Robert Führer (1807-1861) - Kurze Festmesse in B (1853)

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Composer: Robert Führer (1807-1861)
Work: Kurze Festmesse in B für 4 Singstimmen, 2 Violinen Viola n. oblig. 2 Trompeten u. Pauken Contrabass u. Orgel (1853)
Software: Sibelius + Instruments samples
World Premiere: Yes (instrumental version)
Sheet music (pdf): https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/b/b9/Mh-FFestB-Partitur.pdf
Sheet music (xml): https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/f/f7/Mh-FFestB-Partitur.mxl

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Robert (Jan Nepomuk) Führer
(Prague, 2 June 1807 - Vienna, 28 November 1861)

Bohemian composer and organist. While still a chorister at Prague Cathedral he was taught by Jan August Vitásek. From 1823 he was assistant organist at the cathedral and in 1826 became second organist; after Vitásek’s death in 1839 he succeeded him, giving up his organ post at the Strahov Monastery, which he had held since 1829. In 1830 he became one of the first teachers at the Prague Organ School, but his irregular life caused his dismissal in 1845. He then settled in Salzburg as an organist and theatre conductor (1846-49) and lived briefly in Munich (1849), Braunau am Inn (1851), Gmunden (1853-55) and other German and Austrian towns. He also toured Austria and Hungary with the violinist Gärtner and competed with Bruckner at the Mozart celebrations in Salzburg in 1856. He stayed longer in Aspach and Ried, where he wrote many compositions. After his imprisonment in Ried and Garsten (1859-60) he went to Vienna, where he lived for the rest of his life in penury. Führer was a prolific composer and wrote over 400 works, mostly sacred.