Johann Schobert ( German: Johann Schobert ; d. August 28, 1767 , Paris ) - French composer and harpsichord player of German origin.
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The biography of Schobert until the last period of his life, Parisian, is almost unknown. The year of his birth in various sources is indicated in the range from 1720 to 1740 (1735 is considered more likely); he came either from Silesia , or from Alsace , also called Nuremberg and Mannheim . It is only known firmly that in 1760 or 1761. Schobert settled in Paris, where he spent the rest of his life. He became the court musician of Prince de Conti and performed as a virtuoso, but he was most famous for his compositions, publishing 20 opuses - a total of about 40 sonatas for clavier (with ad libitum violin), four clavier concerts, and several other instrumental compositions. In addition, once Schobert tried himself in the opera genre, composing the comic opera "The Forester and the Poacher" ( French Le Garde-Chasse et le Braconnier ); probably he was also among the co-authors of the comic opera Cooper ( French: Le Tonnelier ; 1765, with Gossek , Trial and Filidor ).
At the turn of 1763-1764. young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met with Schobert and his music, touring in Paris. According to legend, Leopold Mozart Sr. publicly stated that his children (Wolfgang and his sister Nunnerl ) easily cope with Schobert sonatas, which offended him. However, Wolfgang Amadeus himself reacted to the music of Schobert with interest and sympathy, using the first part of the Schobert sonata Op. 17, No. 2 in Andante of his second clavier concerto (K. 39). Musicology at the beginning of the 20th century (in the person of especially D. Hussey ) praised Schobert’s influence on Mozart’s boy, raising it to this moment that the romantic tendency along with the classic one was born in Mozart’s art [4] [5] .
Schobert suddenly died with his wife, one of his children, a servant and four acquaintances after they all ate poisonous mushrooms at dinner.
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- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 120729237 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ Discogs - 2000.
- ↑ Hussey D. Wolfgang Amade Mozart. - New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928 .-- P. 26.
- ↑ Somerset HVF Johann Schobert and His Influence on the Music of Mozart // The Musical Times. - Vol. 72, No. 1063 (September 1, 1931). - P. 785-789.