Georg Augustin Holler

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Georg Augustin Holler (born June 18, 1744 in Sperlhammer , Upper Palatinate , † February 13, 1814 in Munich ) was a German composer and city musician in Munich.

Life

Georg August (in) Holler was born in Northern Upper Palatinate from Sperlhammer (see Luhe-Wildenau ), at that time "Machinhammer". He was baptized on June 18, 1744 in Rothenstadt near Weiden in the Upper Palatinate. The Holler family left Sperlhammer around 1750 and found themselves again at Eisenhammer Zangenstein, Altendorf parish (Schwandorf district) on the Schwarzach. The brother Johann Georg was born there, who later became known as the Benedictine priest and monastery composer Aegidius Holler in the Abbey of Attel am Inn.

Georg August Holler was one of the ten band boys of the prince-bishop's court music in Freising under bandmaster Placidus von Camerloher . After the mutation, it was certified that he could be used "anytime in music". He attended the Freising high school. There he wrote in 1763 as "Augustin Holler, Palatinatus" the music for a Latin school performance and in the same year as "Rhetores Studiosus" (pupil of the last high school class) another to applause the rector P. Coelestin Oberdorffer. After repeating the first Lyceum class (logic), he left Freising in 1766.

In 1769 he was to be recorded again: In Munich he married the miller's daughter Maria Anna Übelhör from Wessobrunn as “civis et musicus” on June 26th in the Frauenkirche . In 1773 he applied for a job as town musician and on June 4, 1773 he succeeded town musician Franz Albert. The Munich Town Musicians ( Stadtpfeifer ), a traditional guild, were responsible for public musical life. They were divided into six companies and each assigned to specific districts. There were many occasions for making music: Tower bubbles, weddings, funerals, anniversaries, concerts by day and by night in the city's squares, serenades, dance music in the taverns. They were also partly responsible for church music in the Munich churches, where they also performed their own compositions.

Holler could possibly have been one of the five town musicians that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart heard at the beginning of October 1777 in the Munich inn "Zum schwarzen Adler" in Kaufingerstrasse with a "Musique of 5 people, 2 clarinete, 2 Corni, and 1 fagotto". In a letter to his father Leopold in Salzburg, he writes appreciatively: “They didn't play badly together”.

In 1778 Holler composed his eight-movement Serennata in C, preserved as an autograph score in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City. It is a serenade with an extraordinarily large line-up (two flutes, oboes, clarinets, basset horns, bassoons, four horns, two trumpets and a string orchestra with two violins, viola, cello and violon each) that only a large court orchestra can actually carry out. Since the score shows entries by a Munich court music copyist, it can be assumed that the work was intended for the electoral court.

From 1780 to 1798 Holler was at the Herzoglich Marianische Landesakademie and from 1789 at the military academy ( Bavarian Cadet Corps ) as a “teacher in music” or “exercise master in music” (listed in the “court and state calendar” under “Churfl. Military Academy ”for the years 1795 to 1797). From 1795 Wilhelm Legrand also worked, who also took over Holler's position in 1798. Recorded as a town musician until 1811, Holler died almost completely blind on February 13, 1814 in Munich. The Frauenkirche's book of the dead calls it "Stadtmusicus". In the "History of the Royal Bavarian Cadetten Corps" he is referred to as the "Town Music Master".

The composer wrote numerous secular and sacred works in a simple and popular manner. It is thanks to the collecting activity of Peter Hueber (1766–1843), known as Müllner-Peter , that many of Holler's compositions have been preserved. His sacred works were widespread beyond Upper Bavaria.

The majority of Georg August Holler's works (masses, Vespers, litanies, offerings, etc., symphonies, serenades, parthias and smaller instrumental works) are in the music department of the Bavarian State Library in Munich.

Works

Church music works

  • Mass - Holler, Georg Augustin / Hueber, Peter: Masses, V (4), Coro, org, KauH 56, C major - BSB Mus.ms. 7364, [dust cover:] Nro: 13 // The holy chant for // services in the Roman / Catholic Church // à // Canto Alto // Tenor Basso // con Organo / ( online )

literature

  • Robert Münster: Augustin Holler and his Münchner Adventslieder from 1806, in: Singer and Musicians Newspaper, 12th Jg. H. 6 (1969), p. 131ff.
  • Robert Münster: Augustin Holler from Rothenstadt, a rediscovered composer from Upper Palatinate, in: Oberpfälzer Heimat 14. Jg., (1970), pp. 102-109 (with reproduction of a minuet for string quartet).
  • Robert Münster , Hans Schmid (Hrsg.): Bavarian music history. (Music in Bavaria, Volume 1). Schneider, Tutzing 1972, ISBN 3-7952-0118-7 , pp. 203, 259, 391.
  • Wolfgang Rappel: Holler, Georg Augustin. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 383 ( digitized version ).
  • Robert Münster: (Georg) Augustin Holler, in The New Grove (2002), Volume 11, 636.
  • Robert Münster: Georg Augustin Holler, in: Music in Past and Present 2 (2003), Volume 9,
  • Sp. 222f.
  • Robert Münster: Serenade “Avertissement” and Parthia with the inclusion of the polonaise in the Munich town music of the late 18th century, in: Society-bound instrumental entertainment music of the 18th century. Report on the international conference in Eichstätt, 13.10. - 15.10.1983. Tutzing 1992, pp. 139-152. [Holler's biography, investigation and list of his relevant instrumental compositions].
  • RL Kauper: The Sacred Works of Augustin Holler (1744-1814). Little Known Aspects of Religious Music in Eighteenth Century Munich. (Diss. U. of Southern California, 1979 [with incomplete list of Holler's sacred compositions]).
  • Anton JJ von Schönhueb: History of the royal Bavarian Cadetten-Corps: written from original sources for the 100th anniversary celebration. Munich 1856. “Personeller Theil”, pp. 19, 26, 194 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • Thomas Grass, Dietrich Demus: The basset horn : its development and its music. 1st edition. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2002, ISBN 3-8311-4411-7 , pp. 8, 81, 87, 221, 226, 239.
  • Ludwig Denecke, Thilo Brandis: Directory of the written bequests in German archives and libraries. Volume 0, Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1981, p. 161.
  • Fontes artis musicae. Journal of the International Association of Music Libraries. Volume 28, Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1981, p. 1.
  • Searching for traces of the composer Georg Augustin Holler on onetz.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holler, Georg Augustin in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)Template: BMLO / maintenance / use of parameter 2
  2. ↑ Holler, Aegidius in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)Template: BMLO / maintenance / use of parameter 2
  3. ^ Andrew Kearns (Ed.): Six Orchestral Serenades from South Germany and Austria. Part I: Munich. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era, Volume 69). Verlag AR, Middleton, WI 2003, ISBN 0-89579-532-9 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ Holler, Georg Augustin. Serenata in C major. on the website of RISM - Répertoire International des Sources Musicales
  5. ↑ His electoral examination of the Pfalzbaiern ... court and state calendar: for the year ...; 1797; (P. 121: under “Teachers and teachers”) Signature: Bavar. 1261a-1797; Permalink: http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10374574-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Holler, Georg Augustin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holler, Augustin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and town music master in Munich
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Sperlhammer , Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1814
Place of death Munich