Franz Xaver Süssmayr

This composer is well known almost exclusively for his brief association, during his student years, with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Franz Xaver Süssmayr occasionally spelled his last name “Süssmayer” and occasionally utilized an Italian edition, Francesco Saverio Dolcevillico. His dad, Franz Karl Süssmayr, was a instructor and choirmaster in Schwanenstadt, and offered the son his early lessons in performing, violin, and body organ. In 1779 Franz Xaver moved into the Kremsmünster monastery college like a boarder. He continued to study beliefs and law in the Ritterakademie in Kremsmünster in 1784-1787. He also discovered private composition educators and became a member of in musical shows in the monastery. He had written some compositions which were performed there. In 1788 he visited Vienna and arranged himself up as an exclusive music teacher. Seeking to research composition in higher depth, he enrolled as an exclusive college student with Mozart, who also employed him as an associate. When Mozart passed away in Dec of 1791, Süssmayr continuing his musical research with Antonio Salieri, who primarily taught him information on rating for voices. From 1792 Süssmayr found out are a harpsichordist and performing Kapellmeister of Vienna¹s Country wide Theater. Over the last 10 years of his brief life (he resided to be just two years more than Mozart do) he became well-known as a author of Singspiele in the custom of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute). Typically the most popular was Der Spiegel von Arkadien (1794). Both Beethoven and Paganini lent Süssmayr styles as the topics of variants. His chapel music was sung well in to the nineteenth hundred years in southern Germany and Austria. Nevertheless, his status survives almost specifically due to his conclusion of Mozart¹s last function, the Requiem K. 626. Süssmayr and Mozart¹s widow still left conflicting versions concerning how much from it each one of the two composers had written. The overall opinion among scholars can be that Mozart still left portions from the rating in draft type, with vocal parts and harmonies just. Süssmayr, within this bulk opinion, noticed the instrumentation to the section, and continued to compose the Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei. He maintained in his parts of the rating the same types of thematic links Mozart got used, displaying that he previously a deep knowledge of Mozart¹s structural taking into consideration the work. Additionally it is more than likely that he constructed the recitatives in Mozart¹s past due coronation opera, La Clemenza di Tito.