- Ignaz Assmayer
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 ofFranz Schubert .Life
Assmayer was born at
Salzburg . He studied underBrunmayr andMichael Haydn , and later, when he went to Vienna, he received further instruction fromEybler . 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
Weigl . He died inVienna .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.
As to his style Grove calls it correct and fluent, but wanting in both invention and force.
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