Ett, Caspar 01/05/1788 - 05/16/1847

Caspar Ett (1788-1847) was a German church musician and composer. When he was nine years old he became a choirboy in the seminary of the Benedictine monks of Andechs, Bavaria. After three years of study in voice, organ and figured bass he was accepted into the Benedictine Seminarium Gregorianum in Munich. In his musical creativity he is known as the main representative of the first period of the Catholic church music restoration of the nineteenth century. He worked hard to revive older church vocal music and himself wrote a series of masses, motets, stabats and requiems in the same spirit.