Johann Sigismund Kusser
Johann Sigismund Kusser - 17th century composer
Person from Germany
Genres: baroque, german, composer, 18th century, late baroque
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About Johann Sigismund Kusser
(b Bratislava, bap. 13 Feb 1660; d Dublin, Nov 1727). Composer of Hungarian parentage active in Germany, England and Ireland. After six years in Paris studying with Lully, his first significant post was as opera Kapellmeister at the Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel court (1690-94). A brief association with the Hamburg opera led him to form his own travelling opera company, but by 1700 he was Oberkapellmeister at the Stuttgart court. After disagreements he moved in 1705 to London, and spent much of his remaining career in Dublin, where he composed for royal celebrations. Often basing his music on French dance forms, he excelled in arias of more dramatic appeal; of his 23 known stage works only two collections of arias survive. He developed a more cosmopolitan repertory at Hamburg, raising standards of performance there by his excellence as an orchestral director. This is how a colleague of his at Hamburg, Johann Mattheson, an influential writer on music of the time, remembers him: "Cousser (as a musical director) was possessed of an unsurpassable talent. He taught tirelessly, (...) demonstrated every single note, both for the singer and the player, according to his conception of how they should be performed, and did so (...) with such humility and so beautifully that people could only take him to their hearts and feel themselves to be in his debt for this priceless teaching. He became a role-model for many people."
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