Josef Puschmann (1738-1794) - Viola Concerto (c.1780)
197Autor: Josef Puschmann (1738-1794)
Obra: Viola Concerto (c.1780)
Intèrprets: Jаn Pěruškа (viola); Chamber Orchestra from members of the Czеch PhiIharmonic Orchestra; Andrеаs Sеbаstiаn Wеisеr (conductor)
Pintura: Follower of Samuel Scott - A view of St Paul's Cathedral and old London bridge from the Thames
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Josef Puschmann
(Červená Voda, 28 July 1738 - Olomouc, before 4 February 1794)
Czech composer. From early childhood he learnt several instruments and soon began to compose. From 1750 he was a pupil at the Augustinian monastery in Brno, where he sang alto and played the violin. About 1762 he entered the service of Baron Skrbenský in Hošt’álkovy, Silesia, as valet and musician, and in 1764 he married Josepha Hönigschmid. Three years later he transferred to Count Ignác Dominik Chorinský (1729-1792) in Velké Hoštice, Silesia, whose castle orchestra he directed until 1777. For the Opava Minorites in 1768 he composed a sacred melodrama entitled Singspiel über das Leben des … Heiligen Joseph von Copertin. In 1773 Puschmann was sent by Count Chorinský to study in Vienna, and in 1777 he composed a cantata for two voices to celebrate the wedding of the count's daughter Marie with Erasmus Ludwig von Stahremberg, and in the same year he applied for the post of cathedral musical director in Olomouc to succeed Anton Neumann, taking it up the next year and holding it until his death. Both as a person and as an artist Puschmann was the most remarkable of the Olomouc Cathedral musical directors. Apart from his duties in the cathedral, he took part in the musical academies which Archbishop Colloredo organized in his palace, and he continued to keep up his musical contacts with his former employer, Count Chorinský. He composed both secular and sacred music, of which his instrumental works are in an early Classical style with Rococo traits. His dramatic works and cantatas are known only through the printed librettos.