Franz Xaver Murschhauser

Franz Xaver (Anton) Murschhauser ( baptized July 1, 1663 in Saverne, † January 6, 1738 in Munich) was a German organist and composer.

1678 he completed his high school studies at the Jesuit School Munich ( today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ) from.

He received his musical training in Munich as a student of Johann Caspar von Kerll and was then from 1691 to his death organist of the Frauenkirche in Munich.

He composed works for organ, ten Psalms ( five of them a cappella ) and Laudate. The " Octi - plutonium Organicum novum " ( 1696 ) contains trapped by prelude and finale versettes cycles in the eight church modes, alternatively to play psalms and Magnificat, as in the Catholic southern German church music practice time common. These cycles of variations " super Cantilenam 'Last UNSS that Kindelein weigh ' Variationes by imitationem Cuculi " come at Christmas time, including, ie, with constant " cuckoo ". The " Prototypon longo - breve " was released in two parts, 1703 and 1707 includes pre-and sequels, which are useful in polyphonic music.

Compositions

  • Octi - plutonium novum Organicum, octo tonis ecclesiasticis, ad Psalmos, & magnificat, Augsburg 1696
  • Vespertinus latriae et hyperduliae cultus, Ulm 1700
  • Prototypon longo - breve Organicum, Nuremberg 1703

Theoretical works

  • Fundamentalische short and comfortable hand line to both the figural as Choral Music, Munich 1707
  • Academia musico - poetica bipartita, or High school musica metallic composition, Nuremberg 1721
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