Craig Wayne Boyd - In Pictures (The Voice Performance)

KAUER (Kauer) Ferdinand (18 I 1751, Diyakovichki, near Znojmo, Moravia - 13 IV 1831, Vienna) - Austrian composer. In 1784 he played in the Vienna Vienna Orchestra. operas. He worked as a bandmaster at the Josefstadt Theater and the Leopoldstadt Theater (Vienna). The author is numerous. operas (c. 200) and wingspings. K.'s operas The Danube Mermaid (The Danube Virgin, Das Donauweibchen, 1798, Vienna) and The Queen of the Stars (Die Sternenkönigin, 1809) have long been preserved in the repertoire of Vienna's theaters. In 1803-04, the "Danube Mermaid" was a post. in St. Petersburg (under the name "Lesta, the Dnieper Mermaid", with a modified libr. and insert numbers of K. A. Kavos and S. I. Davydov). The popularity of this proizv. prompted the playwrights N. S. Krasnopolsky and A. A. Shakhovsky to write a continuation of the opera with the music of Davydov. TO.belongs to the "School of singing according to the new system of musical art" ("Sing-Schule nach dem neuesten System der Ton-Kunst", c. 1790) and others. Op.