Biography of Leopold Hofmann (1738-1793)

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14.08.1738

Born in Vienna

Student of Franz Tuma and Georg Christoph Wagenseil

Choirboy in the court chapell of the imperators widow

1764

Head of the choir of St. Peter in Vienna

1769

Successor of Wagenseil as court piano master.

1772

Court organist and bandmaster in the St. Stephan chapel in Vienna

1791

Falls ill. Mozart is made his assistant, but dies before filling this position.

17.03.1793

Dies in Vienna

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Sheet music for flute:

Divertimento (C-Dur)

(flute, bassoon)

Amadeus Verlag, BP 631

Rating: mid-grade

1. Allegro
2. Menuetto
3. Vivace

two scores

Taken from a handwriting in the archive of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna of 1780.

Literature von/über Leopold Hofmann

• Adorján, András:  Lexikon der Flöte
  Flöteninstrumente und ihre Baugeschichte - Spielpraxis - Komponisten und ihre Werke - Interpreten
  1. edition Laaber: Laaber-Verlag,
  2009. - ISBN: 978-3-89007-545-7