Johann Baptist Henneberg

Johann Baptist Henneberg (5 December^[1] 1768 in Vienna – 27 November^[2] 1822 ibid) was an Austrian composer, pianist, organist and Kapellmeister.

Career[]

From 1790 to 1801 Henneberg was Kapellmeister at the Theater auf der Wieden, then until 1803 at the Theater an der Wien. Later he was employed as an organist by the prince Nikolaus II, Prince Esterházy in Eisenstadt, where he also conducted opera performances. From 1814, Henneberg was organist at the Hofkirche in Vienna, and from 1818 to 1822 also in the Imperial Court Music Chapel.

Henneberg played a decisive role in the rehearsal of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. After Mozart himself conducted the premiere on 30 September and 1 October 1791, Henneberg also took over the direction of the following performances. Henneberg also created several operas himself, which enjoyed great popularity at the time.

In 1797 he composed together with Ludwig van Beethoven menuets and allemandes for a mask ball of the Pensionsgesellschaft bildender Künstler, which was performed on 26 November 1797 in the Großer Redoutensaal der Wiener Hofburg.

Work (Operas)[]

• Der Stein der Weisen, together with Benedikt Schack, Franz Xaver Gerl, Emanuel Schikaneder and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered 11 September 1790 in Theater auf der Wieden (and also produced by Bampton Classical Opera in 2002)
• Der redliche Landmann, 1792
•  [de], 1793
• Die Eisenkönigin, 1793
• Die Waldmänner, 1793
• Der Scherenschleifer, 1795
• Das Jägermädchen, 1798
• Konrad Langbart von Friedburg, 1799
• Mina und Peru, 1799

Further reading[]

• Peter Branscombe and David J. Buch, “Henneberg, Johann Baptist,” Grove music online.
• Constantin von Wurzbach: Henneberg, Johann Baptist. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 8. Theil. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien 1862, S. 304 f. (Digitalisat).
• (1905), "Henneberg, Johann Baptist", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 50, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 191–192
• Robert Haas, Wiener Musiker vor und um Beethoven, Wien-Prag-Leipzig 1927
• "Henneberg Johann Bapt.". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 2, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 273 f. (Direct links to "p. 273", "p. 274") (with false life data)

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