Here is the story about Quirin Anderl for the people of Cologne, it is quite nice. As you can see at the bottom right of the last page of the second horn part, Quirin Anderl was once a pupil of Carl Leibl, the choirmaster at the cathedral in Cologne. As Carl Leibl was the teacher, and older than Anderl, his music would normally stem from an earlier time and should be worth investigating. The music of both Leibl and Anderl is almost completely forgotten but it is possible to find some of it if you look hard enough on the internet. Almost nothing at all is known of Quirin Anderl. He is associated with Mühldorf in Bavaria and may have spent some time in Munich because he arranged a Stabat Mater by a Munich court composer named Benelli for 5 strings including contrabass. Obviously, the title page and the one page of the horn part show ample indications that the manuscript is an autograph. In fact there are numerous works by Anderl entrusted to my custodianship, including 5 autograph masses ... the biggest collection of Quirin Anderl autographs in the world. They are in safe hands over on the old continent, so Buttons doesnt want anyone over here looking around for them in the night with a flashlight. The note by Anderl about being the pupil of Carl Leibl is perhaps the only biographical information we have on Anderl, apart from some books showing his salary in Mühldorf. Carl Leibl was, of course, the father of the famous painter, Wilhelm Leibl. The fact that Quirin Anderl was for some time in Cologne and Munich and the fact that Wilhelm Leibl was for quite a lot of time in Munich and in the Bavarian countryside, heightens the possibility that Quirin Anderl and Wilhelm Leibl KNEW EACH OTHER. It is often very difficult to find information on these people without visiting an actual library. The costume worn by the youngest of the Three Women in Church, Leibls central work, is wearing a costume more typical of the Bavarian Highlands than anywhere else, but I may be wrong, Leibl wrote about the painting in a letter to his sister. The older gentleman depicted here is Carl Leibl, the father, and the younger man is Wilhelm Leibl, the son. No image is available from Quirin Anderl. Sometimes it actually helps to further a cause by warming up the discussion with a little controversy. As we can see from Wilhelm Leibl who was born in Cologne, the Bavarian Highlands, Austria and Tyrol do not have a monopoly on the letter L as an ending. Nor do the Bavarian Highlands have a monopoly on the first name of Quirin because it is not unusual in France. But, just for the sake of argument, just for the sake of arguing, just for the sake of heating up the debate, I would contend that the christian name of Quirin is quite rare in Bavaria and that it stems from the diocese including St. Quirin of TEGERNSEE and that Quirin Anderl may very well have been born near Tegernsee in the Bavarian Highlands. As an additional little connection between all of this and the horn, I would like to draw your attention to Clemens August of Bavaria who was Archbishop of Cologne. He is depicted as a hunting horn player in the famous painting at Schloss Lustheim near Munich. The two horn players in blue on the right are the Gansbeck brothers, two of the earliest known horn players in the entire world. The horn player in red, the third man from the right, is Clemens August of Bavaria, later, Archbishop of Cologne. There is a little old verse from Cologne that goes like this: Unter Clemens August blau und weiß, Lebt man wie in Paradeiß.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 07:27:46 +0000