lessons from local teachers. Beginning in or around 1785 he composed several operas that were performed in the monastery theatre. In the late 1780s he moved to Vienna, where he taught music privately and performed in the Hofkapelle. He began occasional studies in composition with Mozart in 1790 or 1791, subsequently working for him as a copyist, almost certainly assisting him in composing the secco recitative for La clemenza di Tito and completing the Requiem at Constanze Mozart's request. After Mozart's death he studied with Salieri. Several of Süssmayr's first operatic projects in Vienna were undertaken for Schikaneder's Theater auf der Wieden; then, in 1792, he became harpsichordist and acting Kapellmeister for the Nationaltheater. Two years later, in May 1794, he was made Kapellmeister of the Viennese court's newly re-established National-Singspiel in the Kärntnertortheater. In 1798 Süssmayr applied to succeed Pierre Duttilou as court composer in Vienna but was not offered the post; he served as Kapellmeister of the National-Singspiel until his death, composing a series of German works for the national stage. He also wrote cantatas (for performance in Vienna and Kremsmünster) and other sacred and instrumental works. #ClassicalMusic