Austrian composer
Anton M. Storch , Anton M. Storch, for/also: Anton Michael Storch or Anton Maria Storch or Anton Monachus Storch or Anton Max Storch or Anton Martin Storch,[ 1] (23 December 1813 – 31 December 1887) was an Austrian composer and choral director.
Life
Born in Vienna , Storch received lessons from the music teacher Michael Eckel and studied at the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music (today University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna ).[ 1]
Storch was choir director of the Wiener Männergesang-Verein , the Linzer Singakademie [de ] and the Niederösterreichischer Sängerbund, as well as orchestra director at the Theater an der Wien and the Theater in der Josefstadt .[ 1]
His son Anton Storch (25 December 1843 in Vienna – 19 April 1873 idem) followed in his father's footsteps as Kapellmeister and composer.[ 3]
M. Storch died in Vienna at the age of 74. His Ehrengrab (grave of honour) is located on the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 0, row 1, number 11).[ 4]
References
^ a b c Storch, Familie . In musiklexikon.ac.at , 20 August 2013, retrieved on 23 February 2020.
^ Heindl: Storch Anton M(ichael). In Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL) , volume 13, p. 324.
^ Hedwig Abraham: Anton Storch . In viennatouristguide.at , retrieved 25 November 2013.
Further reading
Constantin von Wurzbach : Storch, A. M. . In Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 39th part, Kaisetrlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1879, pp. 184–192 Online 39 Biographisches Lexikon des Kaisertums Österreich .
Karl Weiß (1893), "Storch, A. M. ", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 36, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 436–437
Ch(ristian) Heindl: "Storch Anton M(ichael) ". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 13, Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 324.* Rudolf Flotzinger : Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Volume 5. publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
External links
International National Artists People Other