Mosel, Ignaz Franz von#
b. Vienna, April 1, 1772, d. Vienna, April 8, 1844, composer and music writer. One of the most important personalities in music during Vormaerz pre-revolutionary period before 1848, allegedly the first to conduct with a baton in 1812 in Vienna (apart from Landgrave Ludwig von Hessen 1801). 1812-1816 directed annual music festivals of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien; 1820-1829 deputy director of the two court theatres, from 1829 head of the court library.
Works#
Operas: Die Feuerprobe, Salem, Cyrus und Astyages. - Lieder, psalms, choral songs, dances and marches for orchestra. -Publications#
Versuch einer Aesthetik des musikalischen Tonsatzes, 1813; Ueber das Leben und die Werke des A. Salieri, 1827; Geschichte der k. k. Hof-Bibl. in Wien, 1835; Ueber die Originalpartitur des Requiems von W. A. Mozart, 1842.Literature#
T. Antonicek, I. F. M., 1962; E. Hilscher (ed.), 200 Jahre Musikleben in Erinnerungen, 1998; OeBL.