Franz Anton Hoffmeister

(1754-1812)

Franz Anton Hoffmeister, author of instrumental and vocal music, was born in Rothenburg am Neckar on the 12nd May 1754, the same year of the composers Apell, Caruso, Dutillieu, Hinner, Kaffka, Marinelli, Palma, Rauzzini, Teyber. He died in Vienna on the 9th February 1812

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of late Baroque

OPERE

"Der Alchimist" has been put on the stage in carnival 1790 in Vienna

"Die bezauberte Jagd" has been put on the stage in carnival 1790 in Vienna

"Der Schiffbruch" has been put on the stage in carnival 1792 in Vienna

"Der Haushahn" has been put on the stage in Vienna in carnival 1795

"Der Königssohn aus Ithaka" was performed on the 27th of June 1795 in Vienna (Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden (Wiedner Theater)

"Die Belagerung von Cythere" was performed on the 19th of Jenuary 1796 in Vienna (Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden (Wiedner Theater)

"Cythère assiégée" has been represented in Gluck

"Rosalinde, oder Die Macht der Feen" was performed on the 23rd of April 1796 in Vienna

"Der erste Kuss" was performed on the 7th of February 1797 in Vienna

"Liebe macht kurzen Process, oder Die Heyrath auf gewisse Art" has been represented in 1801 in Vienna

LIEDER

"An die Nachtigall", text of Karoline Christiane Louise Rudolphi (1754-1811)

"Blind Guitarist" (1778), oil on canvas, 260 x 311 cm, of the painter Francisco Goya, contemporary of Hoffmeister (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

Franz Anton Hoffmeister

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