Alfred Hochedlinger

Alfred Hochedlinger (born April 17, 1963 ) is an Austrian religious and music educator as well as church musician and composer .

education and profession

After graduating from the Bundeshandelsakademie Perg (1983), Hochedlinger completed his training as a religion teacher for compulsory schools at the Religious Education Academy of the Diocese of Linz from 1983 to 1986 .

He received organ lessons from Wolfgang Fürlinger (organ lessons), who encouraged his interest in church music as well as the desire for improvisation and composition, and was trained as a choirmaster by Anton Reinthaler .

The qualified pedagogue works as a religion teacher at the Mauthausen elementary school . Until 1989 he worked as an employee of the Diocese of Linz as youth leader for the dean's office in Perg and until 1995 for the parish of Mauthausen. Since 1993 he has been a music educator for religious teachers at the Pedagogical University of the Diocese of Linz with the subjects singing in religious instruction , musical design and liturgy, musical and artistic design .

His involvement in the parish includes pastoral tasks, public relations and church music. He is organist in the parish church of Mauthausen and directs the choir of the parish Mauthausen (CPM) viva musica , which he founded in 1981 . Many of his choral compositions were developed with the ensemble and presented to the public for the first time.

The memorial concert 50 Years of the Liberation of Mauthausen Concentration Camp , published by Kurt Lettner jointly by the Mauthausen Singing Circle and the Mauthausen Parish Youth Choir under the direction of Hochedlinger , achieved supraregional reception mainly due to the topic.

Hochedlinger deals intensively with church music of all epochs, but especially with the new sacred songs . In addition to the masters of classical music, role models for his compositional work include the founder of sacropop Peter Janssens and the British composer and conductor John Rutter .

Some of his works are published by publishers such as Carus-Verlag , Stuttgart , Coppenrath Verlag , Altötting , Musikverlag Doblinger , Vienna , Helbling Verlag , Innsbruck , Buchhandlung Heyn , Klagenfurt am Wörthersee or Strube-Verlag , Munich , for the most part but self-published .

Awards

• Silver medal and note in silver of the Austrian Singers Association
• Silver and gold medals of the market town of Mauthausen,
• Ingrid Steininger Kulturförderpreis of the market community Mauthausen together with the choir of the parish Mauthausen and Werner Wöckinger for the cantata Homo homini lupus (2010)

Works (selection)

Hochedlinger has created sacred music for choir a cappella and with accompaniment up to the orchestra, including eight masses and ten psalm settings, more than one hundred new sacred songs for school and church services, more than eighty Advent and Christmas carols, three children's masses, various school music, theater music and music on the subject of the Holocaust:

New spiritual songs

• The lord is my shepherd
• The Lord bless and keep you
• Tell me where is Bethlehem
• Anything that disturbs life
• Rejoice all, Jesus lives
• You are a gift from heaven
• Understand each other
• Bread and wine are signs
• The miracles from back then
• The child is born at night
• Holy people
• Saint Nicholas, we call you
• Jesus human brother
• Praise, praise, sing a song
• Bless this child
• See the bread

Great psalm settings

• I will praise you, Lord (Psalm 18)
• The heavens extol the glory of God (Psalm 19)
• The Lord is my Shepherd (Psalm 23)
• To You, Lord, I lift up my soul (Psalm 25)
• The Lord is my light and my salvation (Psalm 27)
• How beautiful it is to give thanks to the Lord (Psalm 92)
• Shout out before the Lord, all the lands of the earth (Psalm 100)
• I lift up my eyes to the mountains (Psalm 121)
• You embrace me on all sides (Psalm 139)
• Praise God in his sanctuary (Psalm 150)

measure up

• Deutsche Messe in F, premiered (premiere) 1991
• German Mass No. 2 (WP 1992)
• Saint Nicholas Mass (WP 1992)
• Sankt Hubertus Messe (WP 1995)
• A glow lay over the world. Christmas Mass (WP 1995)
• That night salvation appeared. Christmas Mass (WP 2003)
• Missa in honorem Sancti Floriani (WP 2004)
• Today the Savior is born to you. Christmas fair (WP 2007)
• Fair "As far as the sky is" (WP 2014)
• Fair "In our middle" (WP 2015)

Motets

• Resurrexit sicut dixit (WP 2014)

Children's fairs, children's songs, school music

• Mauthausen children's fair
• Children's fair "Lebensquell"
• Children's fair "Center"
• Children's fair "accepted"
• Singing is cool
• My granny
• Christmas story in songs
• Quiet, quiet, quiet time
• Turn on the first light

Cantatas

• Homo monini lupus. About life, suffering and liberation in the Mauthausen concentration camp (WP 2007/2010)
• Delicately touched by the glow. Christmas Cantata (WP 2014)

Stage works, theater music

• The murder lottery (Text: Werner Wöckinger)
• All fairy tales (Text: Werner Wöckinger)
• The game under the gallows (Text: Leopold Wandl )

Instrumental music

• Rhapsodia super "Veni creator spiritus" (WP 2013)

Publications

In addition to numerous self-published publications, several compositions and collections have been published through publishers:

• You will stay forever , Stuttgart 2009
• You embrace me on all sides , Stuttgart, 2009
• I lift my eyes to the mountains , Stuttgart, 2009
• I want to praise you, Lord , Stuttgart, 2008
• Rejoice before the Lord, all countries of the world , Stuttgart, 2008
• How nice it is to thank the Lord , Stuttgart 2008
• The Lord is my Shepherd , Stuttgart 2007
• Great day: 11 Spirituals for mixed choir , Innsbruck, 1994, 2000
• A glow lay over the world , Klagenfurt 1998, 2000

Essays

• Parish Church of St. Nicholas in Mauthausen , Volume 394, “Austria's Christian Art Centers”, Salzburg, 2003
• The Mauracher Organ (1897 to 2000) and On the History of Church Music in the Parish Church of St. Nikolaus zu Mauthausen , in: Mauthausner Orgelfestschrift 2000, Mauthausen, 2000

Web links

• Alfred Hochedlinger's website
• Works by and about Alfred Hochedlinger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Hochedlinger , in: Web presence of the parish Mauthausen , accessed on December 15, 2015
2. ^ Curriculum vitae of Alfred Hochedlicher on Alfred Hochedlinger's website ( memento from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), requested on March 22, 2013
3. ^ Alfred Hochedlinger , in: Web presence of the parish Mauthausen , accessed on December 15, 2015
4. ↑ http://www.dioezese-linz.at/redaktion/data/bo_praktikant/Linzer_Di%C3%B6zesanblatt_August-September_1989.PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Link not available)  
5. ↑ http://www.dioezese-linz.at/redaktion/data/bo_praktikant/Linzer_Di%C3%B6zesanblatt_1._September_1995.PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Link not available)  
6. ↑ Bernhard Leitner: Alfred Hochedlinger - From a teacher and composer who likes to set the pace , OÖN online edition of June 12, 2006 , requested on March 22, 2013
7. ^ Commemorative concert 50 years of the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp, PG Records, Linz, 1995
8. ^ Hochedlinger, Alfred, Dipl. Paed. , in: Website Die Musiksammlung des Landes Oberösterreich , requested on March 23, 2013
9. ↑ 25 years of the Mauthausen Parish Choir , in: Website of the Mauthausen Parish Choir (PDF; 417 kB), requested on March 23, 2013
10. ↑ Kulturförderpreis , in: Website of the market town of Mauthausen , accessed on March 23, 2013
11. ^ Alfred Hochedlinger, Neue Geistliche Musik, website of Alfred Hochedlinger ( memento of January 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 23, 2013
12. ↑ Teacher composes choral works for concentration camp horror , in: OÖ. News online from March 9, 2010 , accessed on March 24, 2013