Peter Griesbacher

Peter Griesbacher (born March 25, 1864 in Egglham ; † January 28, 1933 in Regensburg ) was a German composer , organist and bell expert .

Life

Griesbacher studied theology in Passau and was ordained a priest in 1886. From 1894 to 1895 he was music prefect at the St. Emmeram study seminar in Regensburg . His good reputation as a composer of church music made him a lecturer at the church music school in Regensburg in 1911 , where he taught counterpoint , form theory and style . Around the same time he was appointed vicar and then canon at the collegiate monastery St. Johann in Regensburg . In 1930 the collegiate chapter elected him dean, and Carl Thiel succeededCharles Weinberger , who had been temporarily represented by Peter Griesbacher, was appointed director of the church music school. Griesbacher died of gastrointestinal cancer in January 1933.

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Griesbacher composed mainly Catholic church music. Starting from the a cappella ideal of Cäcilianism , he came to an "internalized monumental style" with the involvement of the orchestra via organ-accompanied works, whereby the instrumentation mostly did not come from him. He also tried to combine the strict Cecilian style with late romantic harmony, which is why his late works in particular are characterized by a rather complex tonal language, but were strongly rejected by the followers of Cecilianism. With Griesbacher, Catholic church music found connection to contemporary developments at the transition from the 19th to the 20th century. He created around 250 works, including 49 trade fairs.

• Missa Iam sol recedit op.1
• Missa Mater admirabilis op. 86
• Missa in honorem Sancti Gregorii (II vocum inaequalium com. Organo) op.90
• Missa Stella maris op.141
• Missa Americana op.235

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  GRIESBACHER, Peter. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 351.
• Dieter Lohr : The rebellion in a water glass. Novel . Brendow publishing house. Moers 2006 (C.-S..Lewis-Prize 2006)
• A. Scharnagl:  Griesbacher, Peter. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First Edition, Volume 5 (Societies - Hayne). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1956, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 910-911
• Max Tremmel: Peter Griesbacher . Passau 1935
• Ernst Waeltner:  Griesbacher, Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 63 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Weinmann: History of Church Music . 1913

Web links

• Works by and about Peter Griesbacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sheet music in the public domain by Peter Griesbacher in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
• Peter Griesbacher in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)