Joseph Martin Kraus

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

Joseph Martin Kraus

(1756-1792)

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of late Baroque

Joseph Martin Kraus, who wrote music for orchestra, chamber and vocal music, was born in Miltenberg-am-Main on the 20th June 1756, the same year of the composers Ahlstrom (Åhlström), Boutmy, Gehot, Horzizky, Kunz, Lacépède, Linley, Mozart, Parigi, Reinagle, Righini, Schmiedt, Teyber. He died in Stoccolma on the 15th December 1792

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"Azire" was performed in 1778

"Proserpina" has been put on the stage in June 1781 in Ulriksdal

"Fintbergs Bröllop" has been performed in Stoccolma in Jenuary 1788

"Soliman II, eller De tre sultaninnorna" was performed on the 22nd of September 1789 in Stoccolma

"Äfventyraren, eller Resan till Månana ö" was performed on the 30th of Jenuary 1791 in Stoccolma

"Aeneas i Carthago" (Dido och Aeneas) was performed in Stoccolma on the 18th of November 1799

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