Benno Grueber

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Benno Grueber , baptized Michael Grueber (born September 28, 1759 in Kelheim , † March 18, 1796 in Weltenburg ) was a German church musician, composer and Benedictine priest .

Life

The Weltenburg

Michael Grueber was born on September 28, 1759 in the White Brewery in Kelheim. He spent his high school years as a seminarist at the Domus Gregoriana at the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich , where he also worked as a choir musician at the Jesuit Church of St. Michael . In 1778 he was choir regent in the Augustinian canons of Weyarn , where he had entered as a novice .

In 1779 Grueber moved to the Benedictine Abbey of Weltenburg , where he was admitted to profession a year later and was given the religious name Benno .

After studying in Oberalteich and Weltenburg, Grueber was ordained a priest on June 14, 1783 and celebrated his primacy ten days later .

This was followed by musical studies with Paul Ignaz Kurzinger at the court of the Prince of Thurn and Taxis in Regensburg . After a brief activity as choir regent in Weltenburg Abbey, Grueber became a catechist in the village of Weltenburg in 1784 . From around 1785 he held the office of music director at Weltenburg Abbey. The Bavarikon referred Grueber as one of the best and most popular Bavarian monastic composers of the late 18th century .

His singspiel The Good Subjects , for which the abbot Rupert Kornmann from the convent checkinging had written the libretto , was performed and harvested in 1791 in Munich in front of Elector Karl Theodor , on the stage of Prince von Thurn und Taxis in Regensburg and in several monasteries big applause.

Part of Benno Grueber's musical work has been lost in the turmoil of secularization . His compositions are still performed again and again today, for example at several concerts in the Weltenburg Abbey in 1996 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his death.

Father Benno Grueber died on March 18, 1796 at the age of 36 in Weltenburg.

Works (selection)

  • Missa solemnis in A minor for solos, choir and orchestra
  • Four Marian antiphons for solos, choir and orchestra
  • The grave is empty (Easter motette ) in D major for choir and orchestra
  • The Knight in the Marble Cave on the Danube ( Cantata ) (1788)
  • The good subjects ( Singspiel ) (Libretto: Rupert Kornmann ) (1791)
  • The two village school teachers (Libretto: Rupert Kornmann)
  • The good fisherman or the servants' regiment (libretto: Rupert Kornmann) (first performance posthumously 1799)
  • Lauretanian litany in E flat major for solos, choir and orchestra (1794)

Discography

  • Music from the Benedictine Abbey of Weltenburg , choir of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche Munich , chamber orchestra "Musica Bavarica", choir of the Weltenburger Musikgemeinschaft, conductor: Hans Sedlmaier
  • Anniversary concert on the 200th anniversary of Fr Benno Grueber OSB's death (concert recording from July 13, 1996), choir of the Weltenburger Musikgemeinschaft, Regensburg Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Prof. Josef Kohlhäufl
  • Regina coeli laetare from the Antiphonae Marianae (1793), on: Danube Baroque Part 1 - Sacred Chamber Music from Ulm to Vienna, Consortium Musicum Passau, Wolfgang Schäfer
  • Overture and Ariette (tenor) from the singspiel »Die zween Dorfschullehrer« , based on: Augustiner Canon Monastery Weyarn - sounds from the old music archive, Heinrich Weber (tenor), conductor: Josef Schmidhuber

literature

  • Robert Münster: P. Benno Grueber OSB (1759–1796) and the music in Weltenburg Abbey in the last decades of the 18th century (= series of publications by the Weltenburg Academy. History group. Volume 3.5). Weltenburger Akademie, Abensberg 1996, DNB 949867233 .
  • Erika Bosl: Grueber, Benno. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 279 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich. 4 vols., Munich 1970–1976; Volume 3, p. 156.
  2. ↑ Erika Bosl: Grueber, Benno. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 279 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b History of the monastery on the side of the St. Georg Abbey in Weltenburg.
  4. ^ Annual report 1996 of St. Georg Abbey in Weltenburg.
  5. ↑ The grave is empty in the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales .
  6. ↑ Music from the Benedictine Abbey of Weltenburg (last accessed on March 9, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Grueber, Benno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grueber, Michael (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician, composer and Benedictine priest
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Kelheim
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1796
Place of death Weltenburg