Joseph Leopold Eybler (1765-1846) - Victimæ paschali laudes (1817)
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Composer: Joseph Leopold Eybler (1765-1846)
Work: Nro5 | Graduale | de | Resurrectione Domini | Victimae pascali | a | Soprano Conto | 4 Voci Ripni | 2 Violini | Viole | 2 Oboi | 2 Fagotti | 2 Tromboni | Organo | e | Violone (1817), HerEy 58
Software: Sibelius + Instruments samples + Choir samples (soprano)
World Premiere: Yes
Editions Esser-Skala: https://edition.esser-skala.at/
Sheet music (edited by Wolfgang Esser-Skala): https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/b/bd/IMSLP940443-PMLP1475008-full_score.pdf
Sheet music (xml): https://www.mediafire.com/file/q6a1ousumdlyc7i/EYBLER-VictimaePaschali.xml/file
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Joseph (Josef, Giuseppe) Leopold (Edler von) Eybler [Eibler, Eubler]
(Schwechat, Vienna, 8 February 1765 - Vienna, 24 July 1846)
Austrian composer. After early musical studies with his father, a choir director and schoolteacher in Schwechat, he enrolled at St. Stephen’s choir school, where his distantly related cousins Joseph and Michael Haydn had studied. From 1776 to 1779 he also took lessons in composition from Johann Georg Albrechtsberger. In 1782 the choir school was temporarily dissolved and he began legal studies at the university but when a fire destroyed his family home he had to earn his living as a musician. During several difficult years of apprenticeship Joseph Haydn helped him. He was also befriended by Mozart, who commissioned him to help coach the singers for the first performance of Così fan tutte. 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’. In 1792 he became choir director at the Carmelite Church, and two years later obtained a position at the Schottenkloster, retaining the post for 30 years. In 1803 at Empress Maria Theresa request he wrote his Requiem in c-moll. It was perhaps the success of this work which led to his appointment in 1804 as deputy Hofkapellmeister under Salieri. After Salieri's retirement in 1824 he succeeded him as Hofkapellmeister. In 1833 he ironically suffered a stroke while conducting Mozart's Requiem which left him unable to continue his duties at court. He spent his final years with his family, receiving numerous honours and being raised to the nobility by the emperor in 1835. As a composer, his works include two operas, 33 Masses, 37 graduals, 34 offertories, four antiphons, four oratorios, seven Te Deums, 11 hymns, five other sacred works, 16 Lieder and numerous choral pieces and canons as well as three symphonies, six sinfonia concertantes, a clarinet concerto, a divertimento, over 100 dances, a sextet, four quintets, nine quartets, and six sonatas. His music is characterized by bold harmonies and a sense of drama expressed in orchestral color.