Franz Xaver Gebel
Franz Xaver Gebel (1787 – 3 May 1843) was a German composer, music teacher, and conductor. Gebel was born in Fürstenau, near Breslau, Silesia. He studied under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and Abbé Vogler, and became Kapellmeister at Leopoldstadt in Vienna in 1810, then worked at a succession of theatres in Pest and Lemberg.
Franz Xaver Gebel
- Born
- 1787 · Milin.
- Died
- 1843 · Moscow.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Occupation
- composer · pianist · music educator · conductor · teacher
- Fields
- music · concert · piano cycle
- Teachers
- Johann Georg Albrechtsberger · Georg Joseph Vogler
- Languages
- German · Russian
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He moved to Moscow in 1817, where he would remain until his death in 1843. He taught piano, and became a significant figure in Moscow's musical life, teaching notable figures such as Nikolai Rubinstein and Alexandre Villoing, and organizing string quartet performances from 1829 to 1835. He wrote operas, a mass, four symphonies, overtures, string quintets and quartets, and many piano pieces, among other works.
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Franz Xaver Gebel (1787 – 17 April 1843) was a composer, pianist and conductor. Franz Xaver Gebel died on 17 April 1843 in Moscow.
Training under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and Georg Joseph Vogler is recorded. Nikolai Rubinstein is recorded as having studied under Franz Xaver Gebel. The recorded working language is German and Russian. The field of work recorded is music, concert and piano cycle.
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Franz Xaver Gebel was born in 1787 in Milín. According to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the recorded place of activity of Franz Xaver Gebel is Vienna.
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- 1.Theodore Baker and Alfred Remy. Gebel, Franz Xaver. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. 301. 1919.
- 2.Philip S. Taylor. Anton Rubinstein: A Life in Music. Indiana University Press. 15. 2007. 978-0-253-34871-5.
- 3.Tully Potter. The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet. Cambridge University Press. 54. 2003. 0-521-00042-4.
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