Karl Vigl

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Karl Vigl (born March 7, 1898 in Castelrotto ; † March 3, 1965 in Bozen ) was a South Tyrolean Kapellmeister , composer , choirmaster , organist and church musician .

Life

Vigl was born the son of a primary school teacher in Castelrotto (then Austria-Hungary ). Like his father, he too took up the teaching profession after attending the German teacher training institute in Bolzano . During his studies he took musical lessons from the Benedictine priest monk Columban Müller (Pius August Benedikt; 1870-1946).

He initially taught from 1912 to 1916 in his hometown, where he also worked as an organist. He then taught in Villanders , after a forced transfer at the time of the ruling fascism in Umbria , then from 1928 to 1932 as a single teacher in Bolzano and from 1932 to 1938 in the province of Perugia and in Lombardy . During this time he also led the church choir in Rentsch . He then taught at various schools in localities around the Renon . In May 1939 his son Karl Hermann was born in Lengmoos . During his teaching activity in Kaltern from 1947 , he was active there as choir regent .

In 1950 Vigl went to Bolzano again, where he was director of an elementary school until 1962. During this time he played as an organist in various churches, was cantor at the Bolzano provost church Maria Himmelfahrt and as choirmaster led the men's choirs in Bozen and Gries . As a retiree, he was Kapellmeister of the Salurn brass band from 1962 to 1965 .

Vigl wrote several compositions for wind orchestra , around 50 ballad-like songs for voice and piano, several polyphonic Latin proprio movements and ordinarium compositions , sacramental songs , sermon chants, Marian chants and two Latin requies for three male voices and organ. The Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon assigns its church music works to the tradition of Cäcilianism .

literature

  • Gottfried Veit : Karl Vigl - a South Tyrolean composer in: Brass music yesterday, today and tomorrow , November 2006, p. 476
  • Karl H. Vigl: Karl Vigl 1898–1965 - wind music composer based on a classical formal model , Musica Britannica 1998–1, pp. 255–258

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notes in the book of professions by P. Adelhelm Rast and P. Dominikus Bucher , Stiftsarchiv der Muri-Gries Abbey , Sarnen.
  2. ↑ a b c Vigl, Family , Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon.
  3. ↑ a b Composers: Vigl, Karl 1898-1965 , Kliment.
personal data
SURNAME Vigl, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Tyrolean organist, conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Kastelruth , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1965
Place of death Bolzano , Italy