Ignaz Assmayer
This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (October 2021) |
Ignaz Assmayer (11 February 1790 – 31 August 1862) was an Austrian composer of liturgical music. An organist at St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg, he lived in Vienna from 1815, and was in 1846 the conductor of the Court Orchestra. Assmayer was a friend of Franz Schubert.
Life
Assmayer was born at Salzburg. He studied under Andreas Brunmayr and Michael Haydn, and later, when he went to Vienna, he received further instruction from Joseph Leopold Eybler. In 1808 he was organist at St. Peter's in Salzburg, and here he wrote his oratorio "Die Sündfluth" (The Deluge) and his cantata "Worte der Weihe".
Some time after his move to Vienna, in 1815, he became choirmaster at the Schotten Kirche, and in 1825 was appointed imperial organist. After having served eight years as vice-choirmaster, he received in 1846 the appointment of second choir-master to the Court, as successor to Joseph Weigl. He died in Vienna.
Works
His principal oratorios, "Das Gelübde", "Saul und David", and "Sauls Tod", were repeatedly performed by the Tonkünstler-Societät, of which he was conductor for fifteen years. He also wrote fifteen masses, two requiems, a Te Deum, and various smaller church pieces. Of these, two oratorios, one mass, the requiems, and the Te Deum, and furthermore sixty secular compositions, comprising symphonies, overtures, pastorales, etc., were published.
In the 1820s, he was one of 50 composers to write a Variation on a theme of Anton Diabelli for Part II of the Vaterländischer Künstlerverein. Part I was devoted to the 33 variations supplied by Beethoven, which have gained an independent identity as his Diabelli Variations, Op. 120.
As to his style, Grove calls it correct and fluent, but wanting in both invention and force.
References
- Susanne Antonicek: Ignaz Assmayr (1790 – 1862). Biographie und Messenschaffen mit thematischen Katalog seiner Werke. Phil. Thesis. Vienna 2001.
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ignaz Assmayer". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
External links
- Ignaz Assmayer in Austria-Forum (in German) (at AEIOU)
- Information about the Masses in D and C[permanent dead link]
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Articles lacking in-text citations from October 2021
- All articles lacking in-text citations
- Articles containing German-language text
- Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference
- Articles incorporating text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference
- Articles with German-language sources (de)
- All articles with dead external links
- Articles with dead external links from January 2020
- Articles with permanently dead external links
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with BNE identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with ICCU identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with PLWABN identifiers
- Articles with CINII identifiers
- Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- Articles with RISM identifiers
- Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1790 births
- 1862 deaths
- 19th-century Austrian people
- 19th-century musicians
- Austrian male musicians
- Musicians from Salzburg
- 19th-century Austrian male musicians