Ignaz von Spaur
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 |
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Leopold von Spaur |
Prince-Bishop of Brixen 1778–1779 |
Joseph von Spaur |
personal data | |
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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 |