Johann Baptist Schenk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian composer
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Johann Baptist Schenk
- Johann Baptist Schenk (30 November 1753 – 29 December 1836) was an Austrian composer and teacher. Schenk was born in Wiener Neustadt.
- While still a boy he composed songs, dances and symphonies, and became a proficient violinist and keyboard and wind instrument player.
- In 1773 he went to Vienna to study with Georg Christoph Wagenseil.
- Beginning in 1777 he was composing religious works for Saint Stephen's Cathedral.
- In the 1780s he became a prolific composer of incidental music for plays and singspiele.
- His best-known singspiel is Der Dorfbarbier, which premiered in 1796.
- His other compositions include numerous cantatas, ten symphonies, several concertos (including a well-known one for harp), and five string quartets.
- Mozart was a good friend of Schenk and Beethoven studied under him in 1793. In around 1823, he composed a variation on a waltz by Anton Diabelli (D 718), being one of the 51 composers who contributed to Vaterländischer Künstlerverein. He died in Vienna.
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