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Starzer, Josef (1726–1787)| Austrian composer and violinist. Violinist at the French theatre in Vienna from 1752, he was court composer and leader of the orchestra in St Petersburg 1758–70. Back in Vienna he wrote music for the choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre's ballets and was active in the Tonkünstler-Society, for whose concerts he re-orchestrated Handel's Judas Maccabeus in 1779. From 1783 Decreasing fitness forced his retirement. |
Works Singspiel Singspiele Die drei Pächter and Die Wildschützen. |
Ballet Roger et Bradamante (1771), Adèle de Ponthieu (1773), Gli Orazi ed i Curiazi (all with Noverre), and many others. |
Choral and orchestral oratorio La Passione di Gesù Cristo; symphonies, divertimenti for orchestra; violin concerto. |
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