Ignaz Assmayer

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Ignaz Assmayer (11 February 1790 – 31 August 1862) was an Austrian composer of liturgical music. An organist at St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg, he lived in Vienna from 1815, and was in 1846 the conductor of the Court Orchestra. Assmayer was a friend of Franz Schubert.

Life

Assmayer was born at Salzburg. He studied under Brunmayr and Michael Haydn, and later, when he went to Vienna, he received further instruction from Eybler. In 1808 he was organist at St. Peter's in Salzburg, and here he wrote his oratorio "Die Sündfluth" (The Deluge) and his cantata "Worte der Weihe".

Some time after his move to Vienna, in 1815, he became choirmaster at the Schotten kirche, and in 1825 was appointed imperial organist. After having served eight years as vice-choirmaster, he received in 1846 the appointment of second choir-master to the Court, as successor to Joseph Weigl. He died in Vienna.

Works

His principal oratorios, "Das Gelübde", "Saul und David", and "Sauls Tod", were repeatedly performed by the Tonkünstler-Societät, of which he was conductor for fifteen years. He also wrote fifteen masses, two requiems, a Te Deum, and various smaller church pieces. Of these two oratorios, one mass, the requiems, and Te Deum, and furthermore sixty secular compositions, comprising symphonies, overtures, pastorales, etc., were published.

In the 1820s, he was one of 50 composers to write a Variation on a theme of Anton Diabelli for Part II of the Vaterländischer Künstlerverein. Part I was devoted to the 33 variations supplied by Beethoven, which have gained an independent identity as his Diabelli Variations, Op. 120.

As to his style, Grove calls it correct and fluent, but wanting in both invention and force.

References

Susanne Antonicek: Ignaz Assmayr (1790 – 1862). Biographie und Messenschaffen mit thematischen Katalog seiner Werke. Phil. Thesis. Vienna 2001.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ignaz Assmayer". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.

External links

Ignaz Assmayer in the Aeiou Encyclopedia (German)
Informations about the Masses in D and C

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 12695834 LCCN: no00003700 ISNI: 0000 0001 1021 342X GND: 102499322

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Name	Assmayer, Ignaz
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Short description	Austrian composer
Date of birth	11 February 1790
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Date of death	31 August 1862
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