Georg Pasterwitz

Georg Pasterwi (t) z , worldly first name Robert Johannes Ivo (born March 7, 1730 in Bierhütte near Hohenau ; † January 26, 1803 in Kremsmünster ) was an Austrian Catholic clergyman and composer .

He is the namesake of the Georg-von-Pasterwitz Middle School in Hohenau.

Life

As the son of Johann Andreas Pasterwiz and Theresia geb. More from Sonnegg and Mohrenburg, Pasterwitz began his training in Passau and continued it in Niederaltaich and from 1745 in the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster . He then took theology in Salzburg, where he also studied law, mathematics and languages. He received composition lessons from Johann Ernst Eberlin, among others .

The Primiz took place on June 24, 1755, then he worked in various teaching posts in the monastery, but in particular 1767–1783 as a regens chori . After 1783 he worked as a pastor in Buchkirchen , until 1795 as Stiftshofmeister in Vienna , then as dean of the secondary schools and 1801-1803 as a conventual .

Although he has also published in other areas, he has emerged in particular as a composer of sacred and chamber music works as well as a whole series of singspiele for the Stiftstheater, partly on libretti by his brother and successor Beda Plank in Upper Austrian dialect.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Pasterwitz, Georg von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 21st part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, pp. 336–338 ( digitized version ).
• Altman Kellner : Music history of the Kremsmünster Abbey depicted according to the sources . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1956, pp. 436-531.
• Altman Kellner: Profession book of the Kremsmünster Monastery . Kremsmünster 1968, pp. 319–323.
• David Black: Pasterwitz and Michael Haydn . In: Early Music 2008 36 (1), ISSN  0306-1078 , p. 174.
• Ernst Schlader: Georg Pasterwiz (1730–1803), Leben Wirken Werk . Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften, Saarbrücken 2011, ISBN 978-3-8381-2836-8 .

Web links

Commons : Georg Pasterwitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Georg Pasterwitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Georg Pasterwitz  in the German Digital Library
• Georg Pasterwitz in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Rudolf Flotzinger : Pasterwiz, P. Georg OSB. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .