Previous posts for June 13th are found here: Carlos Chávez (2019), Ede Poldini (2020), Anton Wranitzky (2021), Anton Eberl (2022), and Pomponio Nenna (2023)
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Anton Eberl (13 June 1765 – 11 March 1807) was an Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist. He was part of the Mozart circle and a close friend of Beethoven.
Killing with Kindness
If he had a fault worthy of censure, then it was his excess of goodness and guilelessness, which led him always to think the best of people. – obituary in Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung (1 April 1807), qtd. at Wikipedia
Today I’m celebrating here
A man who moved on Mozart’s sphere;
A man whose reputation stood
Among the guileless and the good.
But Anton Eberl’s star has faded;
Perhaps his music, when unaided
By his charming social self
Is doomed to languish on the shelf.
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