Joseph Anton Laucher

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Joseph Anton Laucher (born January 17, 1737 in Ebershausen ; died October 11, 1813 in Dillingen an der Donau ) was a German composer , music teacher and music publisher .

Live and act

Joseph Anton Laucher was born as the tenth and penultimate child of the school teacher Jacobus Laucher and his wife Anna Laucher. It is believed that he attended the Jesuit high school in Mindelheim . He began his teaching career in Weissenhorn in 1766 . From 1768 he taught in Wullenstetten (today Senden ) and from 1772 in Burgau . From 1774 he worked as a teacher and music director at the collegiate monastery of St. Peter in the prince-bishop's residence town of Dillingen, as well as a church musician and singing teacher, as a music publisher and music dealer.

He also taught his daughter Antonia Laucher and her younger sister Caecilia Katharina Eleonora (1787–1861), both of whom later became known as court opera singers in Vienna . His granddaughter Marie Weiler was also a singer and went down in theater and music history as such and as Johann Nestroy's partner .

Due to his work in music education, Laucher was called the father of Swabian teacher training . The basics of his music and singing pedagogy are presented in his Sing-Fundamentals .

Laucher's compositions were created in the context of his church music and educational activities. There are catchy hymns for two female voices that are also suitable for performing with a children's choir.

Honor

The Josef-Anton-Laucher-Volksschule was named after him. Due to the merger with the Angelina-Egger-Volksschule in the elementary school Dillingen a. D. opened .

Works

Reported

  • The usual Vespers hymn for solos, choir, Str., 2 Hr., Ob. and organ, terms and conditions. 1786, Staiger. 19 compositions, including one each
  • Veni sancte spiritus
  • Te Deum
  • Das kleine Dilingische Gesangbüchgen , Dillingen 1787 (Dillinger Normalschulliederbuch, with J. J. A. Schneller)
  • Sacrificium mortuorum , three requiem in memory of Joseph II., Leopold II. And the wife of Franz II. (I.) Elisabeth Wilhelmine for solos, choir, street, 2 Hr., 2 Klar. and organ op. 2, Dst. 1792, Boßler
  • Sing foundation. Short and clear lessons in the art of singing , City and Hochstift Museum Dillingen
  • Hymns, Offertories, Miserere, Duetto de la Santissima Vergine Maria , etc. a. in D-DO, D-DBk, D-TEGha

Assumed lost

  • Farewell ode
  • Formula votiva
  • Improperia
  • Responsories
  • Melodies for The victorious innocence in a play
  • Melodies to texts from Krämer's school songs
  • Melodies to texts from the Mildheimische songbook

literature

  • Hans-Bruno Ernst: Joseph Anton Laucher (1737-1813) . In: Günther G., Nägele R. (Ed.) Music in Baden-Württemberg. JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-476-03750-3_7 (excerpt).
  • Hans-Bruno Ernst: "... yes, my descendants themselves will bless Your Grace as the greatest benefactor beyond the grave." New research results on the life, work and family of the Dillingen choir regent Joseph Anton Laucher . In: Yearbook of the historical association Dillingen an der Donau . 101st year 2000. Dillingen: Verlag des Verein, 2000, pp. 178-200. Presentation at the University Library Augsburg with download option as PDF .
  • Hans-Bruno Ernst: Article Laucher, Josephus Antonius, in: MGG Second, revised edition. Person part 10, Kassel et al .: Bärenreiter 2003. Sp. 1325 f.
  • Adolf Layer: Joseph Anton Laucher and his family , in: Lebensbilder aus dem Bayerischen Schwaben 8 , Anton H. Konrad Verlag: Munich 1961, 301–327.
  • Joseph Anton Laucher at Deutsche Biographie . Retrieved October 25, 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Bruno Ernst: Joseph Anton Laucher (1737-1813) . In: Günther G., Nägele R. (Ed.) Music in Baden-Württemberg. JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-476-03750-3_7 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Hans-Bruno Ernst: Article Laucher, Josephus Antonius, in: MGG Online, ed. by Laurenz Lütteken, Kassel, Stuttgart, New York: 2016ff., online preview published on November 19, 2015
  3. ^ Adolf Layer: Joseph Anton Laucher and his family , in: Lebensbilder aus dem Bayerischen Schwaben 8 , Anton H. Konrad Verlag: Munich 1961, 301–327
  4. ↑ Hans-Bruno Ernst: On the newly discovered "Sing-Fundament" of the Dillingen church musician Joseph Anton Laucher. 1988 Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese, 1988, XXXII 326-357
  5. ↑ Dillingen primary school - history. Retrieved October 27, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g Hans-Bruno Ernst: Joseph Anton Laucher (1737–1813) music director and teacher . In Georg Günther u. Reiner Nägele (Ed.): Music in Baden-Württemberg . Yearbook 1998, Volume 5, Metzler, Stuttgart a. Weimar 1997, p. 140.
personal data
SURNAME Laucher, Joseph Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, music teacher and music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebershausen
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1813
Place of death Dillingen on the Danube