Treu, Daniel Gottlob
Treu, Daniel Gottlob
Treu, Daniel Gottlob, German composer; b. Stuttgart, 1695; d. Breslau, Aug. 7, 1749. He learned to sing and to play the violin and keyboard as a child, and also received training in composition from Johann Kusser; about 1716 he went to Venice to pursue training with Vivaldi and Biffi. In 1725 he became Kapellmeister to an Italian opera troupe in Breslau, where he brought out 4 of his own operas: Astaro (1725), Caio Martio Coriolano (1726), Ulisse e Telemacco (1726), and Don Chisciotte (1727). In 1727 he went to Prague, where he served several families of the nobility as Kapellmeister, instrumentalist, and composer; also was active at the Viennese and Silesian courts, and in Breslau. In 1740 he was made Kapellmeister to the court of Karl Schaff-gotsch of Hirschberg in Silesia; he eventually settled in Breslau. Among his other works were violin concertos, serenatas, wind partitas, sonatas, sacred music, and arias, most of which are lost.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire