Romanus Weichlein

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Romanus Weichlein (born November 11, 1652 in Linz as Andreas Franz Weichlein ; † September 8, 1706 in Maria-Haid, today Kleinfrauenhaid ) was an Austrian composer and violinist of the Baroque era .

Life

Romanus Weichlein was the son of a family of musicians from Linz who probably received his first music lessons from his father, Anton Seydler and Benjamin Ludwig Ramhaufski . Weichlein came to the Benedictine monastery Lambach in 1671 as a novice and took the first name Romanus. In December of the same year he studied theology and philosophy in Salzburg, where he was presumably given musical instruction by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber . After completing his studies, he celebrated the solemn primacy on July 8, 1678. In 1691 he became music prefect and resident composer in the Benedictine monastery of Säben near Klausen in South Tyrol. From 1705 until his death he was pastor in Kleinfrauenhaid.

Weichlein left behind several sonata collections and masses. Numerous works that he dedicated to various Tyrolean monasteries were lost. The preserved works are in the tradition of his compatriots Biber, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer , Pavel Josef Vejvanovský and Georg Muffat .

Works (selection)

  • Missa rectorum cordium 1687
  • A violin sonata (1688)
  • Encænia Musices Op. 1 - sonatas for several parts, printed by Jakob Christoph Wagner (Innsbruck, 1695), available in the Codex Rost of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
  • Parnassus Ecclesiastico Musicus Op. 2 - Collection of seven masses (Ulm, 1702)
  • Several lost masses

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Weichlein family in the Austrian Music Lexicon online
personal data
SURNAME Sissy, Romanus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weichlein, Andreas Franz (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer of the Baroque
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1652
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1706
Place of death Maria-Haid, today Kleinfrauenhaid