Carl Proske

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Carl Proske, portrait as canon at the old chapel

Carl Proske (born February 11, 1794 in Gröbnig near Leobschütz , Upper Silesia , † December 20, 1861 in Regensburg ) was a German collector and publisher of church music , reformer of Catholic church music, doctor and clergyman .

life and work

Title page of the first volume of the Musica Divina Collection (1853) with the intended purpose ad instaurandam polyphoniam vere ecclesiasticam - "to introduce a truly ecclesiastical polyphony"

Carl Proske was born the son of a landowner in Gröbnig in Upper Silesia. Actually, the young Carl was the good take, but he changed his mind: After the high school in Leobschütz had finished, he studied in Vienna medicine . He was only able to do this because his father's second wife brought a male heir into the marriage. In 1813 Proske joined the Wars of Liberation , from which he did not return until 1815. A year later Proske took his medical studies in Halle (Saale) back to where he on June 1, 1816 Doctor of Medicine doctorate .

After various activities and high awards as a practicing doctor, Proske renounced a brilliant career in the Prussian civil service, gave up his position as a district physician in Pless and, at the suggestion of his later close friend and bishop of Regensburg Johann Michael Sailer, decided to study theology in Regensburg . In 1826 Proske was ordained a priest in Regensburg Cathedral . His first position was a choir vicariate at the old chapel in Regensburg and in 1830 King Ludwig I awarded him a canonical at the old chapel. From this point on, Proske devoted himself more and more intensively to his music studies. His aim was "a dignified furnishing and entertainment of the church service by removing the reprehensible and impure and absorbing the real and pure, by devoting the most perfect attention to the holiness of the liturgy ."

From 1834 to 1836, after being on leave from the “studiorum causa” monastery , Proske made his first trip to Italy (especially Rome and Naples) with the aim of collecting copies of works of the classical vocal polyphony of the 16th century. Although Proske had amassed an impressive library before his trip , the ardent researcher was not satisfied with that and wanted to study the musical treasures on site. This was followed by a second journey in 1837 and a third journey in 1838 in the footsteps of old Italian masters. a. led to Bologna, Florence, Padua and Venice. From 1853 to 1864 Proskes' fundamental four-volume work Musica Divina (performed by Franz Xaver Haberl ) appeared, which contains chants for all liturgical areas (Volume 1: 12 masses; Volume 2: motets for the entire church year; Volume 3: polyphonic Vespers; Volume 4 posthumously : Holy Week chants , litanies , Te Deum , etc.). Proske was supported by the former choir regent of the Old Chapel, Johann Georg Mettenleiter , who also began to put Proske's findings on the restoration of church music in the Old Chapel into practice. Proske, as a central figure in this restoration of Catholic church music , laid the foundation for the church music reform movement of Cäcilianism . His place of work, the Old Chapel, became the starting point for this movement in the following century. The church composer Michael Haller should be mentioned here in particular . Proske is also considered a pioneer of the Regensburg Cathedral Sparrows and founder of the Regensburg tradition . Its music library comprises more than 1,200 copies of works by Old Masters from the 15th to 17th centuries and is now part of the Regensburg Episcopal Central Library.

reception

At the inauguration of the Pope Benedict Organ in the Collegiate Church of Our Lady of the Old Chapel on September 13, 2006, Benedict XVI. with reference to Proske: In the 19th century, a canon of this monastery, Carl Joseph Proske, provided significant impulses for the renewal of church music. The Gregorian chant and the old classical vocal polyphony were integrated into the liturgical process. The maintenance of liturgical church music in the old chapel was of supraregional importance and made Regensburg a center of the church music reform movement, the effects of which continue to the present day.

literature

  • Episcopal Central Library Regensburg (Proskesche Music Department): Thematic catalog of the music manuscripts. Henle, Munich 1989ff.
    • Volume 1: Gertraut Haberkamp: Proske Collection: Manuscripts from the 16th and 17th centuries from the shelfmarks AR, B, C, AN. 1989, ISBN 3-87328-053-1 (contains: August Scharnagl: History of the Proskeschen Musiksammlung. )
    • Volume 2: Gertraut Haberkamp and Jochen Reutter: Proske Collection: Manuscripts of the 18th and 19th centuries from the shelfmarks AR, C, AN. 1989, ISBN 3-87328-054-X
    • Volume 3: Gertraut Haberkamp and Jochen Reutter: Proske Collection - Portfolio Library. 1991, ISBN 3-87328-062-0
    • Volume 4: Christofer Schweisthal: Collegiate Foundation of Our Lady of the Old Chapel, St. Peter's Cathedral and Collegiate Foundation for Saints Johann Baptist and Johann Evangelist in Regensburg. 1995, ISBN 978-3-87328-078-6
    • Volume 5: City parish church St. Jakobus and Tiburtius in Straubing. 1995, ISBN 978-3-87328-079-3
    • Volume 6: Johannes Hoyer: Franz Xaver Haberl Library. Manuscripts BH 7866 to BH 9438. 1996, ISBN 978-3-87328-081-6
    • Volume 7: Dieter Haberl: Franz Xaver Haberl Library. Manuscripts BH 6001 to BH 6949. 2000, ISBN 978-3-87328-103-5
    • Volume 8: Dieter Haberl: Franz Xaver Haberl Library. Manuscripts BH 7055 to BH 7865 (Appendix: BH 8076 to BH 9340). 2000, ISBN 978-3-87328-104-2
    • Volume 9: Gertraud Haberkamp and Bernat Cabero Pueyo: Mettenleiter Collection, Authors A to P. 1998, ISBN 978-3-87328-091-5
    • Volume 10: Gertraud Haberkamp and Bernat Cabero Pueyo: Mettenleiter Collection, Authors Q to Z, Anonyma and Collections. 1998, ISBN 978-3-87328-092-2
    • Volume 11: Raymond Dittrich: Signature group Mus. ms. Authors AP. 2004, ISBN 978-3-87328-114-1
    • Volume 12: Raymond Dittrich: Signature group Mus. ms. Authors QZ, Anonyma and Collections. 2004, ISBN 978-3-87328-115-8
    • Volume 13: Dieter Haberl: Musicians' Letters 1 Authors A to R. 2007, ISBN 978-3-87328-121-9
    • Volume 14: Dieter Haberl: Musicians' letters 2 authors S to Z and biographical notes. 2007, ISBN 978-3-87328-122-6

Web links

Commons : Carl Proske  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The consecration of the Pope Benedict organ
personal data
SURNAME Proske, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Proske, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Gröbnig , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1861
Place of death regensburg