!!!Gassmann, Florian

b. Most, Czech Republic (then Bruex), May 3, 1729, 
d. Vienna, Jan. 20, 1774, composer at the changeover from Baroque to 
Viennese classics. Long stays in Italy, from 1763 composer of ballet 
music in Vienna (successor to C. W.  Gluck), musical director at 
the Vienna Imperial Court in 1772; teacher of A.  Salieri, whom he had 
brought to Vienna from Venice, founder of the Composers' Society 
(Tonkuenstlersozietaet) in 1772.

!Works
22 operas, Oratorium "La Betulia liberata" (written 
in 1772 for the première of the Tonkuenstlersozietaet), 33 
symphonies, cantatas, chamber and sacred music. - Edition: Denkmaeler 
der Tonkunst in Oesterreich, vols. 42-44, 83, 1960.



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