Josef Bárta (also Josef Bartha; – 13 June 1787) was a Czech composer and organist.
Life Bárta was born in in Prague, Bohemia. He was a priest and organist at the Church of Saint Salvator in Prague. Before 1772, he moved to Vienna. He died in Vienna on 13 June 1787.
In addition to three operas and a singspiel, Bárta wrote piano sonatas, string quartets, and 13 symphonies. His other works are presumed lost.
Works La Diavolessa by Carlo Goldoni, 1772 Da ist nicht gut zu raten (There's no good guessing), comic opera, 1778 Der adlige Taglöhner (The noble laborer), singspiel, 1780 Il Mercato di Malmantile, 1784 13 symphonies, Prague, Narodni Muzeum (Milada Rutová)
References
Further reading Hellmut Federhofer: The Thundering Legion of Joseph Barta. In Rainer Cadenbach, Helmut Loos (ed.): Contributions to the history of the oratorio since Handel. Festschrift Günther Massenkeil 60th birthday. Voggenreiter, Bonn, 1986, , . Jaromír Havlík: Symfonie Antonína Laubeho a Josefa Bárty. Prague 1975 (dissertation). Camillo Schoenbaum: The Bohemian musicians in the music history of Vienna from Baroque to Romanticism. In: Studies in Music Science (StMw) 25, 1962, , , (Festschrift for Erich Schenk).
External links Works by and about Josef Bárta in the catalog of the German National Library