diumenge, 23 de maig del 2021

PEMBAUR, Josef (1848-1923) - Festmesse (1876)

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) - Portrait of Josef Pembaur (1890)


Josef Pembaur (1848-1923) - Festmesse (1876)
Performers: Maria Erlacher (soprano); Monika Duringer (alto); Johannes Puchleitner (tenor); Ralf Ernst (bass); Kirchenchor Fulpmes-Telfes; Kammerchor und Orchester des Ferdinandeums; Josef Wetzinger (leitung)

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Austrian conductor and composer. At the age of 8, he started playing piano and received lessons with Franz Huber in Innsbruck. After completing the first years of academic education, he dropped out of school for devoting himself entirely to music. In Vienna he met Bruckner, from whom he received classes while beginning his career as a conductor and composer. He also studied piano and singing at the Wien Conservatory. For a time he lived in Munich where, in addition to studying with Rheinberger, he married Caroline Kraus. In 1873 he returned to Innsbruck where he was appointed music director and in 1877 choir director of the academic choir. In 1883, the University of Innsbruck appointed him academic director of music. As a composer, his output include numerous compositions for soloists, male choir and orchestra (Gott der Weltenschöpfer, Zapfenstreich, Spätherbst, Die Schalachtam Berg Isel) as well as the opera 'Zigeunerliebe' (1898), the melodrama 'Das Klagende Lied', the symphony In Tirol, 8 Latin Masses, including the Deutsche Festmesse, a Requiem (1916), a Stabat Mater, offerings, hymns and motets as well as several a cappella choirs, a Cello Concerto, a Sonata, an organ improvisation and a large number of piano and voice pieces. He also published a book on harmony and modulation (1901) and 'Über das Dirigieren' (1907).

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