Leopold M. Kantner

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Leopold Maximilian Kantner (born June 30, 1932 in Passau ; † July 24, 2004 in Villach ) was a German clergyman , musicologist , church musician and composer working in Austria .

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Kantner graduated from the humanistic grammar school in Passau (Abitur class 1951) and from 1952 studied musicology in Heidelberg with Thrasybulos Georgiades and in Vienna with Erich Schenk . He received his doctorate in 1958. He also trained as an organist in Salzburg (with Franz Sauer ) and took theology at the University of Vienna. In 1961 he was ordained a priest in Vienna.

Kantner then worked for many years as a priest in Lower Austria and Vienna and then as a religion professor in Vienna. After the liturgical reform he continued to hold on to the Tridentine Mass , which made normal priestly work impossible for him. Finally he qualified as a professor. From 1983 to 2004 he also worked as a church musician at St. Laurenz im Schottenfeld . He gave lectures on church music at the University of Vienna.

From 1969 Kantner intensified his musicological research, especially in Italy and Rome. In 1978 he completed his habilitation in Vienna. From 1981 to 1995 he was regional director of the RISM in Austria, from the end of 2003 until his death he was vice-president of the RISM-Austria association . His grave is in the Innstadtfriedhof in his hometown Passau.

His - few - compositions bear the pseudonym Massimiliano Cantinieri .

Fonts (selection)

  • Life and church compositions by Anton Diabelli (= dissertation), Vienna 1957.
  • "Aurea luce". Music to St. Peter in Rome 1790–1850 (= habilitation thesis), Vienna 1977.

Honors

  • Michael Jahn , Angela Pachovsky (ed.): Festschrift Leopold M. Kantner for his 70th birthday (= studies in musicology. 49). Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2002.
  • This: Figaro là, Figaro quà [Publications of rism-Austria A / 4] commemorative publication Leopold M. Kantner (1932-2004) . Verlag Der Apfel , Vienna 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Kantner, Leopold M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kantner, Leopold Maximilian; Cantinieri, Massimiliano (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian religious and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 2004
Place of death Villach