Franz Seraphin Hölzl
Franz Seraphin Thomas Hölzl (born March 14, 1808 in Malaczka , Austrian Empire , † August 18, 1884 in Pécs , Kingdom of Hungary ) was an Austrian composer , choirmaster and church musician .
Life
Hölzl attended the singing school of the Piarist High School in Vienna's Josephstadt and sang in the church choir. From 1823 he received training at the music institute of Ferdinand Pálffys kk private Theater an der Wien in singing, violin, violoncello, piano and figured bass. After the institute closed in 1827, he continued his training with Erasmus Kessler and Ignaz von Seyffried and sang in the Vienna Opera Choir. At the same time he taught figured bass from 1827 to 1830 at the Musikverein to educate school-leavers for real church music at St. Anna . During this time he was friends with the poet Nikolaus Lenau and the composer Franz Schubert .
From 1830 Hölzl worked for a year as music master for the Lubomirski family in Poland, then he lived as a teacher in Vienna. Here he had his first successes as a composer with Lauda Sion and the oratorio Noah (text by Anton Ritter von Perger ), which was performed in 1841 by a choir and orchestra made up of members of the Hof Opera Theater and conducted by Georg Hellmesberger .
In 1841 Hölzl went to Innsbruck as the artistic director of the Musikverein, and from 1843 he was Kapellmeister in the Pécs Cathedral for nineteen years . Here he founded the Liedertafel ( Pécsi Dalárda ) in 1847, the first director and choirmaster of which he became and which lasted until the end of the century. In 1844 he performed his oratorio Noah with 500 participants in the Great Redoutensaal of the Vienna Hofburg . For the coronation mass dedicated to Emperor Franz Joseph I , he was awarded the Golden Medal for Art and Science in 1852 .
In the archive of the Pécs Cathedral alone there are more than one hundred works of church music by Hölzl, including numerous masses, offertories, psalms, hymns and requiem. He also composed two concert overtures for orchestra, a symphony, seven string quartets and three quintets, two sonatas for violin and piano and the opera Colonna (1847).
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hölzl, Franz Seraphin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hölzl, Franz Seraphin Thomas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer, choir director and church musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malaczka |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 18, 1884 |
| Place of death | Pécs |