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DANIEL STEIBELT (c. 1764-1823)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 870 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DANIEL See also:STEIBELT (c. 1764-1823)  , See also:German pianist and composer, was See also:born at the earliest in 1764 or 1765 in See also:Berlin . He was indebted to the See also:crown See also:prince See also:Frederick See also:William for his musical See also:education . Very little is known of his See also:artistic See also:life before 1790, when he settled in See also:Paris and attained See also:great popularity as a virtuoso by means of a See also:pianoforte See also:sonata called La Coquette, which he composed for See also:Queen See also:Marie Antoinette; his dramatic See also:opera entitled Romeo et Juliette, produced at the See also:TheatreSee also:Feydeau in 1793, was equally successful . In 1796 See also:Steibelt removed to See also:London, where his pianoforte-playing attracted great See also:attention . In 1798 he produced his See also:concerto (No . 3, in E See also:flat) containing the famous " See also:Storm See also:Rondo "—a See also:work that ensured his popularity . In the following See also:year Steibelt started on a professional tour in See also:Germany; and, after playing with some success in See also:Hamburg, See also:Dresden, See also:Prague and Berlin, he arrived in May 1800 at See also:Vienna, where he challenged See also:Beethoven to a trial of skill . His discomfiture was See also:complete and he retired to Paris . During the next eight years he lived alternately in that See also:city and in London . In 18o8 he was invited by the See also:emperor See also:Alexander to St See also:Petersburg, succeeding See also:Boieldieu as director of the royal opera in 1811 . Here he resided in the enjoyment of a lucrative See also:appointment until his See also:death on the 20th of See also:September 1823 . Besides his dramatic See also:music, Steibelt See also:left behind him an enormous number of compositions for the pianoforte .

His playing, though brilliant, was wanting in the 'higher qualities which characterized that of his contemporaries, See also:

John See also:Cramer and Muzio See also:Clementi; but he was gifted with talents of a high See also:order; and the reputation he enjoyed was fully deserved .

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