Joachim Nicolas Eggert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish composer
Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1779
Place of Birth: Gingst, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Date of Death: 14-Apr-1813
Profession: composer, conductor, violinist
Nationality: Sweden, Germany
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Joachim Nicolas Eggert
- Joachim Nicolas Eggert (22 February 1779 – 14 April 1813) was a Swedish composer and musical director. Eggert was born in Gingst on Rügen, at that time part of Swedish Pommern.
- At a very young age he started studying to play the violin.
- In Stralsund he continued his musical education in the subjects of violin and composition.
- These studies were followed, in the first years of the 19th century, by studies in musical theory in Braunschweig and Göttingen, with Johann Nikolaus Forkel as a teacher. In 1802 he got his first appointment as a Kapellmeister at the court theater of Schwerin.
- A year later he became violinist at the Royal Court Orchestra of Sweden.
- He soon received his first commissions for compositions.
- In 1807 he was appointed a member of the Royal Swedish Musical Academy; in the same year he made his debut as a musical director.
- Between 1808 and 1812 he worked as a Hofkapellmeister at the Royal Court Orchestra.
- He died at Thomestorp, Östergötland, Sweden, of tuberculosis, at the age of 34 years. The main part of his compositional creations are instrumental works like operas, cantatas, musical dramas and symphonies.
- He also composed numerous works commissioned by the Swedish Court Orchestra.
- He introduced elements of Vienna Classicism into Swedish musical culture.
- In the course of his activities as Kapellmeister he introduced for the first time works of Beethoven's in the Swedish concert repertoire.
- He also gained fame by directing the first Swedish performances of Haydn's oratorio The Seasons and Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.
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