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Franz Xaver Süssmayr ( German: Süßmayr ; sometimes written in English as Suessmayr ; 1766 – September 17, 1803 ) was an Austrian composer, now famous for his completion of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem.
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After three months of intense work, he predicted a position for Ceres in December 1801 — just about a year after its first sighting — and this turned out to be accurate within a half-degree when it was rediscovered by Franz Xaver von Zach on 31 December at Gotha, and one day later by Heinrich Olbers in Bremen.
* 1709 – Franz Xaver Richter, Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician ( d. 1789 )
There are two comprehensive editions of Palestrina's works: a 33 volume edition published by Breitkopf and Härtel, in Leipzig Germany between 1862 and 1894 edited by Franz Xaver Haberl, and a 34 volume edition published in the mid twentieth century, by Fratelli Scalera, in Rome, Italy edited by R. Casimiri and others.
Among these were Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, Josef Weigl ( 1766 – 1846 ), Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper de Ferguson ( 1768after 1824 ), Antonio Casimir Cartellieri, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart.
One of his professors was Franz Xaver Heller ( 1775 – 1840 ), author of the (" Flora of the Grand Duchy of Würzburg ", 1810 – 1811 ).
Solomon considers his three closest friends to have been Gottfried von Jacquin, Count August Hatzfeld, and Sigmund Barisani ; others included his older colleague Joseph Haydn, singers Franz Xaver Gerl and Benedikt Schack, and the horn player Joseph Leutgeb.
* Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, an astronomer, publishes The Tables of the Sun, an essential early work for navigation.
Franz and Süssmayr
A concerto in D major for basset clarinet was written for Stadler by Franz Xaver Süssmayr, which remains as two incomplete manuscripts.
A completion by Franz Xaver Süssmayr was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg, who had anonymously commissioned the piece for a requiem Mass to commemorate the February 14 anniversary of his wife's death.
Finally, on 17 September 1803, Franz Xaver Süssmayr died from the complications of tuberculosis himself
Slighted, ignored and then forgotten, Franz Xaver Süssmayr is as close to a non-entity as a composer can come.
Franz Xaver Süssmayr, best known for completing Mozart's unfinished Requiem, also composed several Turkish works, including operas and symphonies.
38, which is a set of variations on the Austrian Folkslied A Schisserl und a Reindl, is åll mein Kuchlg ' schirr, used in the play Der Kaufmannsbude ( 1796 ), with music by Johann Baptist Henneberg ( 1768 – 1822 ) and text by Schikaneder ; and in the play Der Marktschreyer ( 1799 ), with music by Franz Xaver Süssmayr ( 1766 – 1803 ) and text by Friedrich Karl Lippert.
In this context it is worth noting two other works written for Stadler and his instrument by composers closely linked to the Mozart – Stadler circle that used the extended range of Stadler's instrument: the clarinet concerto by Franz Xaver Süssmayr ( famous for having completed Mozart's Requiem ) and that by Joseph Leopold Eybler.
Although Mozart died before completing the requiem, Mozart's wife arranged for several other composers, most notably Franz Xaver Süssmayr, to complete the work in order to gain the remainder of the sum Walsegg had promised.
These included collaborations with other composers of the time: Der Spiegel von Arkadien with Mozart's assistant Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Der Tyroler Wastel with Mozart's posthumous brother-in-law Jakob Haibel, and a Magic Flute sequel called Das Labyrinth, with Peter von Winter.
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