Johann Evangelist Habert

Johann Evangelist Habert (born October 18, 1833 in Oberplan ( South Bohemia ), † September 1, 1896 in Gmunden ( Upper Austria )) was a Catholic church musician and composer .

Habert was the son of a master baker. He attended the elementary school in Oberplan run by his grandfather and, from 1848, the normal school in Linz . This was connected to a teacher training college, which he graduated from.

In 1852 he was first a teacher in Naarn an der Donau , later in 1857 in Waizenkirchen . From 1860 he worked as a parish organist in Gmunden am Traunsee, and from 1878 he was also the rain choir here.

Habert became known through numerous church music works written by him.

Works

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• Motets
• Litanies
• Te Deum op. 37 with a small orchestra
• Songs and singing
• Piano works
• Organ works
• Chamber music
• Orchestral works
• Teaching works
  • Organ book for the Austrian ecclesiastical province op.33, 1881
  • Choir School, Op. 22, 1882
  • Contributions to the teaching of musical composition, 4 volumes, 1889 ff.
  • Practical Organ School op.16, 2 volumes, 1892
  • Small practical organ school, op.101, 1895
  • Theoretical-practical piano school op.70

A complete edition of his works, initially edited by himself and later by Alois Hartl, appeared in 8 series from 1894 onwards

In addition to his own works, he published:

• Johann Joseph Fux: Messen , in DTÖ I / 1, Vienna 1894
• Johann Joseph Fux: Motets in DTÖ II / 1, Vienna 1895
• Johann Stadlmayr: Hymns , in DTÖ III / 1, Vienna 1896

He also edited the magazine he founded for Catholic church music .

literature

• JN Moser: Johann Evangelist Habert, 1833–1896, an Upper Austrian composer and music theorist. Gmunden 1976.
• Johann Evangelist Habert: The Cäcilienverein. 1877.
• JGE Stehle: New Habertiana. 1878.
• Isidor Mayrhofer: About the conditions for a healthy reform of church music. 1894.
• Alois Hartl : Johann Evangelist Habert. Vienna 1900.
• Karl Weinmann: History of church music with special consideration of the church music restoration in the 19th century. 1913.
• Upper Austria - A home book. 1925, p. 590 ff.
• Otto origin: Catholic church music. 1931.
• Rudolf Quoika: Church music as a liturgical principle. Saaz 1935.
• Othmar Wessely : Johann Evangelist Habert. In: Heimatland 1. Krems / Donau 1956, p. 78 f.
• Hans Rudolf Zöbeley:  Habert, Johann Evangelist. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 399 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Gustav Fellerer (editor): History of Catholic Church Music - II. From the Tridentinum to the present. 1976.
• The music in the past and present . Vol. V, p. 1197 ff.
• Riemann: Vol. I, p. 710 f.
• Rudolf Walter: In a critical attitude towards Cecilianism - Letters from the Breslau Cathedral Kapellmeister Moritz Brosig to the spokesman for Austrian Cecilianism Johann Evangelist Habert. In: ASKG, 45.1987, pp. 187-204.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Habert, Johann Evangelist. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 419-420.
• Barbara Boisits: Habert, Johann Evangelist. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .