Franz Xaver Haberl

Franz Xaver Haberl ( born April 12, 1840 in Oberellenbach (now Mallersdorf- Pfaff mountain ); † September 5, 1910 in Regensburg ) was a German church musician and musicologist.

Haberl was born the son of a teacher in Oberellenbach ( Lower Bavaria ). He attended the Episcopal junior seminary in Passau, then studied theology in Munich and received there on 12 August 1862, the ordination.

During this time, Haberl also completed the publication of the fourth volume of the Musica Divina his recently deceased teacher, Carl Proske.

After working as a music prefect at the seminary in Passau, he devoted himself from 1867 to 1870 as organist of the church of Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome in the local archives and libraries musicological studies.

From 1871 to 1882 he served as Director of Music and inspector of Dompräbende in Regensburg in 1874, where he founded the first Catholic church music school, which flourished rapidly under his leadership. 1879 he also founded a Palestrina Club.

During the tenure Haberls appeared as Director of Music under his editorial revisions of the chorale books with close reference to the Editio Medicean of 1614. Papal privilege for printing this edition for printing Pustet 1900 was not renewed because now the research of the Benedictines of Solesmes, the versions the Editio Medicae had proven to be not authentic. Pope Pius X appointed a commission to restore the original readings of the choral chants, the Editio Vaticana, the Editio Medicean then replaced in 1904.

Since 1876, he was " for the good of the Church Music School " Cäcilien the calendar out, he advanced to the 1886 Church Music Yearbook.

After an extended period of study in Rome, who focused primarily on the preparation of the complete edition of the works of Palestrina, he took over management in 1885 and teaching of the School of Church Music in Regensburg. The complete edition of the works of Palestrina, begun in 1862 it was his responsibility of belt 10 until their completion with Volume 33 in 1894 ( the fourth supplementary volume appeared in 1907). Since 1894 he had also taken over a part of the complete edition of the works of Orlando di Lasso ( 21 volumes, 1894-1927 ).

Since 1889 he edited, founded by Franz Xaver Witt church music magazine Musica sacra and since 1899 also the flying leaves for Catholic church music (later Cäcilienverein organ ).

The friend of Liszt and Lorenzo perosis in 1879 appointed honorary canon of the Cathedral of Palestrina and 1899 elected President of the General German Cäcilienverein. The University of Würzburg in 1889 awarded him an honorary theological doctorate. In 1908 he received the rank of papal prelate house.

Works & Editions

  • Master choralis. In theory, hands-on instruction to Gregorian church singing according to the principles of the Enchiridion chorale and Organum by JG Mette director for clergy, organists, seminars and Cantoren, edited by FX Haberl. Pustet, Regensburg in 1864 ( later to Ital., Frz., Engl, Span., Pol. Ung and translated. )
  • Organum comitans ad Graduale Romanum, quod sub ​​auspiciis Sanctissimi Domini nostri Pii. PP. IX. curavit Sacrorum Rituum congregatio. Proper et Commune Sanctorum necnon festa per aliquibus locis transposita et Harmonice ornata. Pustet, Regensburg 1875 ( with Joseph Hanisch )
  • Angelo Bertalotti 's fifty two-part Solfeggien. Pustet, Regensburg 1881
  • William du Fay. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1885 ( = Blocks of Music History, 1 )
  • Repertory Musicae Sacrae ex auctoribus saeculi XVI. et XVII. ( from 1886, Supplement to the Church Music Yearbook, with Neuausg older music works. masses, motets, Falsibordoni )
  • Musica Divina, sive thesaurus Concentuum selectissimorum omni cultui divino totius anni, juxta ritum Sanctae Ecclesiae Catholicae inserventium ( started by Carl Proske ), Annus secundus, 4 volumes, Pustet, Regensburg 1886 ( with Joseph Schrems )
  • The Roman " Schola Cantorum " and the papal chapel choir until the mid-16th century. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1888 ( = Blocks of Music History, 3), previously in: quarterly journal of Musicology 3 (1887 ), pp. 189-296
  • Officium hebdomadae sanctae et octavae Paschae / The celebration of the holy Char and Easter week. Latin and German for prayer and song. Pustet, Regensburg 1887
  • Bibliographic and thematic music catalog of papal Kapellarchives in the Vatican at Rome. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1888 ( = building blocks of music history, 2)
  • Psalterium vespertinum. Psalmi ad vesperas et Completorium by totius anni Cursum, mediationum et finalium initiis digestis ad majorem psallentium commoditatem concinnati. Pustet, Regensburg 1888
  • Collectio Musices Organicae ex operibus Hieronymi Frescobaldi. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1889
  • Organum comitans ad Vesperale Romanum, quod curavit sub auspiciis Sanctissimi Domini nostri Pii PP. IX. Sacrorum Rituum congregatio. Pustet, Regensburg 1877 ( with Joseph Hanisch )
  • Small Gradual and Missal. A prayer and contemplation book for church singers and educated laymen. Pustet, Regensburg 1892
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