Johann Valentin Rathgeber (1682-1750)
- Missa VIII. S. Rosarii B.V. Mariæ. (1730)
Performers: Bеrufsfachschulе für Musik Bad Königshofеn
Further info: Johann Valentin Rathgeber (1682-1750) - Messe von Muri
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German composer. He received his earliest musical education from his
father, who held the combined posts of village organist and
schoolmaster. In 1701 he entered the University of Würzburg to study
theology, and in 1704 became a schoolmaster and organist at the
Juliusspital in Würzburg. He went to the Benedictine abbey of Banz early
in 1707 as chamber musician and servant to the abbot, and by the end of
the year had become a novice. In 1711 he was ordained, and about the
same time was appointed choirmaster at Banz, a post which he held, with
one interruption, for the rest of his life. In 1721 the Augsburg firm of
Lotter issued the first of his many publications, a volume of masses.
Eight years later, when he had established a considerable reputation as a
composer of church music, he sought permission to leave Banz for a
European tour; he was refused and left without it. He visited Würzburg,
Augsburg, Bonn, Cologne, Trier and Benedictine houses in Swabia and
around Lake Constance. One of his reasons for making this tour seems to
have been to gather information about performance conditions and
liturgical customs in the Catholic areas of Germany; in the preface to
his op.9 Vespers he said that he had added settings of the Compline
psalms as, though sung Compline was not customary in his part of
Germany, it was more common in the Rhineland and he had been asked to
provide music for it. He also turned his attention to secular vocal
music. The first two volumes of the Ohren-vergnügendes und
Gemüth-ergötzendes Tafel-Confect, a collection of popular songs which he
edited and arranged, were published by Lotter in 1733 and 1737
respectively. Although he was reinstated as choirmaster after his return
to Banz and readmission to the community, Rathgeber produced no more
church music after 1739. He continued to work on the Tafel-Confect,
whose last volume appeared in 1746, and in 1743 his last original
composition was published, a set of short and simple keyboard pieces. He
died in 1750 after a long illness.
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