!!!Corner, David Gregor

b. Hyršperk, Czech Republic (then Hirschberg), 1587, 
d. Goettweig Abbey (municipality of Furth bei Goettweig, Lower 
Austria), Jan. 9, 1648, priest in Retz (Lower Austria), 1631 abbot of 
Goettweig, 1638 Rector of the University of Vienna. His collection of 
hymns "Gross Catholisch Gesangbuch" (1625, from the third edition 
onwards: "Geistliche Nachtigal der Catholischen Teutschen") is the 
most important collection of this kind from the early 17th century. C. 
tried to revive church singing on the basis of folk singing.



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