Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler

Synopsis

German composer, organ designer, and teacher

• Born in Wurzburg, Germany on June 15 1749
• Son of a instrument maker.
• 1763 enrolled in humnanistic studies at Wurzburg University
• 1770 became almoner at the Mannheim court of Carl Theodor
• 1773 studied briefly with Padre Marini in Bologna, then went to Padua and studied theology
• 1775 went back to Mannheim and became spiritual counsellor and second Kapellmeister
• He founded the Mannheimer Tonschule
• 1780 won an approbation for his theory of harmony from the Academie Royale des Sciences
• 1784 became first Kapellmeister in Munich
• 1786 went to Stockhom as music director and teacher to the crown prince
• 1792 he went to Gibraltar, Cadiz, Tangier to search for ancient traditions of modal singing
• 1793 went back to Stockholm till 1799
• Traveled to Copenhagen, Berlin, Prague and Vienna from 1799-1805
• 1807 court appointment at Darmstadt
• Final project was to build a massive organ called the Triorganon. It was to have 13 manuals divided between three consoles. This remained unfinished
• Died in Darmstadt on May 6, 1814

Most famous for his treatises on Harmony, and how to teach harmony to amateurs and professionals. He used Roman numeral analysis. He wrote chorale settings that are mainly diatonic but a group has many chromaticisms. He wrote a Fugue and 32 preludes for the organ.

For details, see the Wikipedia article on Abbe Georg Joseph Vogler.

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