Editing Franz Danzi (section)

==Life and career==
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Born in [[Schwetzingen]] and raised in [[Mannheim]], Danzi studied with his father and with [[Georg Joseph Vogler]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Eliza |date=2012-12-23 |title=Franz Danzi (1763-1826) {{!}} Biography, Music & More |url=https://interlude.hk/franz-danzi/ |access-date=2024-11-01 |website=Interlude |language=en-US}}</ref> before he joined the superlative orchestra of the Elector [[Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria|Karl Theodor]] in 1778 as a teenager. 

In 1780, the first of his woodwind compositions was published at Mannheim. His father, principal cellist of the orchestra, was praised by [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] for his playing at the premiere of ''[[Idomeneo]]''. Danzi remained behind in a Mannheim that was rendered more provincial when Karl Theodor moved his court to [[Munich]] in 1778. After an apprenticeship with the small theatre orchestra left in Mannheim, he rejoined the main court in Munich as principal cellist — taking his father's position — in 1784.

In 1790, he married the singer and composer [[Margarethe Danzi|Maria Margarethe Marchand]], with whom he travelled in an opera troupe to Leipzig, Prague, Venice, and Florence.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Franz Danzi {{!}} Classical Music, Wind Quintets, Cellist {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Franz-Danzi |access-date=2024-11-01 |website=Britannica |language=en}}</ref>

By 1798, once more in Munich, he rose to the position of assistant [[Kapellmeister]] in one of the most important musical centers of Europe. In 1807, unhappy at the treatment he received at court and despairing of any further advancement, he left Munich to be Kapellmeister in the smaller and less important [[Stuttgart]] court of the new king of [[Württemberg]], [[Frederick of Württemberg|Frederick I]], where he supported and influenced the work of [[Carl Maria von Weber]]. 

In 1812, he moved again to [[Karlsruhe]], where he spent the last years of his life at the Royal Konservatorium struggling to raise the modest courtly musical establishment to respectability.