Joseph Weigl

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Joseph Weigl; Lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1829

Joseph Weigl (28 March 1766 – 3 February 1846) was an Austrian composer and conductor, born in Eisenstadt, Hungary, Austrian Empire.

The son of Joseph Franz Weigl (1740–1820), the principal cellist in the orchestra of the Esterházy family, he studied music under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. He became Kapellmeister at the in Vienna in 1792, and from 1827 to 1838 was vice-Kapellmeister of the court.

Weigl composed a number of operas, both Italian and German and in various genres, although most of his late works are pieces of sacred music. His best known work was the opera Die Schweizerfamilie (1809). He also set Emanuel Schikaneder's libretto Vestas Feuer (1805), after his close friend Ludwig van Beethoven had composed a single scene and then abandoned it.

He died in Vienna.

Operas[]

(first performed in Vienna, unless otherwise noted)

• , in one act, (1783)
• , opera in two acts (1788)
• , komische Oper in three acts (1790)
• , komische Oper in one act (1792)
• , komische Oper in two acts (1794)
• , play with songs in eight scenes (1794)
• , dramma giocoso in two acts (1794)
• , opera seria in three acts (1797)
• , dramma giocoso in two acts (1797)
• , play with songs in two acts (1798)
• , opera in two acts (1798)
• , in three acts (Schönbrunn 1800), also as Die Uniform (1805)
• Vestas Feuer, in two acts (1805)
• , opera in five acts (Laxenburg 1806)
• , in three acts (1807)
• , opera in one act (1807)
• Cleopatra, opera in two acts (Milan 1807)
• , opera in two acts (Milan 1808)
• , Singspiel in two acts (1808)
• Die Schweizer Familie, in three acts (1809)
• , opera in one act (1810)
• , operetta in one act (1810)
• , heroisch-komische Oper in three acts (1812)
• , Singspiel in three acts (1813)
• , opera in three acts (1814)
• , opera in two acts (Milan 1815)
• , in two acts (1819)
• , opera in one act (1818)
• , heroische Oper in three acts (1820)
• , Singspiel in one act (1821)
• , opera in one act (1821)
• , grosse Oper in two acts (1823)

Further reading[]

• Warrack, John and (1992), The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5.

External links[]

Wikisource has the text of a 1905 New International Encyclopedia article about "Joseph Weigl".

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