Joseph martin composer wiki

Joseph Martin Kraus, född 20 juni 1756 i Miltenberg i Tyskland, död 15 december 1792 i Stockholm, var en tysk-svensk tonsättare.

  • Joseph Martin Kraus, född 20 juni 1756 i Miltenberg i Tyskland, död 15 december 1792 i Stockholm, var en tysk-svensk tonsättare.
  • Joseph Martin (b.
  • Joseph Martin Kraus (20 June 1756 – 15 December 1792), was a German-Swedish composer in the Classical era who was born in Miltenberg am Main, Holy Roman Empire.
  • He composes a number of choral songs, that is, hymns, and is often performed in Korean churches, perhaps because of the lyrical aspect of slow songs.
  • Joseph Martin Kraus (20 June 1756 – 15 December 1792) was a German composer and Hofkapellmeister in the service of king Gustav III of Sweden in Stockholm.

    • Joseph Martin Kraus (20 June 1756 – 15 December 1792), was a German-Swedish composer in the Classical era who was born in Miltenberg am Main, Holy Roman Empire....

    Joseph Martin Kraus

    German composer

    Joseph Martin Kraus (20 June 1756 – 15 December 1792), was a German-Swedish composer in the Classical era who was born in Miltenberg am Main, Holy Roman Empire.

    He moved to Sweden at age 21, and died at the age of 36 in Stockholm. He has been referred to as "the Swedish Mozart",[1] and had a life span very similar to Mozart's.

    Life

    Childhood

    Kraus was born in the South German town of Miltenberg in Lower Franconia, the son of Joseph Bernhard Kraus, a county clerk in the Archbishopric of Mainz, and Anna Dorothea née Schmidt.

    Joseph Martin, a native of North Carolina, earned his Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.

    His father's family, originally from Augsburg, had a small restaurant in Weilbach near Amorbach, while his mother was a daughter of the master-builder at Miltenberg Johann Martin Schmidt. They had 14 children, of whom seven died in childhood; Marianne Kraus was a sister of Joseph's.

    After a short stay in Osterburken, the Kraus family moved in 1761 to Buchen (in the Odenwald), where Joseph Bernhard Kra