Eduard Rottmanner (1809-1843) was a German composer and great-nephew of the famous Bavarian agricultural reformer Simon Rottmanner. He started composing at the age of eight and was considered in the Romantic period the most hopeful music talent of Munich and all Bavaria. He studied logic, history, physics and statistics, before dedicating himself completely to music and studying with Kaspar Ett (1788 – 1847).



At first he became an organist and tenor in the choir of St. Michael at the Bürgersaal in Munich. Then he became the cathedral kapellmeister and director of the music club in Speyer.


As a composer he wrote thirteen sonatas, nineteen variations, three fantasies, ninety-two recital pieces, dances and marches, twenty-three choral pieces, three melodramas, four overtures and an opera, "Hermann der Befreier" ("Hermann the Liberator"). His religious compositions include fourteen Latin and eight German masses, two requiems, fifteen proprium hymns, seventeen antiphons and hymns, seven litanies, two vespers, two te deums, a resurrection chorus and and a Mount of Olives hymn.