Joseph Panny (23 October 1794 – 7 September 1838) was an Austrian composer and violinist who lived primarily in
Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...
.
A contemporary and friend of
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire ...
, very few of his works remain in the active repertoire today.
Compositions
He was the composer of one of the second-published set of
Diabelli Variations
The ''33 Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli'', Op. 120, commonly known as the ''Diabelli Variations'', is a set of variations for the piano written between 1819 and 1823 by Ludwig van Beethoven on a waltz composed by Anton Diabelli. It for ...
, alongside
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...
,
Carl Czerny
Carl Czerny (; ; 21 February 1791 – 15 July 1857) was an Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin whose music spanned the late Classical and early Romantic eras. His vast musical production amounted to over a thousand works an ...
, a young
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic music, Romantic period. With a diverse List of compositions by Franz Liszt, body of work spanning more than six ...
, and many other Austrian composers. While in Vienna,
Niccolò Paganini
Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (; ; 27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices ...
commissioned Joseph Panny, fellow violinist and composer, to write the "Tempest" on 25 May 1828 (it was finished on 14 June), while supervising himself the composition.
See also
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Ludlamshöhle
The Ludlamshöhle was a literary society founded by the Austrian playwright Ignaz Franz Castelli together with August von Gymnich in Vienna, Austria, in 1819, which existed until 18 April 1826.
The society was named after the theatre play ''Lud ...
References
* Ekard Stark: ''Joseph Panny: (1794–1838); ein Beitrag zur Mainzer Musikgeschichte des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts'', Zulassungsarbeit zum Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an höheren Schulen, Mainz, 1961.
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* Peter Erhart: ''Niederösterreichische Komponisten''. Doblinger, Wien 1998, , p. 51.
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1794 births
1838 deaths
Composers from the Austrian Empire
19th-century Austrian classical composers
Musicians from Vienna
Romantic composers
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