Andreas Weissenbäck
Franz Andreas Weißenbäck (born November 26, 1880 in Sankt Lorenzen am Wechsel , Styria , † March 14, 1960 in Vienna ) was an Austrian musicologist and expert on church bells .
Life
Weißenbäck belonged to the order of the Augustinian Canons and was, among other things, church music consultant in the 1930s. As a collegiate bandmaster, he worked in Klosterneuburg Abbey . In Vienna he taught at the local academy. The founding of the Vienna Chamber Choir goes back to his initiative. He directed this choir for a long time. In 1937 he published the Lexicon of Catholic Church Music . On December 9, 1933 he was the conductor at the world premiere of the oratorio The Holy Leopold , in the Stiftskeller zu Klosterneuburg, a composition by Mathilde Kralik . The Andreas-Weißenbäck-Gasse in Klosterneuburg is named after him.
Works
- Sacra Musica. Lexicon of Catholic Church Music. Klosterneuburg near Vienna: Augustinus-Druckerei, 1937. OCLC 5898456
- The consecration of bells. Vienna: Diocesan Commission for Church Music of the Archdiocese of Vienna, 1948. OCLC 72970998
- with Josef Pfundner : Tönendes Erz. The occidental bell as a sound instrument and the historical bells in Austria . Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Böhlau, Graz 1961.
Web links
- Works by and about Andreas Weißenbäck in the catalog of the German National Library
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SURNAME | Weissenbäck, Andreas |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weißenbäck, Franz Andreas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian musicologist and expert on church bells |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1880 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sankt Lorenzen am Wechsel , Styria |
DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1960 |
Place of death | Vienna |