Franz Joseph Aloys Antony

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Franz Joseph Aloys Antony (born February 1, 1790 in Münster ; † January 7, 1837 there ) was a German Catholic clergyman, church musician, pedagogue and author.

Life

Franz Joseph Aloys Antony was born as the son of Joseph Antony (* January 12, 1758; † 1836), cathedral organist in Münster and his wife Bernhardina (* unknown; † 1826), born. Möllers, born.

He attended elementary school , then came to the Lambert Trivial School under Rector Oliva and then attended the Paulinische Gymnasium . In 1808 he began his studies at the philosophical faculty of the University of Münster and switched to the theological faculty in the following year. In 1813 he received the priestly ordination and in the same year took over the vicariate of the Lamberti parish church ; at the same time he took over part of the lessons in the Lamberti Trivial School for a few years. Despite his extensive official activities and linguistic and literary work, he continued his musical and especially music-scientific studies, and gained extensive knowledge especially in liturgical singing and organ building.

In the summer of 1819 he was appointed to the Ministry of Clergy, Teaching and Medical Affairs in Berlin . There he was supposed to perfect his training in personal contact with other church musicians. In comparison with the other musicians, however, he showed himself to be on a par, sometimes even superior. Professor Carl Friedrich Zelter acknowledged his abilities in writing in an approving manner. After his return in the fall of 1819, at the beginning of the new school year, he took over singing lessons at the newly organized grammar school as a professor and at the same time gave lectures on church music at the university, which had since been downgraded to an "academic institution". At the same time he succeeded the late choir director Varro.

In 1825 he made two trips to Cologne as archbishop's commissioner to investigate the church singing there. In spring 1833 he traveled to Trier on behalf of the cathedral chapter, where he was supposed to supervise the repair or the new construction of the cathedral organ there due to his professional competence. In 1832 he gave up singing lessons at the grammar school for health reasons and took over the vacant position as organist in St. Paulus Cathedral .

Fonts (selection)

As an author
As editor
  • Practice ss. rituum ac ceremoniarum, quibus in augustissimo missae sacrificio caeterisque per annum festivitatibus solemnioribus ecclesia utitur: attendendo ad ritum Romanum et Monasteriensem; accedunt benedictio fontis in vigiliis paschae et pentecostes, commendatio animae in exequiis solemnibus, missa pro sponso et sponsa, nec non aliquae cantiones sacrae, subjectis characteribus choralibus / ed. notasque congruentes ex probatis authoribus adiecit J. Antony ; Münster: Coppenrath 1831.
As a composer
  • Of his, mainly liturgical, compositions, only songs and four funeral masses have been printed. His other musical works, often occasional compositions, remained unedited.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New necrology of the Germans . BF Voigt., 1839 ( google.de [accessed on January 17, 2018]).
  2. ^ ADB: Antony, Franz Joseph Aloys - Wikisource. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
  3. ^ German biography: Antony, Franz Joseph Aloys - German biography. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
  4. ^ Franz Joseph Antony - MünsterWiki. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Ferdinand Simon Gaßner : Universal-Lexikon der Tonkunst: new manual edition in one volume: based on the larger work, p. 66 . Köhler, 1849 ( google.de [accessed June 13, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Antony, Franz Joseph Aloys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Antony, Franz Joseph; Antony, Joseph; Antony, Josef; Antony, Franz Joseph Alois; Antony, Franz Josef; Antony, Franz J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic clergyman, church musician, educator and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1837
Place of death Muenster