!!!Messner, Josef

b. Schwaz (Tyrol), Feb. 27, 1893, 
d. Salzburg, Feb. 23, 1969, composer, organist and conductor. 
Brother of Johannes  Messner. 1922 organist at Salzburg Cathedral, 
from 1926 conductor at Salzburg Cathedral and conductor of the 
cathedral concerts at the Salzburg Festival; head of the Church Music 
Seminar in the Mozarteum. Awarded the Austrian State Prize 1936.

!Works
Operas: Hadassa, 1925; Das letzte Recht, without date; Ines, 
1933; Agnes Bernauer, 1935. - Incidental music for H. v. 
Hofmannsthal´s "Jedermann" (Everyman), symphonies, music for 
festivals, compositions for the violin and the piano, masses and 
church music. - Editor of the collection "Alte Salzburger Meister".

!Literature
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