Max Keller (composer)

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Max Keller sits between Constanze Mozart (left) and his wife Josefa ( daguerreotype from 1840)

Max Keller (born October 7, 1770 in Trostberg , Upper Bavaria, † December 16, 1855 in Altötting ) was a German composer and organist .

Life

From around 1780 Keller was a choirboy in the Seeon Benedictine monastery , where he also received his scientific and musical training. There he became organist in 1788, at the same time he was a student of Michael Haydn in Salzburg . In 1799 he went to Burghausen as organist and in 1801 as electoral chapel organist to Altötting, where he stayed until his retirement in 1851.

Works

As a church composer he created masses (especially German), litanies , Advent songs and small organ pieces. He mainly created works for churches with limited circumstances: masses for one or two voices with organ and optional horns.

  • Six German masses for a voice and organ, (second voice and 2 horns ad lib.) (Approx. 1810, Salzburg, Duyle)
No. 1 “We'll find, good God, here” in C major
No. 2 "We throw ourselves down" in F major
No. 3 “We kneel here in your temple” in F major
No. 4 “Look down on God from heaven” in B flat major
No. 5 “Lord, the members of your Church” in F major
No. 6 “O best of all fathers” in C major
  • Two German masses for one or two voices and organ, 2 Hr ad lib. (Salzburg, Duyle)
No. 7 "Let Us Jesus" in G major
No. 8 "Be steadfast, O God" in D major
  • Six German masses for a voice and organ, with a second and third voice, 2 violins, 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and bass ad lib. in C, F, G, Eb, A and C (Munich, Falter and Passau, Pustet)
  • Three Latin masses for three-part country choirs and organ (Munich, Falter)
  • Three Latin masses for country choirs unanimous and organ (with other voices and instruments ad lib.) (Munich, Falter), No. 1 in G / D, No. 2 in D / F and No. 3 in F / B
  • Two German petition masses, unanimous and organ (Munich, Falter)
  • German Mass in C major for the memorial days of the consecration, unanimous and organ (orchestra ad lib.) (1815 - Munich, Falter)
  • Solemne Mass in C major for four-part choir, orchestra and organ (Böhm)
  • Missa quadragesimalis per Feria 5ta in Coena Domini, E flat major op.14, four-part choir, bass and organ (Seeon August 10, 1798, dedicated to Abbot Lambert Neisser)
  • Seven Lytaniae Lauretanae op.39, SATB, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, 2 violins, viola and organ (1805 Augsburg, Lotter)
  • Popule meus (F major), SATB and organ (Seeon February 8, 1798, KBM 2 FW115)
  • Stella coeli op.4.2 (G major), SATB and organ (Seeon May 8, 1797, KBM 2 FW118)
  • Stella coeli op.4,3 (A major), SATB and organ (Seeon May 10, 1797, KBM 2 FW120)
  • Stella coeli op.21,2 (G major), SATB, 2 violins and organ (Seeon February 1798, KBM 2 FW119)
  • Stella coeli op.21,3 (C major), SATB, 2 violins and organ (Seeon February 18, 1798, KBM 2 FW116)
  • Stella coeli op.21.5 (E flat major), SATB, 2 violins and organ (Seeon May 26, 1795, KBM 2 FW117)
  • Twelve organ pieces for worship use
  • Sounds of Devotion during Holy Mass op.165

literature

  • Robert Eitner: Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of musicians and music scholars. Volume 5. 1901.
  • August Scharnagel: Max Keller. In: Friedrich Blume: Music in the past and present. Volume 7. 1958.

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personal data
SURNAME Keller, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keller, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and organist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Trostberg , Upper Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1855
Place of death Altötting