Description: | b. Wels (Upper Austria), Aug. 5, 1918, d. Salzburg, Jan. 16, 1989.
Composer, organist and choir master, teacher (later professor) at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz.
Received the Austrian State Prize for Music, 1967; honorary doctorate from the Pontificio instituto di musica sacra in Rome, 1986.
Works
Masses, oratorio, choral works, organ pieces, piano and chamber music, orchestral works, writings.
Literature
M. Tunger, Josef Friedrich Doppelbauer Leben und Werk, 1994.
In the Netherlands this chorale is sung to the text of "Daar komt een schip geladen" and it is part of the Advent cycle; 3rd advent. |