- Joachim Nicolas Eggert
Joachim Nicolas Eggert, Swedish
composer andmusical director , (*22 February 1779 inGingst onRügen , at that time part of SwedishPommern ; †14 April 1813 inThomestorp ,Östergötland ,Sweden ).At a very young age he started studying to play the violin. In
Stralsund he continued his musical education in the subjects violin und composition. These studies were followed, at the first years of the 19th century, by studies in musical theory inBraunschweig andGöttingen , withJohann Nikolaus Forkel as a teacher.In
1802 he got his first appointment as aKapellmeister at the court theater ofSchwerin . A year later he became violinist at the Royal Court Orchestra of Sweden. He soon received his first commissions for compositions. In1807 he was appointed member of the Royal Swedish Musical Academy; in the same year he made his debut as a musical director. Between1808 and1812 he worked as a Hofkapellmeister at the Royal Court Orchestra. He died in1813 of tuberculosis, at the age of 34 years.The main part of his compositional creations are instrumental works like
opera s,cantata s, musical dramas and symphonies. He also composed numerous works commissioned by the Swedih Court Orchestra. He introduced elements of theVienna Classicism into Swedish musical culture. In the course of his activities as Kapellmeister he introduced for the first time works of Beethoven's in the Swedish concert repertoire. He also gained fame by directing the first performances in Sweden of Haydn's oratorio "The Seasons " and Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute ".Works (a selection)
*Operas
**The Moors in Spain
**Svante Sture och Märta Leijonhufvud
*Symphonies
**Symphony No. 1 in C-Minor
**Symphony No. 2 “Skjöldebrand” in g-Minor
**Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major
**Symphony No. 4 in C-MajorExternal links
Article about Eggert by the Israeli musicologist Avishai Kallai [http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/eggert]
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