I don't fully know the answer, but i know it was someone who was hired by the King to create music for an orchestra or something..
I am adding to this answer, with my understanding of the obligations of a "modern day" court composer. It actually is drastically different. It is a title that carries with it, great honor and responsibility. Highly sought after. Duties include making jokes, immediately notifying me [head of court] if Weird Al tickets go on sale, contributing to my chin de-prunization Botox fund, and finding my retainer. So I believe that it is a highly customizable role. I have included a link below as well for better reference.
Antonio Salieri. He was an Italian composer and is believed to be Mozart's enemy, mostly because of the film Amadeus. Which is why some people believe that Mozart was murdered by Salieri
Salieri
In the Amadeus film he is played by F Murray Abraham
Yes, yes he was.
Saleri position was not very high but he still managed to be the court composer of the Emperor of Austria.
No, Ludwig Von Beethoven was a German composer and spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria.
He was from Salzburg in what is now Austria.
Mozart wrote and played several operas for the emperor of Vienna Austria when he was 26 in 1782 he met the emperor in which he played for
He was born, lived in, and died in Vienna, Austria.
Saleri position was not very high but he still managed to be the court composer of the Emperor of Austria.
Saleri position was not very high but he still managed to be the court composer of the Emperor of Austria.
No, Ludwig Von Beethoven was a German composer and spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria.
Beethoven died in Vienna, Austria.
Vienna, Austria
Vienna Austria January 31, 1797
Emperor Franz Josef died on November 21, 1916, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria].
Franz Peter Schubert was NOT born in Germany. He was born in Vienna, Austria.
He was from Salzburg in what is now Austria.
Emperor Franz Josef was born on August 18, 1830, in Vienna, Austrian Empire [now Austria].
Chamber Composer, by Emperor Joseph the 2nd. The appointment was during the month of December.
Based on the career of the great composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), "Amadeus" is set in Vienna, Austria at the court of the late 18th-century Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II. Some portions of the 1984 Academy Award-winning Best Picture were filmed in Vienna.