Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Nikolaus Betscher! 🎺🍷
Composer: Nikolaus Betscher (1745-1811)
Work: Missa brevis g-moll (1774)
Performers: Cornеlia Götz (soprano); Hаns-Jürgеn Schöpflіn (tenor); Ruth Sаndhoff (alto);
Egbеrt Junghаnns (bass); Camerata Vocalis Der Universität Tübingеn;
Alexаnder Sumskі (1933-2022, conductor)
Missa brevis g-moll (1774)
1. Kyrie 0:00
2. Gloria 2:19
3. Credo 14:19
4. Sanctus 19:55
5. Benedictus 21:32
6. Agnus Dei 24:12
Drawing: Jacob Alt (1789-1872) - A view of Grinzing with Kahlenberg (1815)
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Nikolaus [Leonardus Wolfgangus] Betscher
(Berkheim, 31 October 1745 - Rot an der Rot, 18 November 1811)
German composer and priest. He was born the only son of the wealthy farmer Matthias Betscher and his wife Salome Schillingerin on the Sankt Johann Baptist farm in Berkheim in the lower Iller Valley and was christened Leonardus Wolfgangus on November 1st. As a child, he was admitted to the Rot an der Rot monastery school and received his initial training there. On November 11, 1765, he took his religious vows there and assumed the name of the monastery, Nicholas. On September 23, 1769 he was ordained a priest. Over the next ten years, he held several monastic offices and was pastor in Haslach from 1779 to 1781. In 1781 he is documented as a subprior, in 1782 as a prior, until he was given a pastorate in Haisterkirch again in 1785. After the death of his predecessor, he was elected abbot of the Reichsabtei Rot on November 3, 1789, and was ceremonially inaugurated. By 1795 he had become one of the leading prelates of the Schwabian region. At the secularization of the monastery in 1803, he was allowed to remain in residence there until his death. A prolific composer, he wrote over 175 works, almost all sacred music. His musical language and scheme is the simple polyphony and melodic similar to his friend from nearby Salzburg, Michael Haydn.
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