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Georg Christoph Wagenseil

Composer of the imperial court and pioneer of the Viennese style.

Georg Christoph Wagenseil · Portrait (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)
Georg Christoph Wagenseil · Portrait (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

Classification · German and Austrian area

1715 – 1777

Vienna - Vienna

Review

Alumno de Johann Joseph Fux, was a composer of the imperial court and music professor of the empress Maria Teresa and her daughters, including Maria Antonieta. It is one of the key figures of the first Viennese classic style.

His symphonies and keyboard concerts prepared the ground for Haydn and Mozart. In 1762, little Mozart played a concert with the empress and asked that it be Wagenseil himself who passed the pages.

Main works

  • Ariodant Opera (1745)
  • Various for op key. 1
  • Concert for thrombon in my major bemol (1763)
  • Concert for harp in major sun
  • Concerts for key
  • Concert for cello
  • Symphonies
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