Josef Kreitmaier

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Josef Kreitmaier (born November 20, 1874 in Siegenburg , Lower Bavaria , † January 15, 1946 in Holzhausen , Augsburg district ) was a German Jesuit , art historian and church composer .

Life

The father Ignaz Kreitmaier was a decoration and church painter with a long Siegenburg family tradition. The mother Anna geb. Kernle came from Tegernbach near Augsburg. Josef received violin lessons at the age of nine .

From 1886 he attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , from 1888 the episcopal boys' seminar at Metten Monastery , where he created his first compositions in the senior class. In 1895 he entered the Regensburg seminary , where Karl Adam became his friend and Michael Haller his musical teacher. In 1897 he went to the Jesuit novitiate in Tisis , Vorarlberg, and in 1899 to study rhetoric at the Exaeten monastery ( Leudal , Netherlands). This was followed by studying philosophy and theology at the Ignatius College in Valkenburg , interrupted by practical work at the Aloisius College in Sittard 1902–1904. In 1907 he was ordained a priest , which was followed by ascetic training in Wijnandsrade .

In 1909 Kreitmaier became editor of the ND magazine Leuchtturm , initially in Luxembourg , and from 1910–1911 in Cologne . He was then sent to Munich to study art and music history , where Heinrich Wölfflin , Adolf Sandberger , Theodor Kroyer and Eugen Schmitz were his teachers, and then took over the art and music editing of the magazine Voices from Maria Laach  - from 1914 Voices of Time . He was its editor-in-chief from 1927 to 1936, where he earned high respect in artistic circles. For several decades he was a member of the jury of the German Society for Christian Art .

In 1938 Kreitmaier was a member of his religious order in the General Congregation of the Jesuits in Rome. From 1941 to 1945 he was the head of the community of authors of the voices of the time , which were banned in those years. Alfred Delp was one of the editors .

Works (selection)

Monographs and Articles

Title page of the monograph on Peter Lippert
  • Beuroner Kunst , 1914, 5th edition 1923
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , 1919
  • Eduard von Steinle , 1917, 2nd edition 1932
  • The Christmas crib , 1919, 2nd edition 1931
  • Leo Samberger , 1923
  • Michelangelo , 1924
  • Dominanten , essay collection, 1924
  • From Art and Artists , Collection of Articles, 1926
  • Peter Lippert , 1938, 2nd edition 1939
  • 18 articles in voices from Maria Laach or voices of the time
  • 10 articles in other magazines
  • 127 articles in the Lexicon for Theology and Church

Compositions

Title page of the songbook Gloria
  • Gloria , sacred songbook, texts mainly by Erich Przywara , melodies mainly by Josef Kreitmaier; 17 editions, around 500,000 copies; In it the song of Christ the King, O thou my Savior, high and dear, and the song A new Zion shines , which is also contained in diocesan parts of the praise of God , both by Przywara and Kreitmaier
  • St. Ignatius , Oratory, 1940
  • 4 Latin masses , 6 German singing masses , a total of 250 compositions
  • 4 song collections, u. a. Lauda Sion , 5th edition 1936

Autobiographical (unpublished)

  • Handwritten life abstract from the life of a mediocre , completed in 1939 (Archive of the Voices of Time , Munich)
  • handwritten directory of literary works and musical compositions, ibid.

literature

Web links

Commons : Josef Kreitmaier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pfeiffer with a quote from Max Pribilla
  2. ↑ Freiburg / Rottenburg-Stuttgart No. 918; Wuerzburg No. 796
personal data
SURNAME Kreitmaier, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreitmaier, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit, art historian and church composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Siegenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1946
Place of death Holzhausen