Jakob Suppan

Jakob Suppan (, July 27, 1734 – April 11, 1810) was a composer and musician from the Holy Roman Empire. Early life and education Suppan was born in Schrötten in the Duchy of Styria in the Holy Roman Empire, now part of the municipality of Hengsberg in Styria, in southeast Austria. He was the second of ten children born to the smallholder Hans Suppan and Benigna (née Höller) Suppan, and he was baptized Jacob Suppan. His surname indicates Slovene ancestry on his father’s side; Slovenes once relocated to the Hengsberg area in large numbers from the Haloze region and the Slovene Hills. He probably received his music education from the local organist Andreas Dämb (1702–1753), and he then entered the Jesuit University of Graz in 1749 as the recipient of a scholarship founded by the Hengsberg parish priest Rupert Brenner. His enrollment at the university is recorded as Suppan Jacob, plebejus Hinspergensis ‘Jacob Suppan, a common man from Hengsberg’. Career Suppan relocated to Kamnik (now in Slovenia) before 1757, where he was initially an assistant to the teacher and organist Valentin Götzl. and in 1760 he became Götzl’s successor as the teacher and choirmaster at the women’s church in .