Magnus Dagn

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Magnus Dagn OSB (born June 21, 1747 in Söll as Georg Dagn ; † September 20, 1792 ) was an Austrian clergyman, organist , music teacher and composer .

Life

Dagn received musical training in Innsbruck. In 1764 he entered the Benedictine Abbey of St. Georgenberg-Fiecht , and in 1771 he was ordained a priest. In the monastery he was a famous organist, respected music teacher and head of the monastery school. Among his students were Martin Goller and Joseph Alois Holzmann . Dagn also composed church music and piano pieces. From 1787 to 1790 he was the confessor of the Benedictine nuns in the Säben monastery . His brother Placidus Dagn was also a Benedictine and musician in Fiecht.

literature

  • Christian Fastl: Dagn, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
  • Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider: Music manuscripts from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries in Stams, Bressanone, Salzburg, and from "Vipiteno". In: Fontes Artis Musicae, Volume 59 (2012), pp. 14-24.
personal data
SURNAME Dagn, Magnus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dagn, Georg (baptismal name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Benedictine, organist, music teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1747
PLACE OF BIRTH Söll
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1792