Franz Xaver Murschhauser

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Franz Xaver Murschhauser (1 July 1663 – 6 January 1738) was a German composer and theorist. He was born in Saverne, Alsace, but he is first mentioned as a singer and instrumentalist at St Peter’s School in Munich, in 1676. He studied music with the Kantor, Siegmund Auer and, from 1683 to his death in 1693, Johann Caspar Kerll. He was appointed music director of the Munich Frauenkirche in 1691, where he remained until his death. He published two collections of organ music in the tradition of the South German school, intended for use with the Catholic liturgy; these consist of toccatas, fantasies and fugues written using the psalm tones and plainchant melodies. The first collection is entitled Octi-tonium novum organicum, octo tonis ecclesiasticis, ad Psalmos, & magnificat(Augsburg, 1696), and contains eighty-nine pieces]. The second collection is in two parts of 34 pieces each, entitled Prototypon longo-breve organicum; (part I, Nuremberg, 1703; part II, Nuremberg, 1707). Both may be found in Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Bayern XXX, Jg.xviii (1917). There are other keyboard works in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, and the Berlin Singakademie. A surviving accompanied vocal work, Vespertinus latriae et hyperduliae cultus (Ulm, 1700), contains ten psalms and one laudate. He also published two works on the subject of music theory, designed for instruction in the art of composition: Fundamentalische kurz- und bequeme Handleitung sowohl zur Figural als Choral Musi

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Kee, Piet: Pachelbel, Walther and J.S. Bach On the Weingarten Basilica Organ

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Prototypon Longo-Breve Organicum

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Klassische Weihnachten - 100 Tracks

Christmas Concert (Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht)

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Gradus ad Parnassum: The Art of South German Organ Music

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Weihnachtssingen der Thomaner (Die schönsten Advents- Und Weihnachtslieder)

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A Baroque Christmas

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Gamla uppländska orglar

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German Organ Music, Vol. 2

German Organ Music Vol. 2

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Piet Kee at Weingarten

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A Classical Christmas - 100 Tracks

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