Ferdinand Fischer (musician)

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Ferdinand Fischer (born Johann Fischer ; born January 12, 1652 in Kuchl , † December 13, 1725 in Buchkirchen ) was an Austrian lute player, composer, music archivist and clergyman.

Life

The musician, later known as Ferdinand Fischer, was born as Johann Baptist Fischer on January 12, 1652 in Kuchl near Hallein . Little is (still) known about Fischer's origins, childhood and youth. When he entered the Benedictine order, he took the name Ferdinand. From 1677 to 1680 he studied theology at the Benedictine University in Salzburg and there probably came into contact with the musical avant-garde around the then court conductor Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber , who was to have a lasting impact on Fischer's later compositional work on the lute. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1680 and celebrated his primacy on January 1, 1681 in Linz . From 1683 to 1685 he taught the grammatical classes in Kremsmünster Abbey . In the school year 1685/86 he was prefect and at the same time museum prefect of the grammar school. He was also a professor of human studies at the University of Salzburg. Around 1691 he was prior of the Kremsmünster Abbey for several years. From 1693 until the end of his life in 1725 he worked as a pastor in Buchkirchen near Wels, where he also died on December 13, 1725.

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Ferdinand Fischer played a precious lute from the workshop of Magnus Tieffenbrucker , who was already famous at the time and which was built in Venice in 1604 . In 1685 it was probably brought into the workshop of the “imperial court instrument maker” Matthias Fux in Vienna, in the form in which it has been preserved in the monastery reigns to this day.

Throughout his life he was well networked with other well-known contemporary lute players such as the imperial official Johann Anton Losy von Losinthal , the court chancellor Ferdinand Ignaz Hinterleithner and the court expeditionary Johann Georg Weichenberger .

In addition to his work as a lutenist, he was also a very keen and quality-conscious collector of music for his instrument. About a third of the extensive lute tablature inventory in Kremsmünster Abbey shows his meticulous and meticulous handwriting.

Many of the works copied by his hand have survived as unique pieces in Kremsmünster and can be assigned to the then leading composers for the instrument due to their clear stylistic characteristics.

During the academic processing and facsimile of the preserved lute music holdings of the monastery, commissioned by Father Altman's Regens Chori in 2012, it turned out that a large proportion of the collections compiled by Father Ferdinand Fischer were previously unknown and could not be found in other tablatures are.

The high level of originality and the unique stylistic features of the newly discovered compositions suggest that they came from the hand of a single author, who is most likely Father Ferdinand Fischer himself. By being freed from the necessity of making a living playing the lute, Ferdinand Fischer was able to formulate his very own lute style free from economic constraints.

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SURNAME Fischer, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lute player, composer, music archivist and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1652
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuchl
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1725
Place of death Buchkirchen