Constantine Mach

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Constantine Mach

Konstantin Mach , Episcopal Spiritual Counselor , (born March 4, 1915 in Brünnlitz ; † September 25, 1996 in Rohr ) was a Benedictine priest in the Braunau monastery in Rohr , who worked as a teacher and rector at the Johannes Nepomuk Gymnasium Rohr i.NB. and worked as a composer .

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Mach was born as the third of six brothers in Brünnlitz / Bohemia and was named Friedrich when he was baptized. When he entered the monastery in Braunau (Bohemia) in 1936 ( professed on September 14, 1937) he was given the religious name of Constantine.

Father Konstantin received his high school education at the state high school in Freudenthal . He then completed his studies in Catholic theology in Olomouc , Prague and Salzburg .

There was a lot of music in the Mach family. As a six-year-old boy, Friedrich began taking violin lessons , at the age of eleven he began to play the piano, at the age of twelve he sat at the organ , although his little feet could not yet reach the pedal keys, and at fourteen he was already composing his first mass for solos , Choir and large orchestra .

He received his first music theory lessons from his spiritual student in the boys' seminar, Karl Polzer. These musical apprenticeship years formed the basis for later music studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Franz Sauer in the concert organ subject. After the war and the subsequent expulsion from their Bohemian homeland, the Benedictine monastery of Braunau was able to build a new home in the canon monastery in Rohr / Niederbayern, which had been dissolved and disintegrated since 1803. Father Konstantin continued his musical studies at the State University of Music in Munich . Here, after three semesters, he passed the state examination for teaching at grammar schools in the subject of music . At the same time, his teachers were Joseph Haas in composition and then in Karl Höller's master class .

Over the years seventy-two works, some of them very extensive, were created and repeatedly recorded and broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk . The sheet music has not yet been published and has only been reproduced for performance purposes with wax matrices or blueprints. Transcripts are z. Currently made by a former student of the Johannes Nepomuk grammar school.

Since 1950 Konstantin Mach has been teaching at the Johannes-Nepomuk-Gymnasium Rohr i.NB. Music, religion, and math.

From 1955 to 1963 he was the rector of the boarding school in Rohr in Niederbayern , after which he headed the St. Nepomuk grammar school as senior director until 1980.

Among other things, he became known as a pastor of bikers and rockers with the nickname Father Conny ; also as organist and organizer of the “Musica Sacra” in Rohr. Throughout Europe he went on the choir tour with the Rohrer Boys' Choir every year.

Awards and honors

In 1957 he received the Sudeten German Culture Prize for Music .

The "Prize of the Bavarian People's Foundation" - as a special award for services to the cultural life of Bavaria - was awarded to him in 1992.

Discography

Assumption of Mary, Op. 50 (new version of op. 21); Oratorio for solos, choir, folk choir and orchestra

  • Christiane Baumann, Sigrid Kessler, Donald George, Rudolf Hillebrand, Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra
  • Orchestra Regensburg, conductor: Eberhard Kraus,
  • Co-production of Bayerischer Rundfunk and Calig-Verlag Munich

Concert music in Rohr by Konstantin Mach

  1. Concerto for Organ alone, Op. 25; Eberhard Kraus (organ)
  2. Wind Quintet in B flat minor, Op. 34; Karl Bobzien (flute), Kurt Kalmus (oboe), Gert Starke (clarinet), Karl Kolbinger (bassoon), Kurt Richter (horn)
  3. Concertino for piano a. String orchestra op. 37; Michael Krist (piano), Munich Chamber Orchestra, cond .: The composer
  4. Small dance suite for horn a. Orchestra op. 41; Johannes Ritzkowsky (horn), Munich Philharmonic, conducted by Werner Andreas Albert

Cantico di frate sole op. 26; Oratorio for tenor solo, choir, folk choir a. Orchestra;

  • Recording of a spiritual concert in the Benedictine abbey church in Rohr / Ndb. by Bayerischer Rundfunk on June 11, 1961 (itonmusik 1995: CDIGITAL 60220 MONO ADD)

plant

  • P. Paul Křížkovský and the church boy singing. Self-published - Občanská printing, Brno 1936

literature

  • Lexicon on German musical culture; 2. M - Z / Hader, Widmar, Langen Müller, 2000 (pp. 860–862)
  • Catalog of works by contemporary composers from eastern Germany; / Simbriger, Heinrich - main volume (1955); u. Supplementary volumes 1 to 6, (1961–1977)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Autobiographical description of persons in the AUDIO CD: Cantico di frate sole op. 26; P. Konstantin Mach OSB; Recording of a spiritual concert in the Benedictine abbey church in Rohr / Ndb. by Bayerischer Rundfunk on June 11, 1961 (itonmusik 1995: CDIGITAL 60220 MONO ADD)
  2. ↑ Annual reports from the St. Nepomuk High School (1958–1967)
  3. ↑ Der Rohrspatz , No. 1 (1963), bulletin of the Benedictine Abbey and the St. Nepomuk Realgymnasium, online (PDF) on the website of the Johann-Nepomuk-Gymnasium, viewed on January 2, 2016
  4. ^ Abbey of the Benedictines in Rohr / Ndb. (Ed.): A quarter of a century of music in pipe: Konstantin Mach OSB. A documentary, 1976
  5. ↑ Lexicon on German musical culture; 2. M - Z / Hader, Widmar, Langen Müller, 2000 (pp. 860–862)
personal data
SURNAME Go on, Constantine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mach, Friedrich (baptismal name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictine priest
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Brunnlitz
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1996
Place of death pipe