Benedikt Geisler

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Benedikt Geisler was born in Dettelbach in 1696 and baptized Caspar. From 1717 he was enrolled at the Würzburg University. In the same year Wolfgang Händler became court organist, a native of Nuremberg and a student of Pachelbel, and later also Kapellmeister. He comes into question as Geisler’s teacher, because his solid compositions and his organ playing speak for this excellent organ and composition teacher. In 1720 Geisler entered the Augustinian canons of Triefenstein, was given the monastery name Benedikt and was ordained a priest four years later. The quality and scope of Geisler’s compositions, which he created from 1738 to 1753, speak for an enthusiastic monastery and musician life: nine bulky volumes of church musical works, printed in Bamberg and Augsburg, show his ability and his imagination. A consecration service in the converted Burkardus crypt in Homburg in 1741, musically embellished by the Triefenstein conventuals, may have been a pleasant change. However, this is contradicted by the fact that Geisler fled three times from the monastery life that he had promised himself. His first escape took him to France as early as 1727. He fled a second time in 1745 to the Nuremberg and Fürth area, where he even renounced his denomination. A prison sentence on return was the result. He then escaped a third time in 1748, breaking open doors and locks, taking three silver spoons with him and forging a travel document. He was quickly caught and brought back, and he declare

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