Maria Theresia von Paradis

(1759-1824)

"Count Potocki" (1780), oil on canvas, 304 x 218 cm, of the painter Jacques-Louis David, contemporary of Paradis (Muzeum Narodowc, Warsaw)

The musician Maria Theresia von Paradis (Paradies), wrote instrumental and vocal music; was born in Vienna on the 15th May 1759, the same year of the composers Darcis, Devienne, Duquesnoy, Haeffner, Leite, Propiac, Rellstab. Died in Vienna on the first February 1824

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of late Baroque

Maria Theresia von Paradis

OPERE

"Ariadne und Bacchus" was performed in Laxenburg on the 20th of June 1791

"Der Schulkandidat" was performed on the 5th of December 1792 in Vienna

"Rinaldo und Alcina, Die Insel der Verführung" was performed on the 30th of June 1797 in Praga (Ständetheater)

LIEDER

"Morgenlied eines armen Mannes", published in 1784, text of Johann Timotheus Hermes (1738-1821)

"Da eben seinen Lauf vollbracht", text of Friedrike Magdalena Jerusalem (1756-1836)

"Die Schäferin", published in 1786, text of Johann Nikolaus Götz (1721-1781)

"Lenore", text of Gottfried August Bürger (1747-1794)

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