Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg: His Short Biography and Aesthetic Representation of His Works

still on the evening before his death at the head of the orchestra in a very crowded concert, in which the famous harmonica player Demoiselle Kirchgeßner let herself be heard on her instrument, and which he had attended in full health. Indeed, when the doctor was called to him in the morning because of an attack of chest cramps likely angina pectoris, he had already recovered so completely that he ate breakfast and chatted with his usual cheerfulness about the concert. His doctor also did not find the slightest worrying symptom in him.

But hardly had he left him when a new attack came, which threw him from the bed in a convulsive movement, and left him dead.

His death was so terribly unexpected that even the doctor had difficulty believing it: but all means of the most strenuous medical science remained fruitless.

He died of a stroke and apoplexy early around ten o'clock on January 27, 1802, at the age of 42.

Demoiselle Kirchgeßner gave another concert for the benefit of his bereaved family.