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[extrait de:] Bruce Alan Brown: 'Starzer, Joseph', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 16 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Starzer, Joseph (Johann Michael) (bap. Vienna, 5 Jan 1728; d Vienna, 22 April 1787). Austrian composer and violinist. […] He was the son of Thomas Starzer, a horn player originally from Bavaria, and Anna Maria Wimmer; the brass instrument maker Johann Leichnamschneider stood as godfather. Thomas served in the Kapelle of Count Johann Julius von Hardegg, and as a watchman at court, before entering the orchestra of Vienna's German (Kärntnertor) theatre around 1752 […]
[…] Court payment records from March 1754 list Starzer as a violinist and composer in the French theatre, at an annual salary of 720 florins; presumably he had fulfilled both functions since the 1752 reorganization of court spectacles. For the 1755–6 season his compositional duties are said to be in both theatres, with his salary increased to 1000 florins. The following year music for ballets is specified, possibly representing a slight narrowing of his duties.
The peregrinations of dancers, and a concerted publicity effort by Giacomo Durazzo, the court's director of spectacles, soon spread the works and fame of Hilverding and Starzer abroad. […] Hilverding was called to the Russian court in late 1758 and Starzer followed after the end of the 1758–9 season. (During the interim he collaborated with several choreographers, among them Hilverding's successor in the French theatre, Angiolini.) In Russia Starzer and Hilverding restaged some of their Viennese works, and created a number of new, mainly allegorical, ballets and collaborated on ballets for Italian operas. […] Starzer worked with other choreographers besides Hilverding, including his successor Pierre Granger, before returning to Vienna in 1767. […]
On his return Starzer became a preferred collaborator of the famed choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre, then in the first year of his engagement in Vienna. Those of his scenarios that Starzer set were mainly on galant and ‘grotesque’subjects, but also included the heroic. Noverre was followed in Vienna in 1774 by his arch-rival Angiolini, with whom Starzer created multi-act ballets (Le Cid, Teseo in Creta) on a scale similar to Noverre's, though in a different taste choreographically. […]
With the advent in 1776 of Joseph II's Nationaltheater, and the dismissal of the court's ballet troupe, Starzer (described along with Salieri in court payment records as ‘extra personnel’, with an annual salary of 2000 florins) was called upon to compose music for German plays, the music of which seems not to survive."
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