Alberich Mazak

Alberich Mazak O.Cist. (Czech Alberik Mazák , * 1609 in Ratibor , Upper Silesia; † May 9, 1661 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer , conductor and choir director of Czech origin.

Life

Alberich Mazak came from a Czech family from Upper Silesia. In 1629 he joined the Stift Heiligenkreuz as a graduate philosophicus , was ordained a priest in 1633, was novice master from 1634 to 1639 , cantor chori from 1636–1654 and abbot secretary from 1639–1640 under Abbot Michael Schnabel , who had set up a singing school in Heiligenkreuz . When Emperor Ferdinand III. Visited Heiligenkreuz in 1639, Mazak presented him with three of his compositions, which the emperor then had performed in Vienna. In 1654 Mazak resigned the direction of the Schola; he died in the Heiligenkreuzerhof in Vienna.

His main work, Cultus Harmonicus (1649), consists of three parts: 88 motets , masses and offerings . With the exception of a few Christmas pastoral works in German, most of the compositions are for Latin texts.

literature

• Peter Erhart: Lower Austrian Composers (Vienna 1998), p. 119. ISBN 3-900695-41-5 .
• Florian Watzl: The Cistercians of Heiligenkreuz . Presented in chronological order according to the sources (Graz 1898), p. 77.
• Florian Wieninger: Introduction , in: Vesperae, Baroque Vespers at Stift Heiligenkreuz (supplement to the CD of the Dolce Risonanza, Vienna 2011), pp. 5–15.
• Mazak, Alberich . In: Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsg.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) . 1st edition. tape 13 : Supplement . KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23173-3 , p. 233 .
• Alexander Rausch : Mazak, P. Alberich (Alberik) OCist. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
• Mazak, Pater Albericus , In: Robert Eitner (Ed.): Biographical-Bibliographical Sources-Lexicon of Musicians and Music Scholars of the Christian Era up to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century , Volume 6, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1902, p. 407, ( archive .org ).
• Mazak (Albericus). In: Ernst Ludwig Gerber (Ed.): New historical-biographical lexicon of the Tonkünstler, which provides news of the life and works of musical writers, famous composers, singers, masters of instruments, artful amateurs, music publishers, also organ and instrument makers, older and more recently, from all nations. Part 3 (K - R), Leipzig 1813, p. 370, ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).

Web links

• Works by and about Alberich Mazak in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Alberich Mazak in the database of the state's memory for the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• Website with curriculum vitae and facsimile edition of Cultus Harmonicus (in Czech).
• Information about Mazak (in English).