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The Life and Legacy of Franz Xaver Hauser - A Forgotten Leader in the Nineteenth-Century Bach Movement (Hardcover)
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The Life and Legacy of Franz Xaver Hauser - A Forgotten Leader in the Nineteenth-Century Bach Movement (Hardcover)
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Franz Xaver Hauser (1794-1870), born near Prague in Czechoslovakia,
combined his career of singing and teaching with a consuming
interest in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Hauser was a
colleague of Felix Mendelssohn, Moritz Hauptmann, Robert Schumann,
Jenny Lind, and Otto Jahn; author of a text on vocal pedagogy that
stayed in print for more than a century; founder of the Munich
Tonal Academy, which is still in existence; and the primary private
contributor to the complete edition of Bach's works. In this
remarkable biography, Dale A. Jorgenson discloses the existence of
the great legacy left by Hauser. Although his achievements were
many, Hauser's greatest contribution was his determined effort to
catalogue all the known works of J. S. Bach, collect and share all
the original manuscripts and authentic copies of Bach's work, and
make his unpublished catalogue, the manuscripts, and his
professional guidance available to the Bach Society, which was
founded in Leipzig in 1850. This activity provided a meaningful
dimension to Hauser's life apart from his stage career. He made a
wide circle of significant friends who loved Bach's music or who
were themselves leaders in literature and the arts--Ludwig Tieck,
Schumann, the Grimm Brothers, and many others. This remarkable man
had slipped into obscurity. Jorgenson's biography will enhance
Hauser's reputation and remind the world of his achievements.
Jorgenson's book also is an invaluable asset to scholars of
nineteenth-century music, culture, and the arts, particularly to
those who share Hauser's enduring interest in Bach.
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