Edmund Angerer (1740-1794) - Missa Pastoritia in D et g (c.1770)
Performers: Klаra Sаttlеr (soprano); Birgit Plаnkеl (alt); Robert
Hillеbrаnd (tenor); Pаtrick Oеttеrli (bass);
Kammerchor und
Kammerorchester des Fеrdinаndеums; Josеf Wеtzingеr (conductor)
Further info: Edmund Angerer (1740-1794) - Missa Pastorale
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Austrian composer. He was the son of the organist Stefan Angerer
(1711-after 1777), who gave him his early musical instruction. As a boy
he attended the Gymnasium of Hall in Tyrol; he was a chorister at the
Königliches Damenstift there, which had an excellent Kapelle, 1754-57,
and in 1759 studied composition with Vigilio Blasio Faitello. In 1758
Angerer entered the Benedictine abbey of Fiecht, then famous for its
music. He was ordained priest in 1764, and was a choirmaster of the
abbey and a music teacher at the abbey school until he fell ill in 1793.
He had close links with the Cistercian abbey of Stams, which he visited
several times, sometimes performing his own compositions there. Many of
Angerer’s compositions were lost in fires at the Fiecht abbey, and few
of those surviving in collections elsewhere are dated. In 1996 he was
identified as the composer of the famous Kindersinfonie (‘Toy
Symphony’), previously attributed variously to Joseph Haydn, Michael
Haydn and Leopold Mozart. His works are melodious and attractive in
style, and make use of tone-painting and material reminiscent of
folksong, with such features as alphorn glissandos and unusual
instruments such as the conch trumpet, goat horn and glockenspiel. Many
of his settings of Mass Propers are set in a cantata manner, with free
texts in German.
