Joseph Willibald Michl (1745-1816) - O sapientia ()

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Joseph Willibald Michl! 🎭📯 Composer: Joseph Willibald Michl (1745-1816) Work: O sapientia quae ex ore altissimi () Performers: Erika Rüggеbеrg (soprano); Convivium Musicum München; Erich Kеllеr (conductor) Painting: Jacques Dumont (1704-1781) - Allégorie en l’honneur de la publication de la paix d’Aix-la-Chapelle, le 13 février 1749 (1761) HD image: Map: Joan Blaeu (1596-1673) - Territorii Novoforensis (1665) HD image: Further info: Listen free: No available --- (Johann) Joseph (Christian) Willibald Michl [Michel, Michelini] (Neumarkt, 9 July 1745 - Neumarkt, 1 August 1816) 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.