PT Journal
AU Vesela, I
TI P. Anselm Hackenwalder (1730-1772) - Augustinian and Regenschori at St. Thomas in Brno and His Svitavy Roots
SO Musicologica Olomucensia
PY 2022
BP 88
EP 119
VL 34
IS 2
DI 10.5507/mo.2022.014
DE Moravia; Brno; Svitavy; 18th century; Augustinians; music collections; Loreto litanies; liturgical music; choir directors; cantors; Anselm Hackenwalder; Wenzel Joseph Hackenwalder; Joseph Puschmann; Pavel Marek; Carlo Zuccari
AB The study deals with a hitherto little-known personality who shaped Brno musical life in the 1750s and 1760s. Wenzel Joseph Hackenwalder grew up in the environment of a cantorial family active in Svitavy from the beginning of the 18th century, where he probably received his basic musical education. He received further general and musical education from the Piarists in Litomysl and the Jesuits in Olomouc. After joining the Augustinian Order of Eremites in Brno and being ordained a priest (1755), he became the director of the choir as P. Anselm, a position he held for the next 17 years until his untimely death. The paper summarises previously unpublished facts about Hackenwalder's origins and family background. It also discusses his extensive acquisition activities for the music collection of the St. Thomas' Convent Choir, for which he himself acquired many copies of works by composers known and performed at the time, as well as a number of anonymous works. In accordance with the specific form of devotion of the Brno Augustinians, focused on reverence for the image of St. Mary and St. Thomas, these are mainly musical settings of the Loreto litanies. Hackenwalder's personal music collection includes a unique copy of a violin concerto by Carlo Zuccari, made in 1748.
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