Caspar half-body

Caspar Halbib (* 1798 in Kis Dorogh , Holy Roman Empire ; † around 1850) was a Hungarian-German church musician and composer .

Life

After attending normal school and teacher training college, half-body worked as a singer a. a. at churches in Kolovac , Komorn and Győr and for a year at the Timisoara Cathedral under the direction of Cathedral Cantor Joseph Kratochwill . From 1822 to 1838 he worked as an organist, choirmaster and teacher in Neuarad, a village that today belongs to Arad , where he had an organ and a small orchestra. This is where his Gradual for Holy Christmas for four-part choir, strings, flute, clarinets, horns, trumpet and organ was created. The work is preserved in a copy by Anton Leopold Hermann , a successor to Halbib as organist and cantor, from 1845 and was revised after 1900 by Josef Weninger , also organist in Neuarad.

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• Edition Musik Südost - Caspar half-body