Famous People with Name Ignaz

Ignaz Fränzl            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ignaz Fränzl: was a German violinist, composer and representative of the second generation of the so-called Mannheim School.[2] Mozart who heard him at a concert in November 1777 wrote of him in a letter to his father: He may not be a sorcerer, but he is a very solid violinist indeed.[3] Fränzl carried the Mannheim violin technique, established by Johann Stamitz, one step further to real virtuosity. Mozart, quite a good violinist himself and thoroughly acquainted with the instrument, praised Fränzl’s double trill and said he had never heard a better one.

Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer: was a composer of symphonies, concertos, operas, and chamber music, and a member of the Mannheim school. His aesthetic style is in line with that of the Sturm und Drang "movement" of German art and literature. His opera Günther von Schwarzburg, based on the life of the eponymous king (and described here), was an early German national opera, a performance of which Mozart and his sister attended, through which they met Anton Raaff, who was later to premiere a role in Idomeneo. This opera has recently been recorded on the label cpo.

Ignaz Lachner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ignaz Lachner: was a German composer and conductor. Ignaz Lachner was born into a musical family at Rain am Lech. He was the second of the three famous Lachner brothers. Lachner's brothers Franz and Vinzenz, were also composers. His older brother Franz was the best known, having heavily traded on his youthful friendship with Franz Schubert, certainly more than Ignaz who also knew Schubert. Ignaz was taught (as were the others) organ, piano and violin. Upon the latter instrument, he was somewhat of a prodigy, but despite this, his father insisted he become a teacher. After his father’s death, he studied violin with Bernhard Molique, a violin virtuoso and then joined his brother Franz in Vienna where he too befriended and was influenced by Schubert, not to mention Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

Ignaz Jastrow            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ignaz Jastrow: was a German economist and historian, born in Nakel and educated at the universities of Breslau, Berlin, and Göttingen. He became a university docent at Berlin in 1885 and was Leopold von Ranke's assistant in historical work.

Ignaz Maybaum            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ignaz Maybaum: was a rabbi and 20th century liberal Jewish theologian. In 1935 he was arrested by the Gestapo, spending six weeks in prison before being released. In 1939 he left Germany on a Kindertransport and went to London, England. His mother and sisters were killed in the Holocaust. In 1949 he became rabbi of the Edgware and District Reform Synagogue. From 1956 until his retirement in 1963, he lectured in homiletics and theology at Leo Baeck College. He was also active in inter-religious dialogue. His students include Nicholas de Lange.