Andreas Weissenbäck

Franz Andreas Weißenbäck (born November 26, 1880 in Sankt Lorenzen am Wechsel , Styria , † March 14, 1960 in Vienna ) was an Austrian musicologist and expert on church bells .

Life

Conductor Andreas Weißenbäck at a world premiere in 1933

Weißenbäck belonged to the order of the Augustinian Canons and was, among other things, church music consultant in the 1930s. As a collegiate bandmaster, he worked in Klosterneuburg Abbey . In Vienna he taught at the local academy. The founding of the Vienna Chamber Choir goes back to his initiative. He directed this choir for a long time. In 1937 he published the Lexicon of Catholic Church Music . On December 9, 1933 he was the conductor at the world premiere of the oratorio The Holy Leopold , in the Stiftskeller zu Klosterneuburg, a composition by Mathilde Kralik . The Andreas-Weißenbäck-Gasse in Klosterneuburg is named after him.

Works

• Sacra Musica. Lexicon of Catholic Church Music. Klosterneuburg near Vienna: Augustinus-Druckerei, 1937. OCLC 5898456
• The consecration of bells. Vienna: Diocesan Commission for Church Music of the Archdiocese of Vienna, 1948. OCLC 72970998
• with Josef Pfundner : Tönendes Erz. The occidental bell as a sound instrument and the historical bells in Austria . Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Böhlau, Graz 1961.

Web links

• Works by and about Andreas Weißenbäck in the catalog of the German National Library