Joseph Balthasar Hochreither (1669-1731)
- Missa Jubilus Sacer a 8 et 15 (1731)
Performers: Alois Mühlbacher (soprano); Markus Forster (countertenor); Markus Miesenberger (tenor);
Gerhard Kenda (bass);
St. Florianer Sängerknaben; Ars Antiqua Austria; Gunar Letzbor (conductor)
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Austrian composer. According to Hochreiter himself, one of his ancestors
(perhaps his father) had been a treble at the monastery in Lambach in
about 1650, had learnt to play the organ, and from 1662 had been
employed (possibly as organist) there; he had also completed an
important music inventory. Hochreiter himself was organist at the abbey
at Lambach in Upper Austria from 1696 to 1721; he also trained the
choirboys and some organists there, and set down his experiences in the
manuscript Praecepta quaedam observanda, quae pro emolumento bonae
musices maxime proderunt, dummo observentur (c.1710, A-LA). He was at
that time a close friend of Stephan Hieber, organist at the monastery in
Kremsmünster (Upper Austria); he dedicated a mass to the abbot of that
monastery in 1705 for the abbot’s nameday. In the same year he dedicated
the Missa ad multos annos and the Missa genethliaca to Abbot Maximilian
Pagl of Lambach, for his birthday and for his installation. In 1721 he
relinquished his post in favour of the composer Maximilian Röll and, on
the recommendation of Abbot Pagl, became cathedral organist at Salzburg
and organist to the prince-archbishop; he held that office until his
death. His name is not mentioned in the Necrologium of Lambach, so he
could not have been in holy orders. From his compositions Hochreiter
emerges as a skilful contrapuntist, and his vigorous orchestration is
striking. In so far as conclusions can be drawn about his teaching
activity from his vocal music, he must have been an outstanding choir
trainer. In his masses he follows the grand polychoral style of the 17th
century, still practised in Rome.
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