Joseph Auer

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Joseph Auer (born February 4, 1855 in Staudach , † March 1, 1911 in Osterwaal ) was a German Catholic priest and composer.

Life

Joseph Auer received his first musical training from his father, who worked as a teacher and church musician in Straßkirchen near Straubing . The musically gifted pupil at the Benedictine high school in Metten was particularly encouraged and shaped by P. Rupert Mittermüller and P. Utto Kornmüller , an important exponent of Cäcilianism . After graduating from high school, Joseph Auer studied philosophy and theology at the Lyceum in Regensburg. Due to the recommendation of his teachers in Metten, the Regensburg cathedral music director Franz Xaver Haberl became aware of him, so that he was given the post of prefect at the Regensburg cathedral sparrows for two years. He then entered the Regensburg seminary . Here he took over the management of the seminar choir and went public with his first own compositions.

After being ordained a priest in 1879, the first assignments in parish pastoral care in Marklkofen , Ottering and Reissing followed . After an illness he took over the position of prefect at the royal study seminar in Amberg in 1884 . At the same time he taught religion and calligraphy at the grammar school . In addition to numerous compositions, some of which also appeared in print, various works on music history were also created during this time.

Because of his poor health, Joseph Auer had to give up his position in Amberg in 1894 and retired to Elsendorf in the Hallertau as a commorant . In 1907 he decided to take over the small parish of Osterwaal, where he worked until his death. In this last phase of his life, too, Joseph Auer continued to work tirelessly as a composer and music historian.

Compositions (selection)

  • From the time at the Regensburg seminary: Te Deum. Requiem , Lauretanian Litany , Anima Christi .
  • In Amberg: Festive Mass In honorem Sancti Josephi. Festive Mass In honorem Sancti Francisci Salesii , Mass In Honor of Our Lady of Lourdes , Te Deum , 7 motets , Stabat Mater , 12 Pange Lingua , 5 Corpus Christi hymns , Sacred Heart Songs , Mother of God Lilies , Requiem , 2 Communion songs , Lauretanian litany , Ave Maria , Cantata Sanctus Benedictus , Cantata Saint Michael , eight spring songs
  • In Elsendorf and Osterwaal: Offertories of the feasts of the bitter suffering of Christ and the seven sorrows of Mary, litany of the Holy Name of Jesus and the Sacred Heart of Jesus , six German funerary songs , Miserere , ten Latin sermon songs , ten Adjuva nos , Antiphonae Mariae
  • Contributions to the history of music in the monthly magazines for music history and the church music yearbook

Editions

  • Hans Leo Haßler , Masses f. 4-8 St. (= Monuments of German Sound Art I, 7, 1902)
  • Hans Leo Hassler, Sacri concentus f. 4-12 St. (= Monuments of German Sound Art I, 24 and 25, 1906)

literature

  • Rudolf Katzl: Joseph Auer, composer and music researcher. In: Old and Young Metten. Vol. 67, issue 2. 2000/2001, pp. 224-229.

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personal data
SURNAME Auer, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic priest and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Storage roof
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1911
Place of death Osterwaal