Florian Johann Deller
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Florian Johann Deller was an Austrian composer
and violinist.
. There he studied with Niccolo Jommelli
. Later he became assistant to the ballet master Jean Georges Noverre and composed operas and ballets. In 1769 he was appointed Concertmaster and Hofcompositeur. In 1771 he moved to Vienna. Deller died in 1773 in the Monastery Brothers of Mercy in Munich.
His compositional output consists mostly of opera, ballet music, sonatas and minuets. He enjoyed in his lifetime
high reputation as a composer. His works have been, among other things of Mozart and Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart
greatly appreciated. Many of his works are considered lost.
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and violinist.
Life
In 1751 he was a violinist at the court orchestra in StuttgartStuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
. There he studied with Niccolo Jommelli
Niccolò Jommelli
Niccolò Jommelli was an Italian composer. He was born in Aversa and died in Naples. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he made important changes to opera and reduced the importance of star singers.-Early life:Jommelli was born to Francesco Antonio Jommelli and...
. Later he became assistant to the ballet master Jean Georges Noverre and composed operas and ballets. In 1769 he was appointed Concertmaster and Hofcompositeur. In 1771 he moved to Vienna. Deller died in 1773 in the Monastery Brothers of Mercy in Munich.
His compositional output consists mostly of opera, ballet music, sonatas and minuets. He enjoyed in his lifetime
high reputation as a composer. His works have been, among other things of Mozart and Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart , was a German poet, born at Obersontheim in Swabia.He entered the university of Erlangen in 1758 as a student of theology. He led a dissolute life, and after two years' stay was summoned home by his parents...
greatly appreciated. Many of his works are considered lost.
Works
- Operas
- Il tamburo notturno, 1765
- Le Contese per amore, 1783
- Il Maestro di Capella, 1771
- La contadina nelle corte
- 5 other Comic Operas
- Ballets
- Admète et Alceste (Noverre), Stuttgart, 1761
- La mort d'Hercule (Noverre), Stuttgart, 1762
- Orfée et Euridice (Noverre), Stuttgart, 1763
- Der Sieg des Neptun (Noverre), Stuttgart, 1763
- Apollon et Daphne (Lauchery), Kassel, 1764
- Ballo di Alessandro (Noverre), Stuttgart, 1765
- Pan et Syrinx (Lauchery), Kassel, 1766
- Le feste d'Imeneo (Noverre), Stuttgart, 1766
- Enée et Lavinie (Noverre), Stuttgart 1761-1766
- Pigmalion ou La statuë animée (Lauchery), Kassel, 1767
- Titon et l'Aurore (Lauchery), Kassel, 1767
- La pauvre, after 1767
- La schiava liberata, Ludwigsburg, 1768
- Telephe et Isménie ou La mort d'Eurite, Kassel, 1768
- Hylas et Eglée, ou La fête d'amour (Lauchery), Kassel, 1769
- Ballo polonois, Stuttgart, 1770
- La constance, Stuttgart, 1770
- L'embarquement pour Cythère, ou Le triomphe de Venus, Kassel, 1770
- Le rival imaginaire, Mannheim, 1774;
- Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Der junge Werther), Pressburg, 1777
- La mariée de village, Kassel, 1784;
- 2 ballets to op Calliroe
- 1 without title
- Instrumental
- 6 Sonatas, 2 vn, vc, hpd, London, 1780
- Chaconne for pf
- 4 symphonies
- 2 flute concertos