Carl Santner
Carl Santner , also Karl , (born January 26, 1819 in Salzburg , † April 19, 1885 ibid) was an Austrian correctional officer and composer .
Life
Carl Santner was a chapel boy in Salzburg . He received music and composition lessons from Joachim Fuetsch , a Leopold Mozart and Michael Haydn student. After graduating from school in Linz , he started a civil service career. In 1857 he became the administrator of the prison in Garsten ( Upper Austria ); there he met Robert Führer , who was imprisoned in Garsten in 1859/60, and deepened his compositional technique with him. In 1866 he became head of the juvenile detention center in Suben (Upper Austria). He organized music lessons in both institutions and led a. a. Masses by Joseph Haydn and WA Mozart . At the same time he developed his own intensive compositional and music didactic activity.
In 1870 he retired due to illness and returned to Salzburg. There he worked for the next fifteen years as a choirmaster at St. Peters Stift , as secretary of the Mozarteum and as president of the Cecilia Society .
Create
More than 100 of Santner's choral works have appeared in print. Many have been part of the repertoire of choral societies in the German-speaking area for decades . His later sacred works are indebted to the style ideal of Cecilianism .
His Handbuch der Tonsetzkunst (1866) and his contributions to violin technique were widely used . He laid down his music-pedagogical experience in the penal system in the essay Music as a psychological education and remedy (1864).
Santner's solemn resurrection song “Der Heiland erstand” is known and loved in the region to this day ( God's praise diocesan edition Regensburg No. 791).
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Santner, Karl . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 28th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, pp. 206–208 ( digitized version ).
- Constantin Schneider: History of Music in Salzburg , Salzburg 1935, Reprint Hildesheim 1977, p. 178
- E. Hintermaier: Santner Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 418.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Santner, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Santner, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian civil servant and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1885 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |