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Kärtnertortheater by Karl Zajicek

Beethoven died in Vienna on Monday, 26 March 1827. The funeral took place in the afternoon of 29th March.

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Various (abbreviated) connections between people: C=Concerts spirituels • D=Diplomats • H=Hofkapelle • K=Kärntnertor theatre • L=Ludlamshohle • Q=Quartet player • T=Hoftheater • U=Unsolved • V=Diabelli 50 variations

List of people at Beethoven's funeral
Name Role Profession Abbr. Born Died Age Notes
Ignaz Aßmayer choirmaster kapellmeister HL 11 Feb 1790 13 Aug 1862 72 Appointed as an organist of the Imperial Chapel (Hofkapelle) in 1825
Ignaz Böck 'Bones waldhorn player 1754 1815 c. 61 Either there really were two trombone-playing brothers of this name, or they are Anton and Ignaz Böck ('die Gebrüder Böck'), itinerant solo waldhorn players of astounding virtuosity. There is little reference to them after about 1815.[1]
Anton Böck 'Bones waldhorn player 1757 1815 c. 58 More refs:[2][3]
Joseph Frühwald choir (T) tenor soloist Hk 1781 or 1782 20 Apr 1856 74[4] Hofkapelle singer from 1831, with Titze from 1832.[4]
Aloys Fuchs [de] choir (B) civil servant a 22 Jun 1799 20 Mar 1853 53 Musical lawyer, worked in the War department with Kiesewetter [de], collected manuscripts, made a catalogue of Haydn's works. Fuchs sang bass in Kiesewetter's house/salon concerts, also played cello in Simon Molitor's quartet.[5]
Johann Baptist Geißler}} choir (T) tenor Ht 'verehrlichte (Gruenberg)', member kk Hoftheater 1786-1800.[6] Archivist and librarian of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde[7]
Benedikt Groß (Gross)}} choir (T) tenor Hk Sang with de:Anna Frölich and §Ludwig Titze at concerts organised up to 1825 by de:Josef Hochenadl and Kiesewetter [de] (from 1815)[8] Sang Der Hirt auf der Felsen, D965, in 1838 with a 12 year-old Alexander Leitermayer, the son of Michael.[9][10]
Kokrement (Kokrment?) choir (T) job U Tenor. Still unresolved - nothing at all, despite a number of relatively intensive searches.
Lidl (Leidl) choir (B) U See talk
Wenzel Nejebse choir (B) civil servant D 26 Sep 1796 19 Apr 1865 68 Brother of painter de:Johann Nejebse. Amateur bass singer. Worked in the govt. Censor dept., then in Finance dept. Founder member of the Wiener Männergesang-Vereins in 1843. Sang Schubert vocal quartets with Josef Barth, Josef Götz[11] und Johann Karl, Ritter Umlauff v. Frankwell (bzw. J. Nestroy) from 1821.[12] Performed Schubert partsongs 'Das Dorfchen', D598 & octet 'Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern', D714 at the Kärntnertortheater in March 1821. Sang 'Dithyrambe', D801 the day after Schubert's death, 20 November 1828, at the G der MF.[13]
Joseph Perschl choir (B) Bass singer Ht 1784 2 Jun 1856 71-72[14] Singer at the Hoftheater from 1804, and also in the Hofkapelle.[14] A kk viola player in 1829:[15] kk Double-bass player in 1836.[16] Died in Vienna from lung disease.
NB Probably not Leopold Perschl, double-bass player at the Kärntnertortheater in 1822.[17]
Leopold Pfeiffer choir (B) Bass soloist H 1757/1758 29 Oct 1831 73[4] [4]
Matthias Rathmayer (Rathmeyer) choir (T) lawyer D An accomplished amateur who frequently sang at the private house concerts of the empress Marie Therese of Austria. According to the court directory (Schematismus) in 1800 he was a member of the law faculty at the Theresianum. Sang Uriel in The Creation with Haydn conducting and Salieri at the keyboard in the Burgtheater on 22 and 23 December 1799, for a Composers' Society [Tonkünstlergesellchaft] benefit for composers' widows & children.[18]
Kolumban Schnitzer,
Edler von Meerau		 choir (T) diplomat D 1854 Died in Meran. Secretary, Austrian Legation, Florence. Connected with the Ferdinandeum (Tyrolean State Museum).[19] Librettist of Der Tanz, D.826. Sang 'Der zurnenden Diana', D707 at a Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde evening in Nov 1827 and participated in 'Der Gondelfahrer' in Jan 1828.[20] Sang tenor in Kiesewetter's house/salon concerts with Fuchs (qv)[21] Billions of refs here: [22]
Sikora (Sykora)}} choir (T) tenor U Not Valentin Sykora. Possibly Joseph Sikora, secretary of Vincenz Graf von Kaunitz, interested in Astronomy.[23]
Ludwig Titze}} choir (T) tenor soloist Hk 1 Apr 1797 11 Jan 1850 52
Tuschke (Tuschky)}} 'Bones trombonist K Played in the Kärntnertor Theatre[24]
Weidl 'Bones trombonist K Played in the Kärntnertor Theatre[24]
Joseph Michael Weinkopf choir (B) kapellmeister 1780 8 Mar 1862 Actor at kk Hoftheater 1807-1809, and 1814-1821 ("kk Hofsschauspieler)"; later choirmaster of the choirboys of the Hoftheater, singer at St. Stephen's cathedral and Kapellmeister of the Hofpfarrkirche of St. Michael's Church, Vienna. d. Vienna.[25]
Ziegler choir (B) U See talk

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Notes
  1. ^ Böck, Ignaz; 1754-1814; Hornist (PND 103871470). Lipowsky, Felix Joseph: Baierisches Musik-Lexikon München 1811.
  2. ^ Köhler, 1835
  3. ^ "Stein- und Feurherd-Platten-Handlung der Gebruder Bock". Gemeinnütziger und erheiternder Haus-Calender für das österr. Kaiserthum..., p. 165 - Directory of Vienna? By Joseph Ritter von Seyfried.
  4. ^ a b c d von Köchel 1869, p. 96.
  5. ^ Hanson 1985, p. 125.
  6. ^ Hofteather catalogue 1892, p. 344.
  7. ^ Burnham & Steinberg 2000, p. 281.
  8. ^ Liu 2013, pp. 63–5.
  9. ^ Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, Volume 40, p. 427.
  10. ^ Harten, Uwe (2001). Leitermayer, Familie, in: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online,. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  11. ^ Jiří Záloha, Josef Barth, Josef Götz: Zwei Schubert-Sänger böhmischer Herkunft.
  12. ^ Nejebse Brüder OAT
  13. ^ Clive 1997, p. 140.
  14. ^ a b Hofteather catalogue 1892, p. 348.
  15. ^ GASCHE david, Dissertation - E-Theses - Universität Wien Dissertation
  16. ^ Hof-und Staats-Schematismus des oesterreichen Kaiserthums I. Theil. Wien: kk Hof-und Staats-Aerariat-Drucker (1836)
  17. ^ Albrecht 1996b.
  18. ^ Albrecht 2008, pp. 31–32.
  19. ^ NZF 1840, p. LVII.
  20. ^ Hanson 1985, p. 228, 229.
  21. ^ Clive 1997, p. 95.
  22. ^ Kolumban Schnitzer von Meerau (Re: Fragen zu Text von Schubert-Lied D 826 "Der Tanz") Bernd-Christoph Kämper, UB Stuttgart. Accessdate 12 October 2017
  23. ^ A book to cite
  24. ^ a b Marx, Adolf Bernhard, ed. (2 May 1829). "Post nubila Phöbus!". Berliner allgemeine musikalische Zeitung. 6 (18): 142–3. NB Inc. list of the reconstituted orchestra of the Theater am Kärntnertor, which had been dark for some time.
  25. ^ Hofteather catalogue 1892, p. 3508.
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