Franz Xaver Pentenrieder (6 February 1813 – 17 July 1867) was a German composer of church music and operas. Pentenrieder was born in

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, Bavaria and studied with

Johann Nepomuk Kalcher Johann Nepomuk Kalcher (15 May 1764 – 2 February 1827) was a German organist and composer. He was a student of Joseph Graetz and an instructor of the young Carl Maria von Weber when the latter moved to Munich Munich ( ; german: Mün ...

and Joseph Hartmann Stuntz in Munich. He entered the choir of the

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and went on to become court

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and organist to the

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. He also served as the choir director at

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and répétiteur at the Munich Hofoper (now known as the

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). He spent the final years of his life in an insane asylum after serious injuries from a carriage accident left him physically and mentally disabled.

Operas

*''Die Nacht zu Paluzzi'', romantic opera in two acts, premiered Königliches Hof- und National-Theater, Munich, 2 October 1840 *''Das Haus ist zu verkaufen'', comic

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in one act, premiered Leipzig, 1846''

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'' (22 July 1867)
"Fr. X. Pentenrieder"
pp. 3297–3298

References

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