Hartmann von An der Lan-Hochbrunn


Hartmann von An der Lan-Hochbrunn was an Austrian Catholic priest, composer, organist, and conductor.

Life

He was born Paul Eugen Josef von An der Lan-Hochbrunn in Salorno, County of Tyrol, descended from an ancient noble Tirolean family. His father was a railway officer in Salorno. He completed his first musical studies at the Academy of Bolzano. In 1880, he joined the Order of Friars Minor at the age of sixteen at their novitiate in Salzburg, where he received his religious name of Hartmann. He was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1886 in Brixen. After serving as organist and choir director in Lienz and Reutte, he then studied in Innsbruck with Josef Pembauer.
In 1893 Lan-Hochbrunn was sent to the Holy Land, where he became organist at the Monastery of Saint Saviour and director of the Philharmonic Orchestra in Jerusalem, and from 1894 organist at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre there.
In 1895, Lan-Hochbrunn went to Rome, where he worked as organist at the Franciscan Basilica of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli on the Capitoline Hill and from 1901 as director of the conservatory on the Piazza Santa Chiara. In the same year, he gave a concert tour to Saint Petersburg for the world premiere of his oratorio San Francesco. In addition to other honors he was member of the Roman circle of the 24 Immortali.
From 1906 till his death in 1914, Lan-Hochbrunn lived at the Franciscan Monastery of St. Anna im Lehel near Munich – with a brief interruption in 1906/07, during which he stayed in New York City.

Works

Lan-Hochbrunn wrote mainly sacred works. The most important are:San Pietro, Milan 1900 San Francesco, Milan and St. Petersburg 1901Das letzte Abendmahl, Milan 1904, Würzburg 1905Der Tod des Herrn, Milan und Amberg 1906Die sieben letzten Worte Christi am Kreuze, Brooklyn/New York 1908 Te Deum, Milan and Muenchen 1913.Liturg. Choral-Leitmotiv-Mass, Augsburg - Wien 1909
In addition, there are an organ sonatas and piano pieces.
Lan-Hochbrunn is also the author of the following documents:Das wunderthätige Jesukind von Aracöli in Rom, known as "Santo Bambino", Munich 1897P. Peter Singer. Ein Gedenkblatt zum hundertsten Geburtstage des Künstlers, zugleich ein Beitrag zur Musikgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts, Innsbruck 1910