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Johann Nepomuk von Poißl (15 February 1783 17 August 1865) was a

Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

and

intendant An intendant (; ; ) was, and sometimes still is, a public official, especially in France, Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. The intendancy system was a centralizing administrative system developed in France. In the War of the Spanish Success ...

. He was born in the Haunkenzell Castle in Rattiszell,

Straubing-Bogen Straubing-Bogen is a Districts of Germany, ''Landkreis'' (district) in the eastern part of Bavaria, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) Cham (district), Cham, Regen (district), Regen, Deggendorf (district), Deggendorf, Din ...

, Bavaria. He died in

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

Selected works

Operas

* ''Antigonus'' (1808) * ''Ottaviano in Sicilia'' (1812) * ''Athalia'', libretto by Johann Gottfried Wohlbrück after

Jean Racine Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ; ; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tr ...

(1814/1817) * '' Der Wettkampf zu Olympia, oder Die Freunde'' (1815) * ''Dir wie mir'' (1816) * ''Nittetis'' (1817) * ''Issipile'' (1817/1818) * ''Die Prinzessin von Provence'' (1825) * ''Der Untersberg'' (1829) * ''Zayde'' (1843)

References

German Romantic composers German opera composers German male opera composers German untitled nobility People from Straubing-Bogen Pupils of Georg Joseph Vogler 1783 births 1865 deaths 19th-century German musicians Intendants of the Bavarian State Opera {{Germany-composer-stub