Anton Zimmermann (25 December 1741 in
Široká Niva – 16 October 1781 in
Bratislava) was a Silesian-born Slovak composer and contemporary of
Joseph Haydn and
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...
.
Zimmermann spent most of his career in
Bratislava, then capital of
Hungary
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, where he worked as a composer, violinist, conductor, and artist manager. His music has been recorded by, among others, the Musica Aeterna Soloists for the
Naxos
Naxos (; el, Νάξος, ) is a Greek island and the largest of the Cyclades. It was the centre of archaic Cycladic culture. The island is famous as a source of emery, a rock rich in corundum, which until modern times was one of the best ab ...
record label.
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1741 births
1781 deaths
18th-century composers
18th-century male musicians
People from Bruntál District
String quartet composers
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