Rupert Ignaz Mayr

Rupert Ignaz Mayr (* 1646 in Schärding / Inn; † February 7, 1712 in Freising ) was a German violinist , composer and court music director.

life and work

Rupert Ignaz Mayr was born in Schärding am Inn (today Upper Austria) in 1646. Little is known about his youth and his musical training. Presumably he had lessons in nearby Passau . In 1678 he was violinist in the episcopal chapel in Eichstätt and partly in Regensburg , from 1683 to 1685 at the episcopal court in Passau and from 1685 at the electoral court chapel with Maximilian II. Emanuel in Munich . The elector sent him to Paris to study with Jean-Baptiste Lully . From 1706 he was the episcopal court conductor with Johann Franz Eckher von Kapfing and Liechteneck in Freising, where he died on February 7, 1712.

In accordance with his areas of responsibility as violinist and court conductor, Mayr preferred to create church music and instrumental works. The seven orchestral suites “Pythagorische Schmids-Fuencklein” from 1692 are particularly well-known, with which he alludes to the legend of Pythagoras in the smithy about the discovery of the numerical relationships of the musical intervals. He also provided music for some school dramas (see also Jesuit theater ), as can be seen from some surviving documents. Similar to Georg Muffat , who was also a student of Lully, or Johann Philipp Krieger , he combines French, Italian and German elements in a highly baroque tonal language.

Works

• SACRI CONCENTUS psalmorum, antiphonarum, piarum Cantionum ex sola voce et diversis instrumentis, op.3, Regensburg 1681.
• Wistful mourning poem about the step ... Marquardi II. Bishop of Eichstädt 1685.
• Pythagorean Schmids-Fuencklein consisting of different arias Sonatinas Overtures Allemanden Couranten Gavotten Sarabanden Giquen Menueten & c. With 4 instruments and accompanying general bass, Bey Tafel-Musicken Comoedien Serenaten and other happy gatherings to use , Augsburg 1692.
• GAZOPHYLACIUM MUSICO-SACRUM refertum Vigintiquinque Offertoriis Dominicalibus seu Motettis de omni tempore à 4. & 5. Vocibus Concert. 2. Violinibus necess. 3. Trombonis vel Violis, ad lib. Concert. 4. Ripienis per pleno Choro, & duplici Basso Continuo , Augsburg 1702
• PSALMODIA BREVIS AD VESPERAS TOTIUS ANNI à 4th Vocibus Concertantibus, 2nd Violinis Necessarijs, 3, Violis vel Trombonis, ET 4th Ripienis ad libitum per pleno Choro, Cum Duplici Basso Continuo , Augsburg 1706.

School dramas

• Perfidia Sibimet Inimica Tragoedia Ludis autumnalibus in Scenam data; ... presented by the youth of the Churfürstlichen Gymnasij Soc. Jesus in Munich. The 2nd and 5th autumn month, Anno 1701.
• Thesaurus absconditus, quaesitus, repertus Sive, S. Nonnosus Ord. S. Benedicti abbas Soractensis cathed. Ecclesiae Frising. patronus sub ... regimine ... episcopi Frisingensis Joannis Francisci ... anno superiori e longis sepulchri tenebris in lucem, ac modo in scenam productus a musis Frisingensibus anno 1709. the 3rd of Septemb.
• Felix Eustachii Infelicitas ... a Musis Benedictinis Frisingensibus Pro Distributione Proemiorum In Scenam Producta The 3rd & 5th September MDCCX; [Perioche, Freising, 1710.]

Sound recordings

• Rupert Ignaz Mayr: Vespers of Mary. With works from Psalmodia brevis and Sacri contentus . Mechthild Bach (soprano), Dorothée Zimmermann (alto), Hans Jörg Mammel (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass); Capella Weilburgensis vocale, L'arpa festante , Doris Hagel. Triptych, 2003.
• Rupert Ignaz Mayr: “Confitebor tibi.” Psalms - Motets - Concerti. Mechthild Bach (soprano), Elisabeth Popien (alto), Hans Jörg Mammel, Gotthold Schwarz ; Capella Weilburgensis vocale, L'arpa festante, Doris Hagel. Profile, 2006.

literature

• Karl Gustav Fellerer : Rupert Ignaz Mayr and his church music . In: Archive for Music Research I, 1936.
• Konrad Ruhland: Music history "limitless". Some comments on this from the Passau region. In: Egon Boshof, Max Brunner, Elisabeth Vavra (eds.): Limitless. History of the people on the Inn. Catalog for the first Bavarian-Upper Austrian regional exhibition in 2004. Asbach - Passau - Reichersberg - Schärding. Regensburg 2004, pp. 195-201.
• Irmgard Schmid: Rupert Ignaz Mayr (1646-1712). T. 1: The compositions for the musical theater. Diss. Univ. Salzburg 1989.
• Irmgard Schmid:  Mayr, Rupert Ignaz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 568 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Schmid: Rupert Ignaz Mayr (1646-1712). A Schärdinger composer. In: Festschrift 650 years of the city of Schärding. Ried 1966, pp. 13-35.

Web links

• Works by and about Rupert Ignaz Mayr in the catalog of the German National Library