Norbert Hauner
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Norbert Hauner (born February 14, 1743 in Au am Inn , today a district of Gars am Inn , Upper Bavaria; † July 24, 1827 in Frauenchiemsee ) was an Augustinian canon , last dean of the Herrenchiemsee Monastery and a famous church composer, whose melodies are still widely used today are common.
Life
Norbert Hauner was born in 1743 as the son of a landlord in the Stampfl mountain inn near Au am Inn monastery . The restaurant still exists as a new building and today a memorial cross marks the birthplace of the composer at the location near the original building.
He joined the Herrenchiemsee Abbey as an Augustinian canon, where he took his religious vows in 1764; In 1768 he was ordained a priest in Salzburg . Norbert Hauner worked as a priest and church musician on the Herreninsel . He was choir regent and leader of the seminary, from 1782 pastor at the monastery church, where he also had to pastorate foreign parishes such as Gollenshausen and Prien . In 1797 Hauner was promoted to dean , i.e. head of the religious order, and in 1803 had to experience the secularization and dissolution of the Herrenchiemsee monastery .
Then he moved to the neighboring island of Frauenchiemsee . Here Norbert Hauner officiated until his death as spiritual and confessor of the Benedictine nuns of Frauenwörth there , as well as an expositus (assistant pastor) for the local village community, although he was not entirely satisfied with the dependence on the Breitbrunn parish and because of his low income. In 1818 he celebrated his golden anniversary there.
The book: Contributions to the history, topography and statistics of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising by Martin Deutinger , Munich 1850, notes on pages 437 and 438:
“Norbert Hauner, former dean of the Herren-Chiemsee monastery, was temporarily appointed as the confessor of Frauen-Chiemsee, but the parish of Frauen-Chiemsee was dissolved on September 9, 1809 and the island was declared a branch of the Breitbrunn parish. No salary was given to confessor Hauner; At first he went to the heirs of the deceased pastor and later to the nuns. He was also ailing and saw the position of the Frauen-Chiemsee island in the parish of Breitbrunn as only a source of annoyance for himself, because of which he repeatedly asked for his release . Herr Norbert Hauner held his secundiz at Frauen-Chiemsee in 1818, since the church at Herren-Chiemsee, where he had made his first holy sacrifice to God, had long been turned into a brewery. At the same time, the Lay Sister Magdalena Riepertinger renewed her religious profession. Not only the inhabitants of the island, but also all the neighbors took the most heartfelt share. "
Hauner died in Frauenchiemsee and was buried in the cemetery there. In 2007, on the 180th anniversary of his death, a plaque was dedicated to him there. The priest's grave no longer exists.
Working as a composer
Norbert Hauner was very musical and worked as a composer both in Herrenchiemsee and on Fraueninsel. Already during his lifetime he achieved a certain fame, because around 1775 the poet Franz Seraph von Kohlbrenner had him set various of his German hymns to music, which were published in the so-called Landshut hymn book in 1777 . There are around 50 short song compositions by Hauner. These poems and melodies are among the most beautiful sacred songs that German culture has produced. Many of the Hauner melodies became popular items that still have a permanent place in the hymn repertoire today. In most of the diocesan regional parts of the uniform hymn book Gotteslob there are currently still numerous songs by Norbert Hauner from Kohlbrenner's Landshut hymnal . The best-known of these is probably the Advent song Tauet, Himmel, den Rigechten , which among Catholics in Germany is literally a synonym for Advent. Pope Pius VI During his visit to Munich in 1782, he expressly praised the songs of the Landshut hymn book ; he recommended their widespread use.
In later editions of the Kohlbrenner hymn book, the Salzburg composer Michael Haydn revised the Hauner melodies or changed some of them slightly and then appeared in the printed work as the creator of the music. Most of the Kohlbrenner poems that mention Michael Haydn as composer are, however, originally clay creations by Norbert Hauner. He is characterized as very reserved and modest, which certainly contributed significantly to the fact that he was more and more forgotten or that his work was anonymously or under a different name.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the German hymns of Kohlbrenner and Hauner were often denigrated as non-Catholic and enlightening. After the liturgical reform of 1968, the opposite happened and they were viewed as outdated, romantic and sweet relics of a bygone ecclesiastical era. Nevertheless, their popular popularity has remained unbroken across all time fashions, as poetry and melody form a unique symbiosis here and are ultimately rooted in the unaffected popular feeling. In the past they had the advantage of supplementing the exclusively Latin chorale with intimate German songs. Today Kohlbrenner's texts and Hauner's melodies captivate with their soothing inwardness and deep sacredness, which one would otherwise often look for in the liturgy in vain. The church musician Martin Kebinger from Gars judged Norbert Hauner in 2007 that he was “one of the most important hymn composers in the German language, whose work cannot be rated highly enough for the development of German church song”. In addition, “a lot is still to be excavated” from the compositional work; a large part of Hauner's compositions is more or less unseen in the archive of the Frauenchiemsee monastery.
In addition to the German creations such as Tauet, Himmel, den Rigechten , The grave is empty, the hero awakens , See father of the highest throne , Here lies before Your Majesty etc. Norbert Hauner also composed other sacred works. These include a Benedictus litany, as well as several Latin masses, such as the Missa in C, which was composed on Herrenchiemsee and is in the musical tradition of Michael Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . It was recently recorded on CD.
literature
- Robert Munster: “Thauet, Heaven the Righteous…” In: Singer and Musicians Newspaper 8, 1965, no. 6, pp. 111–117.
- Robert Münster: Herrenchiemsee and the music. In: Walter Brugger (ed.): Herrenchiemsee monastery - Canon monastery - royal castle. Regensburg 2011, pp. 353, 276.
- Thematic catalog of the music manuscripts of the Benedictine Abbey Frauenwörth and the parish churches Wasserburg am Inn and Bad Tölz. Munich 1975.
- The holy chant for worship in the Roman Catholic Church. Landshut 1777 (reprint: Landshut 2003, ISBN 3-927612-20-0 ; urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11161747-7 ).
- Michael Buchberger : “One and a half millennia of church cultural work in Bavaria” . Alois Girnth Verlag, 1950, p. 472.
- Bavarian Benedictine Academy : Studies and Communications on the History of the Benedictine Order , Volume 97. Pustet, Regensburg 1986, p. 271.
- Friedrich Blume: Music in the past and present . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1979, p. 607.
- Josef Focht: Norbert Hauner. In: Music in the past and present. 2. rework. Output. Volume 8 (2007), Col. 871f.
Web links
- Works by and about Norbert Hauner in the German Digital Library
- Norbert Hauner in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Memorial page on the 180th anniversary of the death of Norbert Hauner
- Inscription on the memorial cross that stands on the place where he was born
- Memorial cross on the place of Hauner's birthplace
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page to Gasthaus Stampfl and the memorial cross there for Norbert Hauner ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Karl Eder: "The holy song" - Landshut hymn book from 1777 ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, press release, accessed on December 14, 2014
- ↑ “Landshuter Gesangbuch” from 1777 reissued ( memento of the original from December 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, press release of January 12, 2004, accessed on December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Report on the celebration of the 180th anniversary of Norbert Hauner's death on Frauenchiemsee
- ↑ Report on the celebration of the 180th anniversary of Norbert Hauner's death in Au am Inn
- ↑ Missa in C by Norbert Hauner ( Memento from October 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hauner, Norbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and dean of the monastery |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1743 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gars on the Inn |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1827 |
| Place of death | Frauenchiemsee |