Matthaus Nagiller (1815-1874)
- Ouverture 'Herzog Friedrich von Tirol' (1860)
Performers: Orchester der Akademie St. Blаsіus; Karlheinz Sіеssl (conductor)
Further info: Matthäus Nagiller (1815-1874) - Symphonie Nr.1 (1845)
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Austrian composer and conductor. He received his first musical
instruction at Schwaz, from the choirmaster Georg Benedikt Pichler, and
continued his studies under Martin Goller at Innsbruck and then at the
Vienna Conservatory under Simon Sechter and Gottfried Preyer. From 1842
to 1848 he lived in Paris. He lectured at the Conservatory, and from
1843 he taught Thomas Tellefsen composition who stated about his
teacher: “I've begun taking lessons in theory from a student of Simon
Sechter, a famous Viennese contrapuntist, whose name is Nagiller, and
who is a great composer and has a solid knowledge from Johann Philipp
Kirnberger, as Sechter belongs to the circle of Kirnberger and Bach; you
would not imagine how happy he was when I showed him my treasures of
Israel Gottlieb Wernicke, Ole Andreas Lindeman and the Bachs; he was
extremely happy and found in 'Die Kunst des reinen Satzes' an appendix
which he could not get in Vienna in a great music library.” Also in
Paris, Matthäus Nagiller premiered his best-known instrumental score,
the Symphony No.1 (1845), considered his masterwork. In 1847 he began an
extensive concert tour through Germany with remarkable success. In 1848
he returned to Austria, settling in Bozen. In 1854 he was in Munich
where he lived until 1861, premiering several masses, songs and a
concert overture. In 1865 he returned to Bozen as the city's music
director before moving permanently to Innsbruck where he assumed the
director post of the Musikverein. As a composer his output is almost
enterely vocal (operas, masses, songs, lieder, hymns et al.) but he also
left a symphony, several overtures and keyboard pieces. His style is
close to his Tyrolean fellows Johann Baptist Gänsbacher, Josef Netzer
and Johann Rufinatscha and its very representative of the Tyrol music.
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