Peter Griesbacher

Peter Griesbach ( born March 25, 1864 in Egglham; † January 28, 1933 in Regensburg ) was a German composer, organist and bell experts.

Life

Griesbach in Passau studied theology and was ordained a priest in 1886. From 1894 to 1895 he was a music prefect at the Studienseminar St. Emmeram in Regensburg. His reputation as a composer of church music made ​​him 1911 lecturer at the School of Church Music in Regensburg, where he taught counterpoint, morphology and stylistics. Around the same time he was appointed vicar and then to the canon of the collegiate church of St. John in Regensburg. 1930 elected him the pin section dean, and Carl Thiel was appointed as successor to Charles Weinberger, who had in the meantime been represented by Peter Griesbach provisionally, director of the School of Church Music. Griesbach died in January 1933 to gastrointestinal cancer.

Work

Griesbacher composed predominantly Catholic church music. Based on the a cappella ideal of Cecilianism he came over organ accompanied works to a " internalized monumental style " with the involvement of the orchestra, the instrumentation not usually come from him. He also tried the stringent Cäcilianerstil with late- romantic harmonies to link, so it was just his late works are characterized by a rather complex tonal language. With Griesbacher the Catholic church music was at the junction of the 19th and 20th centuries the connection to contemporary developments. He created about 250 works, including 49 trade fairs.

• Missa Iam sol recedit op 1
• Missa Mater admirabilis op 86
• Missa in honorem Sancti Gregorii (II vocum inaequalium com. Organo) Op 90
• Missa Stella Maris, Op 141
• Missa Americana, Op 235