Johann Baptist Schenk

Johann Baptist Schenk (born with Wiener Neustadt the November 30th 1753 and died with Vienna the December 29th 1836) was a Austrian Compositeur of the traditional period.

Schenk was the pupil of Georg Christoph Wagenseil which taught the musical composition to him. Its Symphonie S was judged very honourably by Joseph Haydn but it is in the kind of the Singspiel that it left his greater achievements, of which Der Bettelstudent , Der Faßbinder and especially Der Dorfbarbier , in 1796.

Succeeding a time Haydn, Schenk was the professor of Ludwig van Beethoven in 1793 and was related to this last by solids bonds of friendship, as this sentence drawn from its autobiography testified some: “For my sorrow (if one can speak about sorrow), I received my good Ludwig one invaluable present, the solid bond of the friendship which did not slacken until its death” .

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