Anton Zimmermann
Anton Zimmermann (25 December 1741 in Široká Niva – 16 October 1781 in Bratislava) was a Silesian-born Slovak composer and contemporary of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Zimmermann spent most of his career in Bratislava, then capital of Hungary, where he worked as a composer, violinist, conductor, and artist manager. His music has been recorded by, among others, the Musica Aeterna Soloists for the Naxos record label.
Anton Zimmermann
- Born
- Anton Zimmermann was born on 25 December 1741. · Široká Niva.
- Died
- Anton Zimmermann died in 1781. · Bratislava.
- Occupation
- composer · organist · violinist · conductor · chapelmaster · musician
- Fields
- classical music · liturgical music
- Languages
- German · Italian
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Anton Zimmermann (25 December 1741 in Široká Niva – 16 October 1781 in Bratislava) was a Silesian-born Slovak composer and contemporary of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Zimmermann spent most of his career in Bratislava, then capital of Hungary, where he worked as a composer, violinist, conductor, and artist manager. His music has been recorded by, among others, the Musica Aeterna Soloists for the Naxos record label.
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1741
Anton Zimmermann was born on 25 December 1741.
1781
Anton Zimmermann died on 16 October 1781.
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Anton Zimmermann was born at Široká Niva.
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Anton Zimmermann died at Bratislava.
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- 1.Breitenau (tschechisch 'Široká Niva') ist eine Ortschaft mit 550 Einwohnern (2024) heute im schlesisch-mährischen Bezirk Freudenthal (tsch. Bruntál) in der Tschechischen Republik gelegen.
- 2.Es handelt sich hierbei um Bischof Hermann Hannibal von Blümegen
- 3.Preßburger Zeitung vom 24. November 1773, S. 3; difmoe.eu.
- 4.HOASM: Anton Zimmermann.
- 5.Preßburger Zeitung, 24. Oktober 1781, S. 6 f.; difmoe.eu.
- 6.Der „alte“ Nikolai-Friedhof im Schloßgrund wurde zum Ende der 1780er Jahre vermutlich auf Geheiß Kaiser Joseph II. aufgelöst. 1784 wurde ein neuer Friedhof gleichen Namens im Stadtviertel Zuckermantel eröffnet.
- 7.Zuzana Godárová. Doppelter runder Jahrestag von Anton Zimmermann – Kapellmeister von Kardinal Joseph Batthyány. Pressburger Kipferl. 2023-01-18.
- 8.Austin Glatthorn. Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire: The German Musical Stage at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century. 2022. 978-1-316-51249-4.
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Anton Zimmermann is recorded with the occupation chapelmaster. Classed in the genre liturgical music. Recorded as composer, organist, violinist, conductor and chapelmaster.
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