Mosel, Ignaz Franz

1772-1844

Composer and conductor; a native of Vienna. A pupil of Joseph Fischer from 1812 to 1816, he conducted the first festivals of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreude for which services he was ennobled and given the title of Hofrath. From 1820 to 1829 he held the position of conductor and vicedirector of the two Court theatres and from 1829 until his death he was the chief custodian of the Imperial Library. For Paradies, the blind pianist, he arranged Haydn's Creation and Cosi fan tutti for two pianos, and he also arranged  the Creation, Cherubim's Deux journees and Medee for string quartet besides translating the text and putting additional instrumentation to some of Haydn's oratorios for the use of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreude. Among his own compositions are the opera, Cyrus und Astyages; the comic operas Die Feuerprobe and Der Mann von vierzig jahrem; the cantata, Hermes und Flora; overtures, entr'actes; dances and songs. Of his writings on musical subjects there are Uber das Leben und die Werke des Antonio Salieri; Versuch einer  Esthetik des dramatischen Tonsazts; t)ber die Original partitur des Requiems von W. A. Mozart; Die Tonkunst in Wien wahrend der letzten fünf Decennien, and Geschichte der Hofbibliothek.