Joseph Alois [Joseph] Schmittbaur [Schmittbauer] (08/11/1718 - 24/10/1809), a German composer; born in Bamberg, died in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Joseph Schmittbauer (1718–1809), the Kappelmeister at Karlsruhe, for training, particularly on the glass armonica. Schmittbauer was not only an accomplished armonica player, but could build fine armonicas.
| Source: | https://glassarmonica.com/armonica/kirchgaessner.php |
Requiem in E flat major
| Period: | Classicism |
| Composed in: | 1777c |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
| In memory of: | Clemens Faulstich |
This Requiem mass in E flat major (ca. 1777) is for solo voices, chorus and orchestra, in memory of Clemens Faulstich.
| Source: | The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians and Dagny Wegner, Requiemvertonungen in Frankreich zwischen 1670 und 1850, Hamburg, 2005 |
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis |