Franz Xaver Lettner

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Franz Xaver Lettner (born January 12, 1760 in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm , † November 6, 1839 in Vohburg an der Donau ) was a German Catholic pastor, musician and composer.

Life

Lettner was used as the son of the sacristan Johann Baptist Lettner (1730–1784) and his wife Maria Catharina Schredinger. Feldmayr, used Nellenbacher (1731 / 32–1819) born, a stepbrother from his mother's first marriage was Georg Feldmayr (1756–1834). As a boy, Lettner attended the monastery seminar in the regulated Augustinian Canons' Monastery of Indersdorf near Dachau, where one of his uncle taught. Because of his soprano voice, Lettner was presented to the nobility in Munich and was given a free place at the Domus Gregoriana, the boarding school of the electoral school in Munich (today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ). In 1777 he graduated from high school there and began the compulsory basic studies (= philosophy) at the adjoining lyceum, which he continued in Neuburg. This was followed by theology studies in Ingolstadt around 1780 . There he appeared as a violin player at academic concerts and made friends with the later Regensburg Bishop Johann Michael Sailer . He was ordained a priest on April 5, 1783.

First, Lettner became a chaplain in Aichach and later in his hometown Pfaffenhofen. With that he was subordinate to the Scheyern monastery , from which he got the table title . When the pastor's position in Vohburg became vacant, the monastery unanimously entrusted him with this position. From 1356 until the secularization of 1803, the Abbot of Scheyern was the “main pastor” of Vohburg under old contracts and had the right to install a deputy. He was invested as pastor on February 18, 1790. During this time he made music, wrote church music and, for the time almost still a violation, two masses in German. He remained pastor in Vohburg until he resigned in 1835. Even thereafter, he remained commorant priest and freely signed dean and jubilee priest until his death in 1839 . In 1837 he composed the verses:

I traveled near and far in my last years,
now into eternity, to experience the real thing.
Constant traveling is our earthly life here.
Where? I know as a Christian. Where? - into a better life!
O God! lead me there! You are my goal and end,
what I longed for with a pious mind.

Works

In addition to several writings on the ecological management of parsonages, he mainly wrote church music, including 1803, two German masses for four voices, two violins, 2 horns ad libitum, viola and organ based on the text by Franz Seraph Kohlbrenner .

literature

  • Franz Karl fields (Hrsg.): Scholars and writers lexicon of the German Catholic clergy. Volume 2. o. Location, 1822
  • Felix Joseph Lipowsky: Baierisches Musik-Lexikon. Munich 1811
  • Joseph Mathes: Vohburg's pastor. o. place, 1898
  • Karl Möckl: The time of the Prince Regent. Society and politics during the era of Prince Regent Luitpold in Bavaria. Munich and Vienna 1972

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leitschuh, Max: The matriculation of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich. 4 vols., Munich 1970–1976; Volume 3, p. 156.
personal data
SURNAME Lettner, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfaffenhofen on the Ilm
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1839
Place of death Vohburg on the Danube