Kapellmeister - Composers Who Held The Post of Kapellmeister

Composers Who Held The Post of Kapellmeister

(listed chronologically by date of birth)

  • Arnold von Bruck (c. 1500–1554) was Kapellmeister in Vienna for Archduke Ferdinand from 1527 to 1545.
  • Antonio Scandello (1517-1580) was Kapellmeister at the court of the Electors of Saxony in Dresden from 1568.
  • Jacob Regnart (1540s–1599) was Kapellmeister at Innsbruck from 1585 to about 1596.
  • Michael Praetorius (1571–1621) was Kapellmeister at Wolfenbüttel from 1604.
  • Heinrich Schuetz (1585–1673) was Kapellmeister to Johan Georg I, Elector of Saxony from 1619.
  • Samuel Scheidt (1587–1653) was Kapellmeister to the Margrave of Brandenburg.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Biber (1644–1704) was Kapellmeister in Salzburg from 1684.
  • Georg Muffat (1653–1704) was Kapellmeister to the bishop of Passau from 1690 to his death.
  • Agostino Steffani (1653–1728) was Kapellmeister from 1688 to 1698 at the court of Hanover.
  • Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (died 1746) was Kapellmeister to Ludwig Wilhelm of Baden from at least 1695.
  • Johann Ludwig Bach (1677–1731), a second cousin of J. S. Bach, was Kapellmeister at Meiningen.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) served as Kapellmeister for 16 years, starting in 1705, for the court of Count Erdmann II in Hamburg.
  • Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729) held the position of Kapellmeister at the electoral Saxon court in Dresden from 1717 until his death.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) worked from 1717 to 1723 as Kapellmeister for Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen.
  • George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) served as Kapellmeister from 1710 to 1712 for George, Elector of Hanover.
  • Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) was maestro di cappella at St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome from 1715 to 1719.
  • Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688–1758) was Kapellmeister from 1722 at Zerbst.
  • Carlo Grua (ca. 1700–1773) was Kapellmeister at the court of Mannheim under the Electorship of Karl III Philip.
  • Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759) was Kapellmeister starting in 1740 for Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the Great)
  • Giuseppe Bonno (1711–1788) was Kapellmeister to the Prince of Saxe-Hildburghausen in the 1750s and 1760s.
  • Giacomo Matteo Ignazio Cirri (1711–1787) was Kapellmeister (Maestro di Cappella) in the Cathedral of Forlì, in Italy, from 1759.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven (Lodewijk) (1712–1773), grandfather of the celebrated composer Ludwig van Beethoven, served as Kapellmeister in the Electoral court of Bonn.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787) was Kapellmeister starting 1754 for Maria Theresa of Austria in Vienna.
  • Niccolò Jommelli (1714–1774) served Duke Karl-Eugen of Württemberg in Stuttgart from 1753 to 1768.
  • Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724–1808) was Kapellmeister (Maestro di Cappella) in the Cathedral of Forlì, in Italy: from 1780, with Ignazio Cirri; after his death, alone.
  • Christian Cannabich (1731–1798), Kapellmeister of the legendary Mannheim court orchestra from 1774.
  • Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) had two Kapellmeister positions: first, from (probably) 1757 to 1761 for Count Morzin, then from 1761 on for the Eszterházy family. (He was Vice-Kapellmeister from 1761 to 1766.)
  • Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736–1809) was Kapellmeister at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.
  • Michael Haydn (1737–1806) was Kapellmeister at Großwardein and, starting in 1762, at Salzburg.
  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–1799) was Kapellmeister to the Prince-Bishop of Breslau from 1770 to 1795.
  • Andrea Luchesi (1741–1801) was the last Kapellmeister in the Electoral court of Bonn from 1774 to 1794.
  • Antonio Salieri (1750–1825) was Royal and Imperial Kapellmeister to Joseph II of Austria from 1788 to 1824.
  • Joseph Martin Kraus (1756–1792) was Kapellmeister (Ordinarie Capellmästere) in Stockholm at the court of king Gustav III of Sweden.
  • Christian Kalkbrenner (1755–1806) was Kapellmeister of the Prussian Queen (1789) and after 1790 Kapellmeister of Prince Henry of Prussia at Rheinsberg castle.
  • Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826) was Kapellmeister at the Bresault theater (1804-1807) and Kapellmeister at Dresden for Count Heinrich Vitzthum (1816-1826).
  • Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was Kapellmeister to Frederick Augustus II of Saxony.

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