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★ Follow music ► Composer: Johann Sigismund Weiss () Work: Concerto in d-moll Performers: Slava Grigοryаn (guitar); Tаsmаniаn Symphony Orchestra; Benjamin Nοrthеy (conductor) Painting: Bernhard Keil (1624-1687) - Concerto Campestre HD image: Map: Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757) - Karte von Schlesien und angrenzenden Ländern HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Johann Sigismund Weiss [Weis, Weiß] (Breslau [now Wrocław], after 1690 - Mannheim, 12 April 1737) German lutenist and composer. Son of Johann Jacob Weiss () and brother of Silvius Leopold Weiss (1686-1750), he probably was trained by his father with whom, in 1708, was appointed lutenist at the court of the Elector Palatine in Düsseldorf; he remained at the Palatine court until his death. After Elector Johann Wilhelm died in 1716 the court music positions became unstable. In 1718 a lutenist, ‘Mr Weys’, gave weekly chamber concerts in London for several months and played for the king, possibly seeking a position at Court. This was probably Johann Sigismund Weiss rather than his elder brother. By 1732 he had been promoted to director of instrumental music, and in a personnel list of 1734 is cited as both Konzertmeister and theorbo player. He married in 1726, and remarried two years after his first wife’s death in 1732. Ernst Gottlieb Baron described him as not only a lutenist ‘but also an excellent gambist and violinist and composer’.
