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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,''Storch, Familie''
In ''musiklexikon.ac.at'', 20 August 2013, retrieved on 23 February 2020. (23 December 1813 – 31 December 1887) was an Austrian composer and
''Anton Storch''
In ''viennatouristguide.at'', retrieved 25 November 2013.
39 Biographisches Lexikon des Kaisertums Österreich
* * * Rudolf Flotzinger: ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon''. Volume 5. publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2006, .
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,''Storch, Familie''In ''musiklexikon.ac.at'', 20 August 2013, retrieved on 23 February 2020. (23 December 1813 – 31 December 1887) was an Austrian composer and
choral
A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which ...
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). Storch was choir director of the Wiener Männergesang-Verein, the and the Niederösterreichischer Sängerbund, as well as orchestra director at the Theater an der Wien and the Theater in der Josefstadt. His son Anton Storch (25 December 1843 in Vienna – 19 April 1873 idem) followed in his father's footsteps asKapellmeister
(, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...
and composer.
M. Storch died in Vienna at the age of 74. His Ehrengrab
An ''Ehrengrab'' (English: 'grave of honor') is a distinction granted by certain German, Swiss and Austrian cities to some of their citizens for extraordinary services or achievements in their lifetimes. If there are no descendants or instituti ...
(grave of honour) is located on the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 0, row 1, number 11).Hedwig Abraham''Anton Storch''
In ''viennatouristguide.at'', retrieved 25 November 2013.
References
Further reading
* Constantin von Wurzbach: ''Storch, A. M.''. In ''Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich
''Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich'' (English, ''Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire'') (abbreviated ''Wurzbach'' from the author's surname) is a 60-volume work, edited and published by Constantin von Wurzbach, conta ...
''. 39th part, Kaisetrlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1879, Onlin39 Biographisches Lexikon des Kaisertums Österreich
* * * Rudolf Flotzinger: ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon''. Volume 5. publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2006, .
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Storch, Anton M Austrian choral conductors Austrian composers 1813 births 1887 deaths Musicians from Vienna