Matous Alois Cibulka , Alaios Cibulka ( Czech Matouš Alois Cibulka , Hungarian Czibulka Alajos , German Matthaeus Aloys Zibulka ; February 22, 1768 [1] , Prague - October 5, 1846 [2] , Tata ) - Austrian composer , conductor and opera singer (tenor) of Czech origin.
He studied music in Prague, including with Jan Kstitel Kuharzha . Since 1785, the co-instructor at the Graz Opera House [3] , since 1791 the bandmaster there [4] .
From 1797 until his retirement in 1833 he worked in the German and Hungarian opera houses of Buda and Pest as a singer and choirmaster, later as a conductor, with a break in 1812-1814, when he conducted the theater orchestra in Temeshvara . In 1819 he was elected musical director of the Pest Music Society [5] .
Of his writings at the time, the most famous were songs - in particular, a collection of 12 songs, “The fruits of my best hours” ( German: Die Früchte meiner bessern Stunden ; Prague, 1791, to the words of G. A. Burger , Sofia Albrecht , Carolina Rudolphi and others), cantatas, clavier plays, arrangements of German folk dances.
Tsibulka's wife Anna Tsibulka (nee Menner; d. 1858) was the prima donna of the Pest Opera.
Notes
- ↑ In some sources, 1770 or, obviously mistakenly, 1786.
- ↑ In some sources of 1845.
- ↑ C // Várnai Péter. Operalexikon (1975) (Hungarian)
- ↑ Cibulka, Matouš Alois // Československý Hudební Slovník Osob a Institucí (1963), V.1. S.165. (Czech)
- ↑ Vermischte Nachrichten // Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, Num. 148, Junius 1819, Col. 336. (German)
Links
- Cybulka, MA // Allgemeines historisches Künstler-Lexikon für Böhmen und zum Theil auch für Mähren und Schlesien / Hrsg. von Gottfried J. Dlabacz. - Prag, 1815.