Armin Kircher (1966 – 12 October 2015) was an Austrian composer and conductor.

Life

Born in

Kufstein Kufstein (; Central Bavarian: ''Kufstoa'') is a town in the Austrian state of Tyrol, the administrative seat of Kufstein District. With a population of about 19,600 it is the second largest Tyrolean town after the state capital Innsbruck. The grea ...

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, Kircher grew up in Breitenbach am Inn and completed his

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in 1985 at the College Borrpmaeum in

Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label= Austro-Bavarian) is the fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the Roman settlement of ''Iuvavum''. Salzburg was founded ...

. He led the church music department of the

Archdiocese of Salzburg The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg ( la, Archidioecesis Salisburgensis) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria. The archdiocese is one of two Austrian archdioceses, serving alongside the Archdiocese ...

and was, from 1992 to 2015, the organizational manager of the Austrian working week for church music. He was also a conductor at the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Salzburg and organist at the oldest preserved organ in the city of Salzburg in the Kajetanerkirche. He was the editor of several editions of ancient and modern choral music. He penned numerous refrains in praise of God in 2013.http://www.stift-stpeter.at/interactivist/frontend/downloadDoc.asp?file=Parte%5F%2BArmin%5FKircher%2Epdf&typ=.pdf&id=00137&chk=317292 Kircher died on 12 October 2015 of heart failure.

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20150924110351/http://www.stift-stpeter.at/de/personen/detail.asp?id=62&title=Mag.%20Armin%20Kircher {{DEFAULTSORT:Kircher, Armin 1966 births 2015 deaths People from Kufstein People from Kufstein District Austrian male composers