Paul Hofhaimer
Paul Hofhaimer came from a family of organists in Radstadt and was trained into a thoroughly accomplished organ expert at the court of Frederick III. Active at the Innsbruck court from about 1487, he was engaged in 1490 by Maximilian I as “chief organist” (obrigster Organist). In this capacity Hofhaimer had to accompany the emperor on all his important journeys, which quickly spread his fame internationally. As a soloist endowed with privileges, he formed part of Maximilian’s self-fashioning as a ruler. Depictions of him on a chariot in the Triumphal Procession and on a woodcut by Hans Weiditz attest to this (Fig. Emperor Maximilian’s Chapel; Fig. Triumphal Procession, Regal).[32] Emperor Maximilian also tried his own hand at playing the organ, thereby joining a long line of Habsburg rulers at the keyboard.[33]
In 1515 Hofhaimer was knighted. After Maximilian’s death he moved to Salzburg as cathedral organist. There, too, he served primarily as chamber organist to his sovereign, Cardinal Matthäus Lang. His colleagues Nicolaus Lescalier and, from 1527, the Bohemian-born Gregor Peschin had to take on the ordinary services in the cathedral. Hofhaimer himself could be admired at the cathedral organ only in the cardinal’s presence and on the highest feast days.[34]
[32] Moser 1929, 26 f.; Dammann 1974, 252, 259, 274 ff.; Michel/Sternath 2012, 247 f.
[1] This is exemplified by the standard work of Apel 1967, whose geographical arrangement is fixed on the German-speaking area and accordingly subsumes all Austrian representatives of keyboard music under the rubric “South German.”
[2] Praetorius 1619, 85.
[3] Edler 1997, 12.
[4] Salmen 1978, 22.
[5] Klotz 1986, 7–123; Edler 1997, 22. Organ building and the appointment of organists are well documented, e.g. in Bozen (E. Bozen).
[7] Klotz 1986, 68 f.
[8] Klotz 1986, 60.
[9] Of the great Seckau organ of the late fifteenth century, only the case survives; Federhofer 1951, 25.
[10] Bowles 1987, 183.
[11] Oberhuber 1978, 147 f.
[12] Forer 1973, 60, 172 und 196.
[13] One might mention here, among others, the organ at Seckau Abbey, demolished only in 1905; Flotzinger 1980, 23.
[14] Stenzl/Hintermaier/Walterskirchen 2005, 305.
[15] Quoika 1953, 16.
[16] Quoika 1953, 11.
[17] Compiled after Flotzinger/Gruber 1995, 89 f.; Quoika 1953; Eberstaller 1955; Forer 1973, 17–35, and Frieberger 1984, 26–29.
[18] Fiala 2013, 136 f.
[19] Eberstaller 1955, 4.
[20] Frieberger 1984, 27 f.
[21] Eberstaller 1955, 11–15. See also » E. Bozen.
[22] Flotzinger/Gruber 1995, 90.
[23] Salmen 1978, 12–26.
[24] Salmen 1978, 15–16.
[25] Meyer 2001, 78.
[26] Meyer 2001, 78.
[27] Quoika 1953, 14.
[29] Salmen 1978, 23.
[31] Flotzinger/Gruber 1995, 198.
[32] Moser 1929, 26 f.; Dammann 1974, 252, 259, 274 ff.; Michel/Sternath 2012, 247 f.
[34] Stenzl/Hintermaier/Walterskirchen 2005, 91, 94.
[35] Pacik 1978, 120–143.
[36] Quoika 1953, 18.
[37] Körndle 2003, 24–30.
[38] Mielke 1993, Bd. 1, 29–67.
[39] Körndle 2001, 225–256.
[40] Schuler 2000, 1191.
[41] Körndle 2001, 228–240; Mielke 1993, vol. 1, 42–55.
[42] Frieberger 1984, 26.