Alois Pacher

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Alois Pacher , occasionally written Aloys Pacher , (born April 8, 1822 in Munich , † August 25, 1883 in Munich) was a German composer, choir director and music teacher.

Life

The son of the singing teacher and tenor Anton Pacher (1774–1845) attended the elementary school and the Latin school in Munich. He received his basic musical education from his father, who taught as a music teacher at the Cadet Corps and as a singing teacher at the Latin school. In 1841, at the age of 19, Alois Pacher stood in for his father and, after his retirement, took over his position at the Latin school in the school year 1844/45. With the establishment of the three Munich grammar schools, he was taken over as a subject teacher for singing at the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich by a ministerial resolution of November 11, 1849 and promoted to music conductor (choir director) in 1863. Appointed Knight of the Order of Merit of St. Michael in 1877, he also took on the role of choir director at the St. Michael Court Church . He was on leave from January 1881 due to illness and was relieved of his position in February 1882. His substitute was the composer and court musician Johann Nepomuk Cavallo , who after the death of Pacher was finally given the position of music and singing teacher at the school.

Alois Pacher lived in Munich all his life. He was married to Antonia Schwarz (* 1822), the daughter of the school and drawing teacher Augustin Schwarz (1791–1842) from Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm ; Of their nine children, only their daughter Aloisia - she became a singer and piano teacher - and their son Augustin Pacher - he worked as an art and glass painter - reached adulthood.

In addition to his teaching activities, Pacher also composed his own pieces of music - some under the pseudonym A. Weisshaupt - and arranged and copied numerous works by other composers.

Works

Alois Pacher composed polyphonic choirs, alternating chants (antiphonies, reponsories, graduals) and hymns, including:

  • Misere mei Deus , psalm for 4 voices; last stanza 8-stimming, in A flat major (1854)
  • Stabat Mater , four-part and double-choir, Munich, February 23, 1855
  • Turnerchor in E flat major by Weisshaupt / Alois Pacher (1860)
  • Stabat mater , double choir with 4 voices in G minor (1860)
  • Spring Choir in D major with orchestral accompaniment, composed by A. Weisshaupt / A. Pacher (1872)
  • Deo gratias , chorale melody based on the new Regensburg Missal for the Advent and Lent Sundays, in F major (1878)

In addition, Pacher arranged and copied works by u. a. Felice Anerio , Johann Christian Bach , Giovanni Battista Casali , Karl Ludwig Drobisch , Caspar Ett , Christian Geisser, Joseph Haydn , Michael Haydn , Niccolò Jommelli , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Giovanni Maria Nanino , Jacob Obrecht , Johannes Ockeghem , Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina , Robert Lucas Pearsall , Giovanni Battista Pergolesi , Costanzo Porta , João IV Rei de Portugal (1604–1656), Eduard Rottmanner , Ludwig Senfl , Louis Spohr , Francesco Antonio Vallotti , Georg Joseph Vogler , Tomás Luis de Victoria and Anton Zimmermann .

Fonts

  • Letter to the music publisher Ed. Bote and G. Bock, Berlin. Cassel, March 10, 1854: Berlin, State Library
  • Letter to unknown, Munich, August 3, 1868: Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  • Alois Pacher estate with the sheet music manuscripts: Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

literature

  • Registration documents (PMB: Pacher, Alois ), Munich, city archive
  • Pacher, Alois , in: Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon online (BMLO)
  • OPAC of the Bavarian State Library in Munich (online)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon online (BMLO)
  2. ↑ Directory of those pupils who in the school year 1830/31 in the elementary schools of the royal capital and residence city of Munich made themselves worthy of public awards or prominent announcement, together with a preliminary report on the condition of these schools. Munich, September 5, 1831
  3. ^ Annual report on the Royal Latin School in Munich , 1835/36, p. 20
  4. ^ Annual report on the Royal Latin School in Munich , 1841/42, p. 15
  5. ^ Annual report on the Royal Latin School in Munich , 1844/45
  6. ^ Address book Munich 1874 (online): Pacher Alois, choir director, Dienerg. 5
  7. ↑ Andreas and Ingrid Sauer / Stadt Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm (ed.): The street names of the community Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm and its parts of the community . "Pfaffenhofen town history (s)" No. 5, December 2005, p. 11
  8. ↑ * May 14, 1850 Munich; † August 8, 1923; Registration documents (PMB Pacher, Aloisia ): Munich, City Archives, Pacher, Aloisia in: Bavarian Musicians Lexicon online (BMLO)
personal data
SURNAME Pacher, Alois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pacher, Aloys; Weisshaupt, Alois (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1883
Place of death Munich