Josef Anton Saladin

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Josef Anton Saladin (born June 13, 1908 in Dornach , Canton Solothurn , † September 16, 1996 in Solothurn ) was a Swiss Roman Catholic priest, church musician and university teacher.

Life

He attended the St. Fidelis College in Stans , where Johann Baptist Hilber influenced him musically. After studying theology in Lucerne and Rome , he was ordained a priest in 1933 . After years of chaplaincy in Grenchen and Solothurn, he studied church music at the Pontifical Institute for Church Music in Rome and in Zurich , where he received his doctorate in 1945 with a thesis on music maintenance at the Lucerne St. Leodegar Foundation . At the same time he was a music teacher and organist in Zug , from 1946 choirmaster, catechist and organist at the Franciscan Church in Lucerne . At the church music school there he taught music history as a professor.

From 1957 to 1965 Saladin was pastor in Schaffhausen . In 1968 the Swiss Bishops' Conference appointed him Commissioner for Church Music. He was chairman of the commission for the Catholic standard hymnbook of German-speaking Switzerland, the forerunner of the current KGS .

From 1972 to 1984 he was General President of the General Cecilia Association for Germany . Pope Paul VI appointed him papal honorary prelate . In 1973 he received the Orlando di Lasso Medal .

Saladin composed several masses and Latin church chants. It was from him that the melody of the song A large city arises , which is contained in all German-language Catholic hymn books.

His grave is in the St. Nicklas cemetery in Solothurn.

literature

  • General President Dr. Josef Anton Saladin 65 years old. In: Musica sacra . Vol. 93 (1973), H 6, p. 386.
  • Franz A. Stein : The former General Praeses, Dr. J. Anton Saladin was 80. In: Musica sacra. Vol. 108 (1988), H. 5, p. 420 f.
  • Franz A. Stein: 30 years in the service of the ACV - 10 years President General - Joseph Anton Saladin is dead! In: Musica sacra. 116: 6, 407-410 (1996).
  • Josef Anton Saladin . In: Fabian Weber: The Cardinal Protectors, General Presidents and Presidents of the General Cecilia Association for Germany. 2., revised version. General Cecilia Association for Germany, Regensburg 2016, p. 42 f. ( Digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ source see literature; the DNB information is incorrect (as of October 4, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Saladin, Josef Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman, church musician, musicologist, composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornach SO
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1996
Place of death Solothurn