Johann Sigismund Kusser (1660-1727) - Ouverture des ’Festin des Muses’ (1700)

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Johann Sigismund Kusser! 👑🎭 Composer: Johann Sigismund Kusser (1660-1727) Work: Ouverture (VI, C-Dur) des ’Festin des Muses’ (1700) Performers: Musica antiqua KöIn; Reinhard Goеbеl (conductor) Drawing: Mathaus Merian (1593-1650) - Pressburg (Bratislava) HD image: Further info: :Kusser,_Johann_Sigismund Listen free: No available --- Johann (Jean, John) Sigismund (Sigismond) Kusser [Cousser] (Pressburg [now Bratislava], bap. 13 February 1660 - Dublin, December 1727) German composer of Hungarian parentage, active in Germany, England and Ireland. He received his early musical training from his father, Johann Kusser (1626-1675), a minister and organist. He lived in Stuttgart as a boy, then spent 8 years in Paris (1674-82), where he became a pupil of Jean Baptiste Lully. He subsequently was a violin teacher at the Ansbach court (1682-83), becoming opera Kapellmeister in Braunschweig in 1690. In 1695 he became co-director of the Hamburg Opera, but left the next year and was active in Nuremberg and Augsburg as an opera composer. He was again in Stuttgart from 1700 to 1704 as Ober-Kapellmeister. In 1705 he appeared in London, and in 1709 settled in Dublin, where he was made Chappel-Master of Trinity College in 1717 and Master of the Musick “attending his Majesty’s State in Ireland“ in 1717. He was greatly esteemed as an operatic conductor. Johann Mattheson, in his ’Volkommener Capellmeister’, holds him up as a model of efficiency. Kusser is historically significant for being the mediator between the French and the German styles of composition, and the first to use Lully’s methods and forms in German instrumental music. Lully’s influence is shown in Kusser’s set of 6 suites for Strings, ’Composition de musique suivant la methode française’ (Stuttgart, 1682). His extant music includes four sets of orchestral suites, the 1711 birthday ode, the 1713 serenata and collections of arias from his operas Erindo and Ariadne.