Theodor Grau

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Theodor Grau OFM (born April 10, 1886 in Kelheim as Karl Edmund Grau , † July 3, 1957 in Munich ) was a German Franciscan and composer.

Life

Karl Grau was the son of a goldsmith from Kelheim. He spent his high school in Regensburg and Landshut. He entered the Franciscan order and was given the name Theodor . After philosophical and theological studies at the Order colleges of the Bavarian Franciscan Province in Bad Toelz and Munich he received in 1911 in Freising Cathedral , the ordination . Between 1912 and 1921 Grau worked as a pastor in the monasteries of Ingolstadt , Füssen , Munich and Landshut . Afterwards he became choir director of St. Anna in Munich on the recommendation of the Regensburg cathedral music director Franz Xaver Engelhart . The church musicians Michael Haller and Peter Griesbacher praised his musical talent. Grau took private composition lessons from Gottfried Rüdinger (1886–1946) for two years . In 1933 he was transferred from Munich to Nuremberg as Guardian and Choir Regent, and in 1936 to Füssen in the same position. Then he was vicar in the Franciscan monastery at the pilgrimage church Maria Hilf in Amberg . In 1942 he returned to the parish of St. Gabriel in Munich , where he worked as choir director until his death.

In many places in Bavaria, Father Theodor Grau, as a composer and choir conductor, has made a significant contribution to improving music care in the spiritual and secular areas. Grau represented a strictly Catholic conception of church music, which for him should be close to the people and emphasize the atmosphere, and was strictly against modernist innovations. He appeared in sermons as a staunch opponent of National Socialism; a conflict with the Nuremberg Gauleiter Julius Streicher made his transfer to Füssen necessary in 1936. He fought both communism and tendencies critical of the church in the post-war media.

Works

Masses and Requiems

  • Requiem op.10
  • German Communion Mass op. 30a
  • Eucharistic Singing Mass op. 30b
  • Francis Mass op.45
  • Our Lady Mass op.51
  • Requiem op.52
  • St. Gabriel's Mass op.58
  • Missa brevis II de Requiem op.60
  • German Marienmesse op. 66

Holy songs

  • Fifteen German Marienlieder op.1
  • Loreto hard litany Op. 2
  • Wounds of St. Francis and Penitential Song op.3
  • Ave Maria and O salutaris op. 4
  • Vota mea op. 5
  • My Jesus come to me op.7
  • Ave, pia Maria op.8
  • Miserere Op. 9
  • Psalm 120 op.11
  • Eucharistic Chants op.12
  • Three Lauds et Gratiae Op. 13
  • Peace to the Dead op.14
  • Song to the 14 hl. Emergency helpers op.16
  • Two Marienlieder Op. 17
  • Mission Cross Song op.19
  • Mary, help op. 20
  • Infant Jesus come to me op.21
  • Three Stations of the Cross op.22
  • Wallfahrtslied to Our Lady of Roggenacker op. 23
  • Terziarienliedersammlung op.24
  • Prayer and our Father op.26
  • St. Anna Song , Op. 27
  • Seven Eucharistic Chants op.28
  • Our Lady op.29
  • Four Pange lingua op.31
  • Two Christmas carols op.32
  • Marian Kongregations-ordination song Op. 33
  • Resurrection song and Oster chorus op. 34
  • Matettes in hon. BPN Fransisci and Magnificabitur op.35
  • Under your protection and mantle op.36
  • Do it Petrus op.37
  • Hymni Eucharistici op. 41
  • Laudes Eucharistici op.42
  • Loreto hard litany op. 43
  • In the Garden of Our Lady op.44
  • Three simple funeral songs op.46
  • Songs of introspection , Op. 47
  • Lamentation of the prophets and prayer op.48
  • Einkleidungs- and Profeßgesänge op. 49
  • Ave Maria and song of thanksgiving , Op. 50
  • Ecce sacerdos op.53
  • 21 Pange lingua op.54
  • Motets and Exspectans exspectavi op. 55
  • Bride singing and bride oath op. 56
  • Three funeral chants at warriors' graves op.57
  • Two St. Gabriel songs and St. Michael song op.59
  • Francis Elizabeth Clare Rasso song op. 61
  • Song of thanksgiving and hymn op. 62
  • Two Marienlieder , Please to Mary and Marienlob op. 63
  • Anima Christi op.65

Secular compositions

  • Bayernhymne op. 6
  • Bayern march op. 15
  • Vöglein's Message op.18
  • Kelheimer Heimatlied op.38
  • Wasserburger Heimatlied op.39
  • My home village , Op. 40
  • Patrona Bavariae Lied op.64

Fonts

  • The May and Sacred Heart of Jesus devotion in prayer and song. Devotional book (prayer and song texts) op.25

literature

  • Wolfgang Hoffmann: Franciscan Composition Practice in the 20th Century in the Province of Bavaria. In: Musik in Bayern 62 (2002), pp. 57–76.
  • Christoph Lickleder: The Kelheim composer P. Theodor Grau, OFM. Katholisches Bildungswerk, Kelheim 1981, OCLC 634207429 .
  • Christoph Lickleder: In memory of P. Theodor Grau OFM. In: Musica sacra 102 (1982), pp. 349-350.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudibert Ettelt: history of the town Kelheim: from the city's founding to the end of the 18th century. Stadt Kelheim, Kelheim 1983, OCLC 631418816 , p. 636 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ^ Chronicle of the parish of St. Ludwig in Nuremberg (= sources on the history and culture of the city of Nuremberg, volume 26). Self-published by the City Council, Nuremberg 1997, ISBN 3-925002-26-X , pp. 108, 121 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ^ Bavarian piety: 1400 years of Christian Bavaria. Exhibition on the occasion of the World Eucharistic Congress Munich 1960 [exhibition catalog]. Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1960, p. 363 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Gray, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grau, Karl Edmund (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Franciscan and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Kelheim
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1957
Place of death Munich