Ignaz von Spaur

Tomb of Leopold and Ignaz von Spaur in Brixen Cathedral

Ignaz Franz Stanislaus Reichsgraf von Spaur (born May 8, 1729 in Innsbruck , † March 2, 1779 in Brixen ) was Prince-Bishop of Brixen .

The von Spaur family is a noble family that had been raised to the rank of imperial count. Ignaz was the son of Count Johann Franz Wilhelm von Spaur and Anna Maximiliane, born Countess von Trapp . Spaur was ordained a priest in 1756 and was canon in Salzburg until 1776 , and from 1763 also canon in Bressanone. In 1776 he became coadjutor of Brixen with assured successor to the bishopric and auxiliary bishop of Chrysopolis in Arabia . In 1778 he succeeded his uncle Leopold von Spaur as Prince-Bishop of Brixen, but died the following year. His successor in this office was his brother Joseph von Spaur .

Spaur was a friend and patron of the Mozart family. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had composed a mass for Spaur's episcopal ordination by Prince Archbishop Hieronymus von Colloredo on November 17, 1776 in Salzburg Cathedral . Leopold Mozart mentioned this mass in a letter to Wolfgang Amadus in 1778 and called it "Spaur Mass". According to recent music-historical research, this mass is the mass in C major KV 257 . Previously, for decades, following an unproven assumption by Alfred Einstein in the 3rd edition of the Köchel catalog, the Missa brevis in C major KV 258 was regarded as the "Spaur Mass".

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Spaur, Ignaz Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 36th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1878, p. 96 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Entry on Ignaz von Spaur on catholic-hierarchy.org
Ignaz Joseph von Spaur Bishop of Brixen geneall.net

Individual evidence

^ The letters of WA Mozart and his family. Volume 4. Munich / Leipzig 1914, pp. 25-35; Letter from Leopold Mozart to his wife and son, Salzburg, May 28, 1778 at Zeno.org .
↑ Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider: "Riddle of international Mozart research solved" (June 2007) (PDF; 116 kB)

predecessor	Office	successor
Leopold von Spaur	Prince-Bishop of Brixen 1778–1779	Joseph von Spaur

personal data
SURNAME	Spaur, Ignaz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Spaur, Ignaz Franz Stanislaus Reichsgraf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Brixen
DATE OF BIRTH	May 8, 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH	innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH	March 2, 1779
Place of death	Brixen

[1] The letters of WA Mozart and his family. Volume 4. Munich / Leipzig 1914, pp. 25-35; Letter from Leopold Mozart to his wife and son, Salzburg, May 28, 1778 at Zeno.org .

[2] Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider: "Riddle of international Mozart research solved" (June 2007) (PDF; 116 kB)