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    Franz Xaver Witt (February 9, 1834 – December 2, 1888) was a Catholic priest, church musician, and composer. He was a leading figure in the Cecilian movement...
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  • proper is considered to have been established only in the 19th century. Franz Xaver Witt, a priest trained in Regensburg, published a call for reform of church...
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    astronomer Christian Friedrich Witt (1660s–1717), German baroque composer Ernst Witt (1911–1991), German mathematician Franz Xaver Witt (1834 – 1888), German composer...
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  • (1921–1984) Christian Friedrich Witt (c. 1660 – 1717) Franz Xaver Witt (1834–1888) Friedrich Witt (1770–1836) Robert William Witt (1930–1967) Diane Wittry (born...
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    commander Franz von Paula Schrank (1747–1835), botanist Johann Michael Sailer (1751–1832), Catholic theologian and bishop of Regensburg Franz Xaver Witt (1834–1888)...
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    Willibaldsburg Karl Engel, brother of Jakob Engel, carpenter and builder Franz Xaver Witt (1834–1888), church musician, composer, reformer, founder of the general...
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  • November 17 – Jakob Dont, violinist and composer, 73 December 2 – Franz Xaver Witt, church musician and composer, 54 December 26 – Alfred Vance, English...
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    1868 as Musica sacra – Monatsschrift für Kirchenmusik und Liturgie by Franz Xaver Witt, a monthly paper. On the occasion of the centenary in 1968, the paper...
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  • Johann Kuhnau (1660–1722) Christian Friedrich Witt (1660–1717) Giovanni Henrico Albicastro (1660–1730) Franz Xaver Murschhauser (1663–1738) Georg Caspar Schürmann...
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  • work in restoring Catholic church music from Palestine, influenced Franz Xaver Witt to founding the Caecilia Society. His major compositions are Missa...
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    latter's ideas for the reform of ecclesiastical music. Men like Franz Xaver Witt, Franz Xaver Haberl, Karl Ludwig von Haller, later supported this department...
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    Franz Xaver Haberl (12 April 1840, in Oberellenbach (today Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg), Lower Bavaria – 5 September 1910, in Ratisbon) was a German musicologist...
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    friendship connected him with the reformer of Catholic church music Franz Xaver Witt (1834–1888). Greith's efforts, though, were hardly noticed by the cathedral...
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    Cecilians were not entirely happy with the inclusion of wind instruments, "Franz Xaver Witt loved it, no doubt rationalizing the use of wind instruments as necessary...
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    catholic Regensburg where the pronouncements of leading Cecilians such as Franz Xaver Witt were implemented less selectively. At Breslau, too, there were changes...
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  • University of Innsbruck. In 1872 he went to Regensburg to study under Fr. Franz Xaver Witt. While he was at Regensburg, the celebrated firm of Pustet decided...
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  • (1708–1776) Francesco Araja (1709 – after 1762) Franz Benda (1709–1786) Jean-Noël Hamal (1709–1778) Franz Xaver Richter (1709–1789) Christoph Schaffrath (1709–1763)...
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    group "Pueri Cantores" was founded. The goal was worded by founder Franz Xaver Witt: "Wir wollen nichts anderes als die praktische Durchführung dessen...
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    lived the rest of his life in Vienna and was known in the Austrian court as Franz, Duke of Reichstadt for his adult life (from the German version of his second...
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  • Franciszek Ksawery – Polish François Xavier – French František Xaver – Czech Franz Xaver – German A. F. X. Baron (Anthony Francis Xavier Baron) (1913–1974)...
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    Te Deum, was composed on 14 November 1884, presumably on request of Franz Xaver Witt for the Cecilian society. The manuscript is archived at the Österreichische...
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    the motet is archived at the 'Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Franz Xaver Witt was a leader of the Cecilian Movement, aiming to restore Catholic church...
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    Horowitz, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Arthur Rubinstein, Xaver Scharwenka, Josef Hofmann, Vladimir de Pachmann, Moriz Rosenthal and many...
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    nearly 1,000 postcards produced by the Wiener Werkstätte from 1907-1920. Franz Xaver Messerschmidt 1736-1783: From Neoclassicism to Expressionism opened on...
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  • Willy Haibel, Georg Jennerwein, Bernd Scholz, Franz Seitz Jr. and Franz Seitz Sr., Hans Terofal and Xaver Terofal and Alois Wolf Straßberg, Burial site...
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  • of the broader Romanticism movement of Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert are often seen as the dominant transitional figures composers from...
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    traditional taste in art: his favourite painters were Alexandre Cabanel and Franz Xaver Winterhalter, who received major commissions, and whose work was purchased...
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  • Günther Schwab Josef Schwammberger Franz Xaver Schwarz Heinrich Schwarz Gustav Schwarzenegger Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Franz Schwede Hans Schweitzer Otto Scrinzi...
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    Hans-Joachim Weck was a member of the Association of Knight's Cross Recipients. Franz Wecker's nomination by the troop was approved by all intermittent commanding...
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    party and military purposes. Further, in 1936, Nazi Party treasurer Franz Xaver Schwarz commented to Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess "It has repeatedly become...
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