Johann Sigismund Kusser

Birth, studies

Born the February 13rd 1660 with Presbourg (current Bratislava, Slovakia), Johann Sigismund Kusser studied the music in Paris during six years with Jean-Baptiste Lully (it was called, in France, Cousser).

Musical career

Kusser is Kapellmeister (= choirmaster) of the dukes of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Wurtemberg (1690) and director of the operas of Stuttgart and Hamburg. It had a temperament very quarreller, and for this reason perhaps the director of the opera Hamburger, Jakob Kremberg, refuses to him in 1693 his room for the representation of his opera Porus . In spite of that, Kusser makes play its opera elsewhere with a great success, to the great displeasure of Kremberg (Kusser will replace it later two years).

But the type-setter assembles soon a small itinerant troop who occurs in Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Munich, etc In 1700, Kusser goes back to Stuttgart, leaves for Italy one year later and, following new estrangements with his colleagues, settles in Great Britain.

Died, work

Kusser dies with Dublin (capital of Ireland) in November 1727. It was a very required type-setter, in spite of his difficult character, because of its control of the French orchestral style which it introduced besides in Germany.

External bonds

Biography of Kusser from where the article
Suite (Partition) is drawn

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