Goller, Vinzenz Pseudonym Hans von Berchthal#
Goller, Vinzenz (pseudonym: Hans von Berchthal), b. St. Andrae bei Brixen (South Tyrol), March 9, 1873, d. St. Michael im Lungau (Province of Salzburg), Sept. 11, 1953, composer of sacral music. Head of the Department of Sacral Music at the Vienna Academy for Music and the Performing Arts (in Klosterneuburg); most important Austrian representative of Caecilianism, joined the folk liturgy movement in later years.
Works#
40 masses; motets, hymns, songs. - Die Orgel beim kath. Gottesdienst, 4 vols., 1927-1944. Publ. the magazine. "Musica Divina" and the collection "Meisterwerke kirchl. Tonkunst in Oesterreich", 1913ff.