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Anton Heiller
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Anton Heiller (September 15, 1923 — March 25, 1979) was an Austrian organist, harpsichordist, composer, and conductor. Heiller was born at Vienna. After undergoing his initial church music training with Wilhelm Mück — organist at the Stephansdom (St. Stephen's Cathedral) — he combined work as répétiteur and choirmaster at the Vienna Volksoper, with further study at the Vienna Music Academy under Bruno Seidlhofer (piano, organ, harpsichord) and Friedrich Reidinger (music theory and composition). Meanwhile he carried out his military service, mostly as a medical aide. Graduating from the Academy in 1945, he became in the same year an organ teacher at that institution. From 1957 he held the title of professor. Heiller's career after World War II is an uninterrupted list of concerts, lectures, records, jury service at contests, and professional honors. In 1952 he won the International Organ Competition in Haarlem, The Netherlands, and he toured the United States as well as Europe, his organ recitals at Harvard (on the then-new C.B. Fisk instrument at Memorial Church) — available on a boxed 4-CD set compact discs — having been particularly appreciated. A few years before the first of them, he had released an astonishing set of recordings for Vanguard of many of the larger Bach pieces; the instrument was a majestic Marcussen in Sweden. Successive Austrian governments bestowed on Heiller every artistic award in their power, including the Vienna Culture Prize (1963), the Vienna Cr
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Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244: 1. Chorus: Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen
1752Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244: 3. Chorale: Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen
1523Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244: 6. Recitative (Evangelist): Da nun Jesus war zu Bethanien
1454Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244: 7. Chorus: Wozu dienet dieser Unrath
1375Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244: 8. Recitative (Evangelist): Da das Jesus merkete
1356Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244: 2. Recitative (Evangelist, Jesus): Da Jesus diese Rede vollendet hatte
1357Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244: 12. Aria (Soprano): Blute nur, du liebes Herz
1308Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244: 10. Aria (Alto): Buß und Reu
1279Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244: 9. Recitative (Alto): Du lieber Heiland du
12710Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244: 18. Recitative (Soprano): Wiewohl mein Herz in Tränen schwimmt
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