Franz Anton Maichelbeck (6 July 1702 – 14 June 1750) was a German
organist
An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ (music), organ. An organist may play organ repertoire, solo organ works, play with an musical ensemble, ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumentalist, instrumental ...
and
composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and def ...
.
Life
Born in
Reichenau Island
Reichenau Island () is an island in Lake Constance in Southern Germany. It lies almost due west of the city of Konstanz, between the Gnadensee and the Untersee, two parts of Lake Constance. With a total land surface of and a circumference o ...
, Maichelbeck grew up there with twelve siblings and attended the . He studied
theology
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in Freiburg from 1721 and was sent to Rome on 27 September 1725 to study
church music
Church music is a genre of Christian music written for performance in church, or any musical setting of ecclesiastical liturgy, or music set to words expressing propositions of a sacred nature, such as a hymn.
History
Early Christian musi ...
. In 1727/1728 he was appointed organist and cathedral
kapellmeister
( , , ), from German (chapel) and (master), literally "master of the chapel choir", designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term has evolved considerably in i ...
at the
Freiburg Cathedral. Later he was appointed by prince bishop
Johann Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg as ''HofKapellmeister'' in Augsburg.
Anton died in
Freiburg im Breisgau
Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of abou ...
at age 47.
Publications and works
*1738: ''Die auf dem Clavier lehrende Caecilia, welche guten Unterricht ertheilet''
*1724: ''Requiem für Kaiser Karl VI. und Messe zu Ehren der Hl. Scholastika''
Further reading
* Christoph Schmider: ''Franz Anton Maichelbeck (1702–1750) und die Kirchenmusik in Freiburg''. I: ''Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv''. 124. year 2004, .
* Manfred Schuler, Christoph Schmider: ''Der Freiburger Münsterorganist Franz Anton Maichelbeck (1702–1750) und sein Requiem für Kaiser Karl VI.''
''Musik am Freiburger Münster''
on WorldCat In Christoph Schmider (publisher): ''Musik am Freiburger Münster''. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2002, ,
External links
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References
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German classical organists
Sacred music composers
German Baroque composers
Organists and composers in the South German tradition
1702 births
1750 deaths
People from Konstanz
German male classical organists