Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm

(1778-1858)

Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm was a author of vocal and instrumental music; was born in Salisburgo on the 10th July 1778, the same year of the composers Barbosa de Araújo, Caffi, Cranach, Gianella, Hummel, Kanne, Kemp, Pacini, Pucitta, Romani, Rungenhagen, Sor, Tessino. He died in Parigi on the third April 1858

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Neoclassical period

OPERE

"Die Nachtwächter" was performed in 1804 in Vienna

"Die neue Oper oder Der Schauspieldirektor" has been represented in 1804 in Vienna

"Alexander am Indus" was performed on the 27th of September 1804 in San Pietroburgo

"Musikalische Malerei" was performed in Mosca on the 1st of May 1806

"Arkona" was performed in Würzburg on the 21st of September 1808

"Niobé" was performed in Montbéliard in 1809

LIEDER

"Farewell!" (Farewell! if ever fondest prayer), text of George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)

"There be none of Beauty's daughters", published in 1853, text of George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)

"Bonaparte" (1798), oil on canvas, 31 7/8 x 25 5/8 in, of the painter Jacques-Louis David, contemporary of Neukomm (Musee du Louvre, Paris)

Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm

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