Josef Triebensee (Trübensee) (Nov 21, 1772 Třeboň-Apr. 22, 1846 Prague) was a Bohemian composer and oboist.
He studied composition with Albrechtsberger and oboe with his father, Georg Triebensee (Jy 28, 1746-Jn. 14, 1813). He served in the private orchestra of Prince Schwarzenberg, and from 1782-1806 as first oboist of the Austrian Emperor's Harmonie (wind band). Concurrently, he also served as principal oboist at the Nationaltheater of Vienna. Other associations included second oboist at the Kärntnertortheater, Kappellmeister to Prince Liechtenstein's Harmonie at Feldsberg, the private orchestra of Count Hunyady (from 1811), a theater composer in Brno, and from 1816 to his retirement 1836, director of the Prague Opera where he succeeded composer Carl Maria von Weber. Unlike Weber, his operas found little success.
Triebensee was the second oboist at the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna in 1791 when he played the premiere of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte - explaining the peculiar difficulty of the second oboe parts in that work.
Triebensee's most important compositions were two sets of Harmoniemusik, the second appearing in 32 installments of ten or more movements. He wrote 12 comic operas for Vienna and Prague as well as vocal, orchestral, and chamber works.
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| Year | Title | acts | première | libretto |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1798 | Die Liebe macht kurzen Prozess (or: Heirat auf gewisse Art); (with: Matthäus Stegmayer, J. Wölfl, Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Joh. B. Henneberg, Franz Xaver Süßmayr and Jakob Haibel) |
2 | March 26, 1798, Vienna, Theater auf der Wieden | Joachim Perinet |
| 1799 | Der rote Geist im Donnergebirge (2 cd act composed by Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried) |
2 | June 5, 1799, Vienna, Theater auf der Wieden | Matthäus Stegmayer |
| 1820 | Divoká honba - Die wilde Jagd | March 8, 1820, Prague, State Opera (Stavovské divadlo) | Sebastian Willibald Schiessler | |
| 1820–1821 | Manželé podle módy - Die Ehemänner nach der Mode | 3 | January 31, 1821, Prague, State Opera (Stavovské divadlo) | J. von Seyfried |
| 1823 | Telemach na ostrově Ogygisa - Telemach auf der Insel Ogygia | 2 | January 10, 1824, Prague, State Theater (Stavovské divadlo) | K.J. Schikaneder |