Anton Schweitzer (6 June 1735 in Coburg – 23 November 1787 in Gotha) was a German composer of operas, who was affiliated with Abel Seyler's theatrical company.
He was a child prodigy who obtained the patronage of the duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, who sent him to study with Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht at the court of Bayreuth in 1758, and then sent him to Italy (1764–66), and made him Kapellmeister. With the dismissal of the court orchestra at Hildburghausen, he was enabled to tour Europe with the Seyler theatrical company from 1769. His most notable work is the opera Alceste (1773), with a German libretto by Christoph Martin Wieland, among the early German-language operas.[1]
AntonSchweitzer (6 June 1735 in Coburg – 23 November 1787 in Gotha) was a German composer of operas, who was affiliated with Abel Seyler's theatrical...
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Horace Coignet. A different musical setting of Rousseau's Pygmalion by AntonSchweitzer was performed in Weimar in 1772, and Goethe wrote of it approvingly...
to Joseph Addison’s libretto; Rosamund, a 1780 German Singspiel by AntonSchweitzer to a libretto by Christoph Martin Wieland; Rosmonda d'Inghilterra ("Rosamund...
Goethe's singspiel) include Philipp Christoph Kayser (1776), AntonSchweitzer (1777), Joseph Anton Steffan (1779), Johann Friedrich Reichardt in 1780 and in...
a 1767 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck Alceste (Schweitzer), a 1773 opera by AntonSchweitzer Alceste (Strungk), a 1680 opera by Nicolaus Adam Strungk...
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the National Theatre had avoided musical theatre, Seyler appointed AntonSchweitzer as music director, charged with adding opera to the spoken repertory...
librettos such as Wahl des Hercules ("Choice of Hercules") and Alceste by AntonSchweitzer. In 1773, he founded Der teutsche Merkur, which under his editorship...
Maximilian Klinger Ariadne auf Naxos by Georg Anton Benda Medea by Georg Anton Benda Alceste by AntonSchweitzer (composer) and Christoph Martin Wieland (libretto)...
dexterity and was highly sought after by such notable composers as AntonSchweitzer, Ignaz Holzbauer, and Antonio Salieri to sing the lead roles in their...
composer (died 1821) June 1 – James Lyon I, composer (died 1794) June 6 – AntonSchweitzer, opera composer (died 1787) July 10 – Giovanni Bertati, librettist...
Christoph Willibald Gluck: Telemaco 2012 Enno Poppe: IQ. Testbatterie AntonSchweitzer: Rosamunde 2013 Georg Friedrich Haas: Thomas Tommaso Traetta: Ifigenia...
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also trained her voice and worked at the court theatre of Weimar. AntonSchweitzer composed the opera Alceste for her, and its librettist Christoph Martin...
operas by Hiller, Georg Benda, AntonSchweitzer and other composers. A milestone of German opera was AntonSchweitzer's Alceste, with a libretto by Wieland...
Joseph Schwantner (born 1943) Wolfgang von Schweinitz (born 1953) AntonSchweitzer (1735–1787) Heinrich Schwemmer (1621–1696) Laura Schwendinger (born...
guides like "You'll Love New York" to biographies such as "Story of Albert Schweitzer." Her contributions have earned acknowledgment from various quarters,...
Alchymist, oder Der Liebesteufel Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672): Dafne AntonSchweitzer (1735–1787): Alceste, Die Dorfgala, Rosamunde Laura Schwendinger (1962–...
Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. May 28 – The opera Alceste by AntonSchweitzer with German language libretto by poet Christoph Martin Wieland is premièred...
Richard Strauss. In 2008, she performed the title role of Alceste by AntonSchweitzer on the occasion of the reopening after the fire of the Duchess Anna...
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