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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1763-08-24
- Active to
- 1825-03-29
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Johann Andreas Amon (1763 – March 29, 1825) was a German virtuoso horn player, violist, conductor and composer. Amon composed around fifty works, including symphonies, concerti, sonatas, and songs. He also wrote two masses, various liturgical works, and two operettas. Amon was born at Bamberg, Bavaria in 1763, being first instructed in singing by the court singer Madame Fracassini, then later in instrumental work by Giovanni Punto, who took Amon to Paris to study composition with Antonio Sac
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Andreas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Holy Roman Empire
- Place of death
- Wallerstein
- Occupation
- horn player
- Languages spoken
- German
- Student of
- Giovanni Punto
- Genre
- opera
- Instrument
- viola
- Image
- Johann Andreas Amon.jpg
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- date of baptism
- 1763-10-18
- date of birth
- 1763-00-00
- described by source
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- date of death
- 1825-00-00
- P8168
- adularescence
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- Johann Andreas Amon
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Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to Johannes Andreas Amon, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
