Karl Constanz (1747-1817)
- Offertorium de Nativitate Domini 'Quem vidistis pastores' (c.1770)
Performers: Chor und Orchester der Akademie St. Blаsius; Kаrlhеinz Siеssl (conductor)
Further info: Karl Constanz (1747-1817) - Pastoralmesse D-moll
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Austrian organist and composer. He was the son of Josef Constanz
(?-1788), the organist at the Pfarrkirche St. Michael in Brixen. His
early years remain unknown but he probably received music lessons from
his father. In 1770, and after he was ordained a priest, he was settled
in Salzburg for the next two years to enhace his musical skills playing
the organ. So far it has not been possible to clarify with whom Constanz
took lessons in Salzburg but he probably was closely related to Michael
Haydn and the Mozarts. After his return to Brixen in 1772, he was
awarded the benefit “ad omnes sanctos” and was promoted to court
musician. In 1775 he succeeded the Brixen court organist Franz
Hopfgartner (1714-1775) and he held this post at the Metropolitan Church
of Tyrol until his death. During his long career as organist, he
experienced the secularization of the Prince-Bishopric of Brixen and the
associated transformation of the Prince-Bishop's court music into
Brixen Cathedral Music. As a composer of church music, he achieved
nationwide fame. His most widespread work, the Ave Maria in Es-dur, has
survived in the music archives of Stams, Hall, Schwaz, Feldkirch and
Einsiedeln. He also wrote several masses, offertories, hymns, psalms and
motets, the most of them only preserved in manuscript. His brother
Josef Anton Constanz (1753-?) was also organist and composer.
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