Vincent Goller

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Vinzenz Goller (born March 9, 1873 in St. Andrä near Brixen , South Tyrol ; † September 11, 1953 in St. Michael im Lungau ) was a composer and church musician .

Life

Like many musicians, Vinzenz Goller comes from a musical family. His father Josef was a primary school teacher in St. Andrä and also worked there as a sacristan and organist . But not only this breeding ground, but also his above-average musical and pedagogical talent were decisive for his later career.

Goller became involved early on as a singer in the local church choir . It wasn't long before he became a substitute organist. In addition, he dealt with music notation and transposing .

As a choirboy and student, Goller came to the Augustinian Canons of Neustift when he was twelve . There, his talent was Chorale - and choral singing and violin - and French horn game further promoted. Goller met Josef Gasser and Ignaz Mitterer , who were of the same age, in the monastery .

Goller began studying at the teachers' seminar in 1888 and later at the municipal music school (with Josef Pembaur ) in Innsbruck, and at the church music school in Regensburg (with Franz Xaver Haberl and Michael Haller ). In 1899 he married Maria Josefa Pfeifhofer from Sexten . From this marriage there were seven children. After several years of school service, he became a church musician in Deggendorf in 1903. After completing his studies at the Vienna Music Academy, in 1910 he was commissioned to set up the department for Catholic church music in Vienna-Klosterneuburg, which he directed himself until 1933 and where he taught counterpoint and church composition until 1937. Since 1910 he was a member of the Catholic student association KHV Welfia Klosterneuburg.

When Italy went over to the Allies in May 1915 , Goller volunteered to join the Standschützen and fought on the Dolomite front . As captain of the Sillian battalion, he managed to recapture the forame summit in the Cristallo group on September 6, 1916 . This success was so important to the Austrian army command that the Sillian battalion was the only one to receive a marble monument in memory of these battles. This is now on the town's marketplace.

After the battalions Welsberg , Lienz and Sillian were merged into the Standschützen Battalion Pustertal in spring 1918 , Goller was appointed battalion commander and in June major . He shared the same fate as many other soldiers and was taken prisoner of war in September 1918 . However, Goller managed to escape from the camp near Mantua and settled into Switzerland along mountain paths that were rarely used . In 1919 he finally returned to Vienna and started teaching again.

At the request of Archduke Eugen , the commandant of the Southwest Front, Goller composed a German singing mass to commemorate the storming of the Forame summit. This should be performed at field services.

Memorial plaque in Klosterneuburg

Goller was also politically active. In 1933 he was elected to the local council and three years later he was elected mayor of Klosterneuburg . When Austria was occupied by the National Socialists in 1938 , they removed Goller from his office. Two of his children joined the resistance . In 1941 Goller moved with his family to St. Michael im Lungau. Five years later his wife Maria died, after which he moved to live with his siblings in South Tyrol . He only returned to Klosterneuburg in 1950.

In 1953 Goller was made an honorary member of the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He could no longer accept this award, however, because he died of pneumonia before the award .

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Church music

Vinzenz Goller created numerous liturgical compositions (masses, offertories, etc.), which were primarily intended for simpler conditions (e.g. for amateur choirs) and were widely used. The most famous of his organ masses are the Loreto mass and the Clemens Hofbauer mass . The Easter Te Deum and the large a cappella mass “Orbis factor” are to be recognized as the most mature and artistically valuable works . After the First World War, the completely changed church music situation led to a new type of mass , the "cantor mass" , in which a cantor approaches the choir to actively participate with the greatest possible involvement of all those gathered in the church.

With compositions based on German texts with the active participation of the community, he laid the foundations for the reorientation of Catholic church music in the 20th century. His conception of the importance of the congregation singing led him to the very significant saying: for the active participation of the congregation he would give all his compositions.

Chamber music

  • Fanfares on festive occasions for 4 horns

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  1. ↑ a b Portrait of Vinzenz Goller ( Memento from December 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on clubosttirol.at
  2. ↑ Short biography of Vinzenz Goller on domchorbrixen.it
  3. ↑ a b Ludwig Wiedemayr: World War II East Tyrol - The communities on the Carnic Front in the eastern Pustertal , Lienz 2007
  4. ^ Standschützendenkmal in Sillian ( Memento from August 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b c Adelheid Hlawacek: Vinzenz Goller

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personal data
SURNAME Goller, Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Composer and church musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Andrä near Brixen , South Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1953
Place of death St. Michael im Lungau