Joseph Willibald Michl (1745-1816)
- O sapientia quae ex ore altissimi (c.1780)
Performers: Erika Rüggeberg (soprano); Convivium Musicum München; Erich Keller (conductor)
Further info: Augustiner Chorherrenstift Weyarn
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German double bass player and composer. He was son of Johann Anton
Leonhard Michl (1716-1781), choirmaster and organist in Neumarkt, and
brother of Martin Leonhard Michl (1749-?) and Johann Michael Michl
(1754-?). He settled in Munich and studied at the electoral Gymnasium
and Lyceum, and was an accomplished double bass player in the Jesuit
church of St Michael until about 1767. In the 1760s Elector Maximilian
III Joseph sent him to Freising to study for two years under Placidus
von Camerloher. By the beginning of 1771 at the latest Michl was named a
composer to the electoral chamber. His opera buffa 'Il barone di Torre'
(1772) was remarkably successful, and in 1774 he travelled to Italy at
the elector’s expense. In 1776 he wrote within four weeks (in place of
the ill Josef Mysliveček) the Carnival opera 'Il trionfo di Clelia' for
the Munich court. With the succession of the new elector, Carl Theodor,
in January 1778 he was dismissed with a pension of 125 florins, raised
to 240 florins in 1790. In July 1779 he was granted a privilege to
publish music in manuscript; he seems however to have restricted this
activity to his own works. From about 1784 to 1 September 1803 he lived
with his brother-in-law, Johann Baptist Moser, a judge at the
Augustinian prebendary institute at Weyarn, and wrote sacred works as
well as symphonies and school dramas for the monastery. In 1786 he also
taught composition at the Benedictine abbey at Tegernsee. As a composer,
he was mainly known for his sacred works.
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