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Placidus Metsch
18th centurygerman
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Placidus Metsch (1700–1778) was a Bavarian Benedictine monk and organist whose musical profile is closely tied to monastic life at Rott am Inn. Born in Wessobrunn, he entered the Rott community in 1723 and is described in the principal reference notices as serving there as an organist. His surviving footprint is anchored above all in printed organ music issued in mid-18th-century Nuremberg, including the collection Litigiosa digitorum unio (1759), which presents two preludes and fugues and survives in a digitised scan from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Early lexicon tradition also records a further publication, Organoedus Ecclesiastico-aulicus… (Nuremberg, 1764). In modern performance life, Metsch’s organ works have been taken up by specialist early-music labels, including a dedicated Cornetto release (COR10016) that places his music alongside the wider South-German and Austrian monastic organ tradition. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.