Reisinger, Franz 03/23/1838 - 10/18/1905

Traveler Franz Ser., composer and pastor. * Attersee (Upper Austria), 23. 3. 1838; † Raab (Upper Austria), 18. 10. 1905. Son of the teacher and organist Martin R.; studied at the episcopal seminary in Linz, ordained priest in 1862. He then worked as cooperator or parish provisional in a number of parishes in Upper Austria, among others 1872-74 in Hofkirchen a. d. Trattnach, 1876-78, then again from 1879 in Tragwein (1885 honorary citizen). From 1885 R. was parson of St Willibald, from 1897 until his death parson of Raab. About his musical. Nothing is known about his musical education, but he created more than 300 works of music, some of them published in print. The main focus of his work is in the field of church music, where he was a moderate cäcilian. In terms of instrumentation and degree of difficulty, he took into account the possibilities of rural church choirs. R. was the last to cultivate the type of hunter's mass (G major, op. 16, 1863/64), which had been considered extinct since the middle of the 18th century, and in 1873 he founded the still existing Ges. der Musikfreunde in Hofkirchen, for which he also created a number of surviving arrangements for brass music.