Karl Constanz (1747-1817) - Quem vidistis pastores (c.1770)
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Composer: Karl Constanz (1747-1817)
Work: Offertorium de Nativitate Domini 'Quem vidistis pastores' (c.1770)
Performers: Chor und Orchester der Akademie St. Blаsius; Kаrlhеinz Siеssl (conductor)
Drawing: Georg Braun (1541-1622) & Franz Hogenberg (1539-1590) - Brixia
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Drawing: Johann Lorenz Haid (1702-1750) - The Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels, and God the Father in the Sky (mid-18th century)
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Karl (Carl) Constanz
(Klausen, 4 November 1747 - Brixen, 13 December 1817)
Austrian organist and composer. He was the son of Josef Constanz (?-1788), the organist at the Pfarrkirche St. Michael in Brixen. His early years remain unknown but he probably received music lessons from his father. In 1770, and after he was ordained a priest, he was settled in Salzburg for the next two years to enhace his musical skills playing the organ. So far it has not been possible to clarify with whom Constanz took lessons in Salzburg but he probably was closely related to Michael Haydn and the Mozarts. After his return to Brixen in 1772, he was awarded the benefit “ad omnes sanctos” and was promoted to court musician. In 1775 he succeeded the Brixen court organist Franz Hopfgartner (1714-1775) and he held this post at the Metropolitan Church of Tyrol until his death. During his long career as organist, he experienced the secularization of the Prince-Bishopric of Brixen and the associated transformation of the Prince-Bishop's court music into Brixen Cathedral Music. As a composer of church music, he achieved nationwide fame. His most widespread work, the Ave Maria in Es-dur, has survived in the music archives of Stams, Hall, Schwaz, Feldkirch and Einsiedeln. He also wrote several masses, offertories, hymns, psalms and motets, the most of them only preserved in manuscript. His brother Josef Anton Constanz (1753-?) was also organist and composer. #ClassicalMusic