Talk:Joseph Leutgeb
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If someone is proficient at German-to-English translation, the German Wikipedia has an article on this musician at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ignaz_Leitgeb.
I've added his dates of birth and death from that source. Engineer Bob 06:18, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Current omissions
Hello, I can't find a reference source for the following items, so I'm putting them for now on the Talk page. If someone can find a legit reference, it would be nice to put it back in.
- Leitgeb was a wealthy cheese merchant and was able to afford to pay Mozart for compositions, as well as lending money to the sometimes impecunious composer.
- Recent scholarship dates the horn concerti in the order 2, 3, 4, 1, with no. 1 (K. 412) being the last composed. This piece is less demanding than the others, and this is believed to reflect the decline of Leitgeb's prowess either with age or with his music being increasingly relegated to a sideline.
- If the soloist mentioned in the 1749 concerts was the same Leitgeb, then aged 17, it would make him almost unique as a solo performer both before and afer the use of hand-horn technique became common. This has yet to be fully and academically investigated or proved.
- It also raises the question of how, where and by whom he was educated as a 17 year old would not have been likely to have been able to afford an instrument of his own.
- (The cheese shop business was inherited from his wife's family).
Perhaps looking up work by John Humphries, mentioned in the previous version, might help. Opus33 19:27, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Was Leutgeb a cheese merchant?
Leitgeb never was a cheese merchant. There are absolutely no archival sources that prove his activity in the cheese business. Only his father in law Blasius Plazeriani was a cheese monger. Leitgeb was a musician all his life and although he owned half a house, he died penniless, because he was too much in debt.--131.130.135.193 (talk) 17:43, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
