Sixtus Bachmann

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Sixtus Bachmann OPraem (also: Sixt Bachmann ; * July 18, 1754 in Kettershausen ; † October 18, 1825 in Reutlingendorf ) was a German organist , composer and priest ( Premonstratensian ).

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Memorial stone for Sixtus Bachmann in Kettershausen

Bachmann received the name Joseph Sigmund Eugen from his parents and was trained musically by his father Franz Anton Bachmann. He probably received further training from his maternal grandfather, FJ Schmöger, choir regent and organist of the Biberbach monastery church . He was trained in the Fultenbach monastery and from 1766 onwards, Bachmann was a Benedictine student in the Oberelchingen monastery . In the same year, the highly gifted twelve-year-old piano and organ player in the monastery church of Biberbach had an organ competition with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was two years his junior . The sources report that the contest ended very gloriously for both of them.

In 1771 Bachmann joined the Marchtal imperial abbey of the Premonstratensian Order . In 1773 he made his religious profession there and received the religious name Sixtus (Sixt). In 1778 he was ordained a priest. He continued his musical education as an autodidact. In the monastery he worked as a choir director, music and theology teacher. There was a flourishing musical culture in the Marchthal Monastery. a. had worked there before Bachmann Isfrid Kayser . Bachmann studied the music theory writings of Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler . In 1800 the order appointed him professor of theology. After the abolition of the Marchtal monastery, Bachmann became a pastor in nearby Reutlingendorf in 1803 . During this time he brought out works by his friar, the poet Sebastian Sailer (1714–1777) posthumously. Bachmann was active as a composer throughout his life.

Works / editions

  • Missa solemnis in C
  • Sonata per il fortepiano, ô harpsichord in D major ( digitized )
  • The fugues celebrees pour the orgue or the clavecin. Edited by Michael Gerhard Kaufmann, Daimonon-Verlag.
  • Double choir festival mass. In: Monuments of Music in Baden-Württemberg , Volume 5. Ed. Rudolf Faber, Munich 1997.
  • Piano and vocal music by Sixtus Bachmann. Anniversary edition for the 250th birthday. Edited by Berthold Büchele. Association for the care of home and customs Ratzenried eV Ratzenried 2004.
    • Cantata The Prodigal Son , for two voices and piano
    • Sonata movement in F major
    • Fugue in C major
    • Capriccio
    • Andantino from the Sonata in E major
    • Fugue in B flat major
    • Arioso ( cancer piece)
    • Minuet from the Arlequinade , for violin and piano
    • minuet
    • Motet The Man Lives and Exists , for voice and piano
    • Cadence over the year 1825
  • Five sonatas for piano or organ. First printing. Edited by Berthold Büchele and Manfred Schwendner. Association for the care of home and customs Ratzenried e. V. Ratzenried. 2009.
  • Sonate pour le Piano Forte in G minor ( digitized version )

Audio samples

literature

  • Gertrud Beck: The family houses and family ties of the monastery composers Isfrid Kayser and Sixtus Bachmann . In: Max Müller (Ed.): Marchtal . Süddeutsche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Ulm 1992, ISBN 3-88294-182-0 , pp. 303-320
  • Arrey von Dommer:  Bachmann, Father Sixtus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 754.
  • Michael Gerhard Kaufmann: "... which testifies to the solid sez and variety of the skillful author ...". Sixtus Bachmann and his X Fugues célèbres in the context of southern German organ culture . In: Ulrich Siegele (ed.): Oberschwäbische Klostermusik in a European context . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-631-51906-0 , pp. 155–169 (with catalog raisonné pp. 167–169)
  • Franz Krautwurst: Schubert and Sixtus Bachmann . In: Music in Bavaria. Half-yearly publication of the Society for Bavarian Music History . Volume 48, 1994, pp. 85-90
  • Manuela Oberst: "The plaintive musical instruments". An Obermarchtaler play by Sixtus Bachmann from 1772 . In: Building blocks for history (= Alb and Danube, art and culture; 2). Alb-Donau-Kreis, Ulm 2003, pp. 21-27
  • Ulrich Siegele:  Bachmann, Joseph Siegmund Eugen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 499 ( digitized version ).
  • Thierry Hirsch: “Notes on the Missa Solennis in C by Sixtus Bachmann. Supplements and supplements to the monuments of music art in Baden-Württemberg ”. In A.–K. Zimmermann (Ed.): Music in Baden-Württemberg. 2010 yearbook . (Munich), pp. 89-105

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Music in Past and Present (MGG) , 2nd edition, Person Part B, Vol. 1, 1999, p. 882.
  2. ^ Ernst Fritz Schmid: A Swabian Mozart Book. Bürger, Lorch-Stuttgart 1948. P. 151ff.
  3. ↑ Gertrud Beck: The parents' houses and family ties with the monastery composers Isfrid Kayser and Sixtus Bachmann . In: Marchtal , Ulm, 1992
  4. ↑ Berthold Büchele: Foreword. In: Sixt Bachmann: 5 sonatas for piano or organ. 2009.
  5. ↑ 1200 years of Reutlingendorf. Obermarchtal community. Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Ulm 1990.
personal data
SURNAME Bachmann, Sixtus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bachmann, Sixt; Bachmann, Joseph Sigmund Eugen (baptismal name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, composer and religious
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Kettershausen
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1825
Place of death Reutlingendorf