Joseph Starzer (1726-1787)
- Divertimento in C-Dur
Performers: Seattle Trumpet Consort
Further info: Music For The Natural Trumpet
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Austrian composer and violinist. No details of his musical training are
known, but it has been surmised that he studied with court composer
Giuseppe Bonno, the teacher of his sister Catharina Starzer. By about
1752 he was a violinist in Vienna's Burgtheater orchestra, where he
began his career as a composer of ballets. During the winter of 1758-59,
he went to Russia, where he was active at the Imperial court in St.
Petersburg; gave concerts and later was made Konzertmeister and then
deputy Kapellmeister and composer of ballet music; served as maitre de
chapelle et directeur des concerts in 1763. Returning to Vienna about
1768, he composed several notable ballets. With Florian Leopold
Gassmann, he helped in 1771 to organize the Tonkiinstler-Sozietat, for
which he wrote a number of works. In 1779 he retired as a violinist and
in 1785 gave up his duties with the society. Joseph Starzer was one of
the leading Austrian composers of his day, winning distinction not only
for his ballets but for his orchestral and chamber music; his string
quartets have been compared favorably with those of Joseph Haydn.
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