Rochus Franz Ignaz Egedacher

Rochus Franz Ignaz Egedacher (born January 29, 1749 in Salzburg ; † January 22, 1824 there ) was the son of the organ builder Rochus Egedacher and clergyman vicar.

Life

Rochus Franz Ignaz Egedacher was baptized on January 30th, 1749 in St. Andrä, between 1760 and 1767 he appeared as a chapel boy, afterwards he studied theology at the University of Salzburg and on March 16, 1773 he was ordained a priest. Since he was musical, Leopold Mozart was one of his teachers, he later rose to become choir vicar . Apparently he had also learned the organ trade from his father, for he took care of the instruments during his father's illness and had to tune the piano at court, in the theater and in the whole town hall . Leopold Mozart called him the spiritual H. Egedacher and reported that he had only come from Polling , where he set up an organ that his father made there. Now he is going to Radstadt because of the new organ and will be absent for 14 days or 3 weeks . Since he was able to complete the organs in Polling and Radstadt, which his father had begun in the meantime, he must have mastered the trade of organ building quite well. On the other hand, Leopold Mozart advised the new court organ maker Johann Ev. Schmidt , he should buy up all the piano frames of the late Rochus Egedacher so that his son, the cleric Egedacher, is deprived of the opportunity to make bad pianos, which only annoys one another . Furthermore, on January 19, 1786, after the death of Rochus Egedacher, he reported that the ghost. Egedacher [...] found to be good [have] some tool to the side evacuate. And on March 10th, 1786, he expressed the hope that the clergy from Egedacher would soon come under supervision, and not, for example, make a little contribution to the organ maker with voices and botch-up etc. or get into a dispute with him . A week later Leopold Mozart, who had apparently been behind the scenes to remove Rochus Franz Ignaz Egedacher from the city of Salzburg, wrote that he had said goodbye to him with tears in his eyes. Mozart wanted to send him his music notes to the Franciscans in Hundsdorf, where Egedacher had then left. Unsuspectingly, Egedacher congratulated Mozart on his name day, November 15th (Leopold), and asked for some sonatas to be published, which Nannerl Mozart had already taken to St. Gilgen. Rochus Franz Ignaz Egedacher had to spend time in the priestly house of Kirchental , a correctional institution for priests to be disciplined, for the first time probably in 1781, when he was told by Regens Johann Georg Winkelhofer (1781–1784) as a drinker, debt maker, lazy and indolent, as a liar and Had been designated as instigators of quarrels . During his later stay there in 1806, he repaired the organ that his grandfather Johann Christoph Egedacher had built in 1717. He needed for his work four to five weeks, earning of rain Philipp Jakob Metzger (1805-1825) praise, because he [is] a lot of effort into mending, and utter the same sentiment [made] have - and because the organ, according to the local organist Leumuller in a pretty good state, and pure tuning had been established . The consistory approved 4 convention thalers for its work . On July 25, 1798, he had also become chaplain of the Josef Brotherhood at Salzburg Cathedral, a function that was not very popular because it was poorly paid for.
Rochus Franz Ignaz Egedacher died as the last living person from the Egedacher organ building dynasty on January 22nd, 1824 in Salzburg.

literature

• Wilhelm A. Bauer / Otto Erich German: Mozart. Letters and Notes . Complete edition in 7 volumes, ed. from the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg, Kassel a. a. 1966-75, ISBN 3-7618-0401-6 (Volume III).
• Ernst Hintermaier: The Salzburg Court Chapel from 1700 to 1806 . Organization and staff. Dissertation University of Salzburg 1972.
• Sæcularis Memoria defunctorum sacerdotum Archidioecesis Salisburgensis from 1800–1900 . Salzburg 1901.
• Roman Schmeißner: Organ building in Salzburg's pilgrimage churches , Duisburg & Cologne: WiKu-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-86553-446-0 (also dissertation: Studies on organ building in pilgrimage churches of the Archdiocese of Salzburg , Mozarteum University 2012).
• Heinz Schuler: Egedacher . Origin, life and work of a southern German organ builder family from 1624 to 1786. In: Genealogie , Jg. 27 (1978), No. 12, pp. 369–389.
• Rupert Struber: Priest correction institutions in the Archdiocese of Salzburg in the 18th and 19th centuries . Science and Religion, Frankfurt am Main 2004 (publications of the International Research Center for Basic Questions in the Sciences Salzburg, Volume 5), also dissertation University of Salzburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-631-51815-1 br.
• Gerhard Walterskirchen: Organs and Organ Builders in Salzburg from the Middle Ages to the Present . Dissertation University of Salzburg 1982.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Staff status of the secular and regular clergy of the Archdiocese of Salzburg , Salzburg 1822, p. 19.
2. ^ Wilhelm A. Bauer / Otto Erich German: Mozart. Letters and Notes . Kassel u. a. 1963, Vol. III, No. 836, line 9f.
3. ^ Wilhelm A. Bauer / Otto Erich German: Mozart. Letters and Notes . Kassel u. a. 1963, Vol. III, No. 836, lines 20f.
4. ^ Wilhelm A. Bauer / Otto Erich German: Mozart. Letters and Notes . Kassel u. a. 1963, Vol. III, No. 836, line 90.
5. ^ Wilhelm A. Bauer / Otto Erich German: Mozart. Letters and Notes . Kassel u. a. 1963, Vol. III, No. 836, line 10.
6. ^ Wilhelm A. Bauer / Otto Erich German: Mozart. Letters and Notes . Kassel u. a. 1963, Vol. III, No. 836, line 65.
7. ^ Wilhelm A. Bauer / Otto Erich German: Mozart. Letters and Notes . Kassel u. a. 1963, Vol. III, No. 836, lines 44-48.
8. ^ Wilhelm A. Bauer / Otto Erich German: Mozart. Letters and Notes . Kassel u. a. 1963, Vol. III, No. 1010, lines 61f.
9. ↑ Rupert Struber: Priest correction institutions in the Archdiocese of Salzburg in the 18th and 19th centuries , Salzburg 2003 (Science and Religion, Volume 5), p. 114f.
10. ↑ AES : Box 8, compartment 100, fascicle 4 (Lofer and Kirchental, June 30, 1806)
11. ^ AES: Box 8, Subject 100, Fascicle 4 (Salzburg, July 2, 1806)
12. ↑ Rupert Klieber: Brotherhoods and associations of love after Trient . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-631-34044-3 , pp. 378 .
13. ↑ Sæcularis Memoria defunctorum sacerdotum Archidioecesis Salisburgensis from anno 1800–1900 , Salzburg 1901, p. 7.