Schweitzer, Anton, 1735-1787
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Name (Latin)
Schweitzer, Anton, 1735-1787
Other forms of name
nnaa Schweitzer, Anton Theodor Heinrich, 1735-1787
Date of birth
1735-06-06
Date of death
1787-11-23
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- His Alceste, 1985:CIP t.p. (Anton Schweitzer)
- LC manual auth. cd.(hdg.: Schweitzer, Anton Theodor Heinrich, 1735-1787)
- New Grove(Schweitzer, Anton; b. Coburg, baptized 6/6/1735; d. Gotha 11/23/1787)
- LCN
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Depicted person: Anton Schweitzer
Heinrich Eduard Winter, Public domain
Wikipedia description:
Anton Schweitzer (6 June 1735 in Coburg – 23 November 1787 in Gotha) was a German composer of operas, who was affiliated with Abel Seyler's theatrical company. He was a child prodigy who obtained the patronage of the duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, who sent him to study with Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht at the court of Bayreuth in 1758, and then sent him to Italy (1764–66), and made him Kapellmeister. With the dismissal of the court orchestra at Hildburghausen, he was enabled to tour Europe with the Seyler theatrical company from 1769. His most notable work is the opera Alceste (1773), with a German libretto by Christoph Martin Wieland, among the early German-language operas.
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