Alberich Mazak
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Czech-Austrian composer
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Austria
- Active from
- 1609
- Active to
- 1661
Discography
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Alberich Mazak, also Alberik Mazák (1609 – 9 May 1661) was a 17th-century Czech-Austrian composer. Mazak was born in Ratibor to a Czech family. After studying music and philosophy, he entered Heiligenkreuz Abbey in 1631 and was ordained a priest in 1633. Mazak created more than 300 compositions. He wrote masses, litanies, offertories, antiphons, psalms and sacred cantatas. The instruments he used most were the violin, the trumpet, the bassoon, the viola da gamba, the cornet and the sackbut. <a
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Racibórz
- Place of death
- Vienna
- Occupation
- choir director
- Languages spoken
- German
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Genre
- liturgical music
- Movement
- Baroque music
- Instrument
- organ
- Image
- Mazak1-tit.jpg
- Religious order
- Cistercians
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- date of birth
- 1609-01-01
- date of death
- 1661-05-09
- P8168
- Rudolf Sieczyński
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