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Andreas Rauch
12+ albums
austrian17th century
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Andreas Rauch (born around 1592 in Pottendorf (Lower Austria); died May 23, 1656 in Ödenburg) was an Austrian composer and organist of the early Baroque period. At the age of 18, Andreas Rauch was appointed organist of the evangelical estates of Lower Austria. He then worked as an organist and composer at the Evangelical Church in Hernals (now Vienna ). From 1625 to 1627 he was organist in Inzersdorf , the second evangelical center in the vicinity of Vienna, then back in his home town of Pottendorf. To the Hungarian city of Ödenburg, where he had to emigrate in 1629 because of the Reformation patent issued on October 10, 1625, which stipulates the expulsion of all non-Catholics from Vienna, he got a job at the Michaelskirche in 1630 and married soon afterwards. After the death of his first wife, he married into a wealthy bourgeois family in 1639, which gave him civil rights. He worked at the Michaelskirche until the end of his life. Andreas Rauch composed both vocal and instrumental music. Several of his collections document his musical work, including 15 psalms of David, which are considered lost, 12 sacred compositions ("Missa, Vespera et alii sacri concentus concertati"), 13 motets with up to twelve voices. While he was dedicating the “Concentus votivus” to Ferdinand II , Rauch composed a collection of representative music under the title “Currus triumphalis musicus” for 8–12 voices, large instrumental line-up and 2 Bc (Vienna, 1648) on the occasion of the Peace of West
