Joseph Umstatt
Joseph Umstatt | |
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| Born | February 5, 1711 |
| Died | May 24, 1762 (aged 51) |
| Occupations | Composer, kapellmeister, musician |
Joseph Umstatt (5 February 1711 in Vienna – 24 May 1762 in Bamberg) was an Austrian composer and kapellmeister of the early Classical era.
Life
[edit]Joseph Umstatt grew up in Vienna, and may have been a pupil of Johann Joseph Fux.[1] From 1727 to 1730 he studied at the Jesuit College in Tyrnau, one of the distinguished centres of music education in the then-Kingdom of Hungary (today Trnava in Slovakia). He was a harpsichordist and organist at the chapel of Imre Esterhazy (Archbishop of Esztergom) in Pressburg (Bratislava), and later under the Count of Dietrichstein near Brünn (Brno). The Saxon Prime Minister Heinrich von Brühl engaged Umstatt as Hofkapellmeister shortly before his death in 1762.[2]
Works
[edit]Umstatt wrote baroque harpsichord music. He composed sacred music such as oratorios, masses (e.g. the "Missa Natalitia") and requiems, as well as secular musical dramas. However, the majority of his work consists of symphonies, concertos, and chamber music. Johann Ulrich Haffner included one of Umstatt's sonatas in a compilation of works for keyboard.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Blanken, Christine; Motnik, Marko (2026-03-18). Bach und Wien: Zur Bach-Rezeption in der Habsburgermonarchie (in German). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. pp. 56, note 3. ISBN 978-3-487-17222-4.
- ↑ Emery, Frederic Barclay (1928). The Violin Concerto Through a Period of Nearly 300 Years: Covering about 3300 Concertos, with Brief Biographies of 1000 Composers ... Violin Literature Publishing Company. p. 488.
- ↑ Newman, William S. (2018-01-01). A History of the Sonata Idea: Volume 2: The Sonata in the Classic Era. UNC Press Books. p. 373. ISBN 978-1-4696-4373-1.
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