Biography of Leopold Hofmann (1738-1793)
14.08.1738
Born in Vienna
Student of Franz Tuma and Georg Christoph Wagenseil
Choirboy in the court chapell of the imperators widow
1764
Head of the choir of St. Peter in Vienna
1769
Successor of Wagenseil as court piano master.
1772
Court organist and bandmaster in the St. Stephan chapel in Vienna
1791
Falls ill. Mozart is made his assistant, but dies before filling this position.
17.03.1793
Dies in Vienna
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Sheet music for flute:
Divertimento (C-Dur)
(flute, bassoon)
Amadeus Verlag, BP 631
Rating: mid-grade
- Allegro
- Menuetto
- Vivace
two scores
Taken from a handwriting in the archive of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna of 1780.
Literature von/über Leopold Hofmann
- Flöteninstrumente und ihre Baugeschichte - Spielpraxis - Komponisten und ihre Werke - Interpreten1. edition Laaber: Laaber-Verlag,2009. - ISBN: 978-3-89007-545-7
Last edit 01.01.2010