Maurus Haberhauer

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Maurus Haberhauer OSB (born March 13, 1746 in Zwittau as Joseph Haberhauer; † February 18, 1799 in Raigern ) was a Moravian theologian, composer and music teacher.

Life

Maurus (Joseph) Haberhauer came from a family of clothiers from Zwittau . At the beginning of the 18th century, his father Franz and his uncle Philipp were listed in the registers of the Brotherhood of the Zwittau Cloth Miners . His grandfather Martin moved from the village of Vierzighuben to the city in 1704 . The Haberhauer family had been running a mill in Vierzighuben since the 16th century. Maurus Haberhauer lived as a Benedictine in the Moravian monastery Raigern from the age of 17. Due to a severe gout disease, he could not leave his room in the last 13 years of his life.

education

The pupil Joseph Haberhauer received his first musical training through the cantors of the St. Mary's Birth Church in Zwittau. At the age of eleven, he moved to the Jesuit grammar school in Brno in 1759 and at the same time entered the local music seminar. He was a soprano and played various string instruments.

Order activities

Raigern Monastery
The Ensemble Musica Figuralis, Olomouc in the Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Gerlingen

In autumn 1763 he entered the Benedictine order of the Raigern Abbey , which at that time was an important Moravian music center. He took the religious name Meinradus, which he changed on the occasion of the taking of his vows to Maurus. In 1770 he completed his theology studies with ordination. The collegiate music inventory begun by him in 1771 shows that he took over the office of choir rain at the abbey when he was ordained a priest. During these years, Wenzel Müller was his music student, who later became popular in Vienna as a musical composer. In 1779 Haberhauer was appointed subprior, with which he also gave up his work as choirmaster. From 1779 to 1782 he was lecturer of canon law and after being recalled from the subprior position in 1783 he taught the theology students of the monastery. He wrote several Latin treatises on theology , philosophy , law and natural sciences .

Performances and own work

Encouraged by the Raigern organist and composer Matthäus Furbe and then Matthäus Benedikt Rutka, Haberhauer performed church music as well as works from the Viennese classic and from the Italian repertoire. His Raigern music inventory includes masses and symphonies by Michael and Joseph Haydn , Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf , Niccolo Jommelli , Tommaso Traetta , Antonio Maria Mazzoni , Baldassare Galuppi , Antonio Sacchini and Leonardo Leo .

Maurus Haberhauer's own compositional oeuvre comprises 90 works, beginning with the year 1766. In addition to 46 masses , he composed 13 Vespers , eight Lauretanian litanies and six psalms . Motets , funeral and Advent mettas, but also three secular compositions, including a concerto for the cor anglais , are almost completely preserved. The style principles of the late baroque can still be recognized in his early works ; he then gradually changed his work towards classicism . His compositions can be found in the collection of the Raigern Abbey, the Brno and Prague Benedictines, and in the parishes of Brno and Znojmo .

Haberhauer's works were mainly performed in Moravia until the first half of the 19th century. On July 27, 2014 Haberhauer's Great Mass in C was performed in the parish church of Mährisch Rothmühl (Radiměř), Czech Republic by the Ensemble Musica Figuralis, Olomouc ( Olomouc ). On the initiative of Oswald Haberhauer and Dr. Annemarie Klemsche-Haberhauer led the ensemble Musica figuralis under the direction of Jan Gottwald on 11 December 2016 in the Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul to Gerlingen the Mass in C and Motetto de Sanctissimo Sacramento C before large audiences on.

literature

  • Pavel Žurek. Jan Furbe and Matouš Benedikt Rutka - moravští varhaníci 18. století a jejich kompoziční činnost: Magisterská diplomová práce. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, Filozofická fakulta, Ústav hudební vědy, (partial translation available).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Lick. On the history of the city of Zwittau and its surroundings, self-published, Zwittau 1910
  2. ^ Václav Kapsa: The encyclopedia article about the composer Maurus Haberhauer with literature and catalog raisonné. In: Music in the past and present. Bärenreiter, Kassel, 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1118-7
personal data
SURNAME Haberhauer, Maurus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haberhauer, Joseph (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moravian theologian, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwittau
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1799
Place of death Raigern