Cassian Reiser

Cassian Reiser (born July 24, 1881 in Oberstdorf ; † April 16, 1956 in Augsburg ) was a German church musician and cathedral music director in Augsburg between 1916 and 1950.

Life

Cassian Reiser was born as the son of the teacher August Reiser (1858-1927) and the glazier daughter Berta Brutscher (1853-1905). He studied theology and was ordained a priest on November 24, 1903, and then celebrated his first mass in the parish church in Grünenbach . After working as an assistant priest in Memmingen , he was called in 1904 as chaplain to Augsburg-Pfersee . In 1907 Reiser became town chaplain in the parish of Augsburg-Ulrich , where he became the owner of the Segenmess benefit the following year. This enabled Cassian Reiser to continue studying at the Academy of Music in Munich . On January 1, 1916, Cassian Reiser - as successor to Joseph Decker - was appointed cathedral music director by Bishop Maximilian von Lingg . As a beneficiary for the St. Margareth Chapel , Reiser also performed pastoral activities. On the night of February 24th to 25th, 1944, a bomb attack destroyed not only the organ and its instruments, but also his apartment in Spitalgasse and most of his banknote values . Due to his poor health towards the end of his term of office, Reiser had to be carried up to the organ loft as cathedral music director . On July 1, 1950, he gave up the office of Domkapellmeister to Paul Steichele. Cassian Reiser died on April 16, 1956 and was buried in the Catholic cemetery on Hermanstrasse in Augsburg.

Cassian Reiser was nicknamed the tie because he often wore a white scarf.

literature

• Herbert Mader: In the shadow of the Augsburg Cathedral . In: Grünenbacher Chronik from the beginnings to the present . 2000. p. 280 f.