Johann Baptist Schenk
Illustration — Johann Baptist Schenk Johann Baptist Schenk (30 November 1753 – 29 December 1836) was an Austrian composer and teacher. Schenk was born in Wiener Neustadt. While still a boy, he composed songs, dances and symphonies, and became a proficient violinist and keyboard and wind instrument player.
Johann Baptist Schenk
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- Born
- 1753 · Wiener Neustadt.
- Died
- 1836 · Vienna.
- Nationality
- Austrian Empire
- Occupation
- composer · musician · music educator
- Fields
- music · music education · music composing · composed musical work
- Teachers
- Georg Christoph Wagenseil
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Johann Baptist Schenk Johann Baptist Schenk (30 November 1753 – 29 December 1836) was an Austrian composer and teacher. Schenk was born in Wiener Neustadt. While still a boy, he composed songs, dances and symphonies, and became a proficient violinist and keyboard and wind instrument player.
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In 1773 he went to Vienna to study with Georg Christoph Wagenseil. Beginning in 1777 he was composing religious works for Saint Stephen's Cathedral. In the 1780s he became a prolific composer of incidental music for plays and singspiele. Mozart was a good friend of Schenk and Beethoven was among his students in 1793–1794. Schenk died in Vienna aged 83. His best-known singspiel is Der Dorfbarbier which premiered in 1796. His other compositions include numerous cantatas, ten symphonies, several concertos (including a well-known one for harp), and five string quartets. In around 1823, he composed a variation on a waltz by Anton Diabelli (D 718), being one of the 51 composers who contributed to the Vaterländischer Künstlerverein. Schenk's Autobiographische Skizze (1830) mentions a few early works, now lost, but is factually unreliable; i.a. its gives his birth date as 30 November 1761.
Training under Georg Christoph Wagenseil is recorded. Ludwig van Beethoven is recorded as having studied under Johann Baptist Schenk. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is music, music education and music composing. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera.
Johann Baptist Schenk is recorded with the occupation music educator. Classed in the genre opera. Recorded as composer, musician and music educator.
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1753
Johann Baptist Schenk was born on 30 November 1761.
1836
Johann Baptist Schenk died on 29 November 1836.
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Wiener Neustadt.
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- 1.Barbara Boisits. Schenk, Johann Baptist. P14.
- 2.Taufeintrag veröffentlicht bei Matricula online. Siehe auch: .
- 3.Anton Stoll: Der Badener Schulmeister und sein Freund Mozart.
- 4.Vgl. Klaus Martin Kopitz, Rainer Cadenbach (Hrsg.) u. a.: Beethoven aus der Sicht seiner Zeitgenossen in Tagebüchern, Briefen, Gedichten und Erinnerungen. Band 2: Lachner – Zmeskall. Hrsg. von der Beethoven-Forschungsstelle an der Universität der Künste Berlin. Henle, München 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2, S. 763–766.
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Formation and teaching. He trained under Georg Christoph Wagenseil. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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