Benjamin Ludwig Ramhaufski

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Benjamin Ludwig Ramhaufski (* around 1631 in Prague ; † January 19, 1694 in Lambach ) was an Austrian organist and composer of the Baroque .

life and work

Benjamin Ludwig Ramhaufski came from Prague. He first sang as a chapel boy with Prince Martenitz in Passau . In 1648 he came to Lambach Abbey and began studying the organ. The local abbot Placidus Hieber then hired him as an organist. During the time of his work, the organ builder Christoph Egedacher designed and built the organ that has been preserved to this day .

Ramhaufski married the organist Anna Siemer from Linz in 1655 . The marriage had eight children. The couple also took in some nieces and nephews who had to leave their hometown of Passau after the great fire of 1662 . Ramhaufski's first wife died in November 1678. In May 1679 Ramhaufski married Anna Barbara Weichlein, also from Linz, sister of the composer and Lambach conventual Romanus Weichlein .

Benjamin Ludwig Ramhaufski died on January 19, 1694 in Lambach. An epitaph pays tribute to him at the Lambacher Friedhofskirche :

"Here in God rests well / noble and artful Mr BENIA / MIN LUDOVICUS RAMBHAUFSKI / in the highly praised Closter Lambach in the / 41st year well-appointed organist and composer died in Anno 1694 the 19th / January of his age in the 63rd Year ligt / also be with him Crstl. Haüßfrau Anna / a born Siemerin his other house / wife Anna Barbara a born Weichlin / has this tombstone erected too dearly for you and God compares / you a merry resurrection to the / Eternal Live amen / dear reader don't stand here in a fevered state [?] / Pray our father and AVE MARIA / for us "

In accordance with the commission at his main place of work, Ramhaufski mainly created the church music required in Lambach Abbey. The Benedictine University of Salzburg also commissioned music theater pieces from him. It is unclear whether Ramhaufski also had connections to Moravia. A toccata anonymously handed down in the Kremsier Monastery is attributed to him. The composer Johann Beer is one of Ramhaufski's students .

Ramhaufski's two daughters, Anna Kunigund (1659–1725) and Maria Eleonora (1662–1728) joined the Benedictine women's monastery in Nonnberg in Salzburg, where they both worked as band masters.

Recording

Intensive research work in Lambach since 2002 has brought no works by Ramhaufski to light, his only surviving work is in Kremsmünster, a mass for 23 voices, composed in 1670 and dedicated to Abbot Erenbert Schreyvogl (Missa á 23, Sig.A-Kr / C8,659) . The works of his successor Joseph Balthasar Hochreither are easier to understand in Lambach . One of their masses each (Ramhaufski's "Missa á 23" and Hochreithers "Missa ad multos annos") have now been released on CD ("Gloria in Excelsis Deo" ) under the direction of Gunar Letzbor with the ensemble "Ars Antiqua Austria" and the St. Florian Boys' Choir. ) recorded.

Web links

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  • Peter Deinhammer in the booklet for the CD recording mentioned above
  • Peter Deinhammer: Joseph Balthasar Hochreither (1669–1731) A biography. With special consideration of his work in the Lambach Benedictine Abbey; P. 20ff, Saarbrücken 2009

Individual evidence

  1. Linda Maria Koldau: Frauen-Musik-Kultur: a handbook on the German language area of ​​the early modern period, p. 690