Michael Hebenstreit (ca 1812 – after 1875) was an
Austrian Kapellmeister and
composer for stage music.
Life
Almost nothing has been handed down about Hebenstreit's life, only a few
scores have survived. He was a successor to
Adolf Müller senior as Kapellmeister as well as in the field of stage music and often worked together with
Johann Nestroy
Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (; 7 December 1801 – 25 May 1862) was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath. He participated in the 1848 revolutions and ...
. His place of activity was the
Leopoldstädter Theater, which, after being demolished and rebuilt under director
Carl Carl
Karl Andreas Bernbrunn (1787–1854), known by the stage name Carl Carl, was a Kraków-born actor and theatre director.
Bernbrunn was born illegitimately to Maria Anna Alxinger and Karl Andrä Bernbrunn. Maria Anna was the wife of the poet (175 ...
, was renamed the
Carltheater
The Carltheater was a theatre in Vienna. It was in the suburbs in Leopoldstadt at Praterstraße 31 (at that time called Jägerzeile).
It was the successor to the Leopoldstädter Theater. After a series of financial difficulties, that theater had ...
in December 1847, where he worked until his death in 1875.
After the
premiere of ' on 17 November 1849, the ''Österreichische Courier'' of 20 November 1849 (No 276, ) wrote rather derogatory about Hebenstreit's music, it would be "mildly marked - mediocre".
Hebenstreit was the discoverer and promoter of the opera singer
Etelka Gerster (1855–1920). Since he taught her from 1874 to 1875 at the former Vienna Conservatory, his year of death must be after 1875.
[Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: ''Handbuch österreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren jüdischer Herkunft 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert.'' Volume 1: ''A–I.'' Edited by the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Saur, Munich 2002, , ().]
Compositions (as far as handed down)
For Johann Nestroy
* ' (1843)
* ' (1847); for the opening of the newly built Carltheater
* ' (1848)
* ' (1848)
* ' (1848)
* ' (1849)
* ' (1849)
* ' (1849)
* ' (1849)
* ' (1850)
* ' (1850)
For other authors
*
Josef Kilian Schickh:
** ''Das Zauber-Diadem oder Abenteuer eines Stubenmädels'' (1836).
*
Wilhelm Turteltaub:
** ''Nur eine löst den Zauberspruch, oder Wer ist glücklich?'' (1841).
*
Friedrich Hopp:
** ''Doktor Faust's Hauskäppchen oder Die Herberge im Walde'' (ca 1850)
** ''Der Pelzpalatin und der Kachelofen, oder Der Jahrmarkt zu Rautenbrunn'' (1853).
*
Friedrich Kaiser:
** ''Eine Posse als Medizin'' (1850).
** ''Mönch und Soldat'' (1850).
** ''Dienstbothenwirthschaft, oder Chatoulle und Uhr'' (1852).
** ''Müller und Schiffmeister'' (1853).
External links
* Short biography in
* Werkverzeichnis au
Münchner DigitalisierungsZentrum* Werkverzeichnis auf
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hebenstreit, Michael
Austrian Romantic composers
19th-century composers
Date of birth missing
Date of death missing