Carl Heinrich Biber (4 September 1681 – 19 November 1749) was a late Baroque violinist and composer.
He was born in
Salzburg
Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian) is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872.
The town is on the site of the ...
, the sixth son of
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber ( bapt. 12 August 1644, Stráž pod Ralskem – 3 May 1704, Salzburg) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally left his employer, Prince-Bishop Karl L ...
. He received his first musical education from him. In 1704, he made a study trip to Venice and Rome, important centers of music. After his return, he was employed as a violinist and valet and from 1714, he was appointed ''
Vicekapellmeister'' at the Salzburg court. In 1743, he succeeded ''Hofkapellmeister''
Matthias Sigismund Biechteler (1668?–1743) and he was also the supervisor of
Leopold Mozart
Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a German composer, violinist and theorist. He is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook ''Versuch einer gründlichen ...
. He died in his native city of Salzburg, aged 68.
He belongs to a generation of composers who represented the stylistic transition between composers committed to the older, late Baroque style ideal and rococo composers. His output consists mainly of masses and other liturgical works that also includes instrumental church sonatas. The latter are mostly string sonatas with organ accompaniment, seldom brass and woodwind instruments.
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18th-century classical composers
18th-century Austrian male musicians
Austrian classical composers
Austrian Baroque composers
Austrian people of German Bohemian descent
Musicians from Salzburg
1681 births
1749 deaths
Austrian male classical composers