Franz Xaver Haberl

This article describes the church musician Franz Xaver Haberl . For the doctor Franz Xaver Häberl see Franz Xaver von Haeberl .

Franz Xaver Haberl

Franz Xaver Haberl (born April 12, 1840 in Oberellenbach (today Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg ), † September 5, 1910 in Regensburg ) was a German church musician and musicologist .

Life

Haberl was born the son of a teacher in Oberellenbach (Lower Bavaria). He attended the episcopal boys' seminary in Passau, then studied theology in Munich and was ordained a priest there on August 12, 1862 .

During this time Haberl also completed the publication of the fourth volume of the Musica Divina by his teacher Carl Proske, who had recently died .

After working as a music prefect at the seminary in Passau , he devoted himself to musicological studies in the archives and libraries there from 1867 to 1870 as organist of the Church of Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome.

From 1871 to 1882 he served as Director of Music and inspector of Dompräbende in Regensburg, where he founded in 1874 the first Catholic church music school (now the University of Catholic Church Music and Music Education ), which quickly flourished under his guidance. In 1879 he also founded a Palestrina association.

During Haberl's tenure as cathedral music director , new editions of the chorale books appeared under his editorship, closely following the Editio Medicea of 1614. The papal privilege to print this edition for the Pustet printing company was not renewed in 1900, as the research of the Benedictines of Solesmes meanwhile had the versions the Editio Medicae had proven not to be authentic. In 1904 Pope Pius X commissioned a commission to restore the original readings of the chorale songs, the Editio Vaticana , which then replaced the Editio Medicea .

From 1876 he published the Cecilia calendar "for the best of the church music school" , which he expanded in 1886 into the church music yearbook .

After a long study visit to Rome, which was mainly aimed at preparing the complete edition of Palestrina's works , in 1885 he again took over management and teaching of the church music school in Regensburg. He was responsible for the complete edition of Palestrina's works, begun in 1862, from volume 10 to its completion with volume 33 in 1894 (the fourth supplementary volume appeared in 1907). Since 1894 he had also taken over part of the complete edition of the works of Orlando di Lasso (21 volumes, 1894–1927).

Since 1889 he has edited the church music journal Musica sacra founded by Franz Xaver Witt and since 1899 also the flying sheets for Catholic church music (later: Cäcilienvereinsorgan ).

The friend of Liszt and Lorenzo Perosis was appointed honorary canon of the Cathedral of Palestrina in 1879 and elected President of the General German Cecilia Society in 1899 . The University of Würzburg awarded him an honorary doctorate in theology in 1889. In 1908 he received the rank of papal house prelate .

Works & Editions

• Magister choralis. Theoretically practical instruction on Gregorian church chants according to the principles of the Enchiridion chorale and Organum by JG Mettenleiter for clergy, organists, seminars and cantors, edited by FX Haberl. Pustet, Regensburg 1864 (later translated into Ital., Frz., Engl., Span., Polish and Ung.)
• Organum comitans ad Graduale Romanum, quod sub auspiciis sanctissimi Domini nostri Pii. PP. IX. curavit sacrorum rituum congregatio. Proprium et Commune Sanctorum necnon festa pro aliquibus locis transposita et harmonice ornata . Pustet, Regensburg 1875 (with Joseph Hanisch)
• Angelo Bertalotti's fifty two-part solfeggias . Pustet, Regensburg 1881
• Wilhelm you Fay . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1885 (= building blocks for music history, 1)
• Repertorium Musicae Sacrae ex auctoribus saeculi XVI. et XVII. (from 1886, supplement to the church music yearbook, with a new edition of older musical works: masses, motets, falsibordoni)
• Musica Divina, sive thesaurus concentuum selectissimorum omni cultui divino totius anni, juxta ritum Sanctae Ecclesiae Catholicae inserventium (started by Carl Proske), Annus secundus , 4 volumes, Pustet, Regensburg 1886 (with Joseph Schrems)
• The Roman “schola cantorum” and the papal band singers up to the middle of the 16th century . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1888 (= building blocks for music history, 3), previously in: Vierteljahresschrift für Musikwissenschaft 3 (1887), pp. 189–296
• Officium hebdomadae sanctae et octavae paschae / The celebration of the Holy Week of Char and Easter. Latin and German for prayer and song. Pustet, Regensburg 1887
• Bibliographical and thematic music catalog of the papal chapel archive in the Vatican in Rome . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1888 (= building blocks for music history, 2)
• Psalterium vespertinum. Psalmi ad vesperas et completorium per totius anni cursum, mediationum et finalium initiis digestis ad majorem psallentium commoditatem concinnati . Pustet, Regensburg 1888
• Collectio Musices Organicae ex operibus Hieronymi Frescobaldi . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1889
• Organum comitans ad Vesperale Romanum, quod curavit sub auspiciis sanctissimi Domini nostri Pii PP. IX. sacrorum rituum congregatio . Pustet, Regensburg 1877 (with Joseph Hanisch)
• Small gradual and missal book. A prayer and meditation book for church singers and educated laypeople . Pustet, Regensburg 1892

literature

• Utto Kornmüller: Lexicon of the church music art . Volume II, 1892.
• Cl. Bachstefel: Memories of Dr. Franz Xaver Haberl . In: Musica Sacra . 1910, No. 12: "Franz X.Haberl", in musical. Weekly 1910, p. 311 f.
• Karl Weinmann: Dr. Franz Xaver Haberl . In: Musica Sacra . 1910, no.10.
• Karl Weinmann: History of Church Music . 1913.
• Otto origin: Catholic church music . 1931.
• Andreas Weißenbäck: Lexicon of Catholic Church Music . Klosterneuburg near Vienna 1937.
• Max Tremmel: Dr. Franz Xaver Haberl on his 100th birthday . In: Church music magazine of the general Cäcilienverein . Volume 3, 1940, p. 70.
• A. Schirdewahn: Dr. Franz Xaver Haberl as a music educator .
• Ernst Waeltner:  Haberl, Franz Xaver. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 391 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Gustav Fellerer (Ed.): History of Catholic Church Music . Volume II: From the Tridentinum to the present . 1976.
• August Scharnagl: Franz Xaver Haberl (1840–1910) - musician and music researcher. In: Franz A. Stein (Ed.): Sacerdos et Cantus gregoriani Magister. FS Ferdinand Haberl on his 70th birthday . Regensburg 1977, pp. 233-246.

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Xaver Haberl in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Joseph Schrems	Domkapellmeister at Regensburg Cathedral 1871–1882	Michael Haller