Singer, Peter Josef Anton#

Singer, Peter (Josef Anton), b. Unterhaeselgehr (Tirol), July 18, 1810 d. Salzburg, Jan. 25, 1882, composer, organist and music theorist. Franciscan monk, from 1840 lived in the Salzburg Franciscan monastery; his contemporaries considered him one of the most famous musicians of the town. 1845 invented the ´Pansymphonikon´, a mechanical harmonium-piano with 2 pedals and 48 stops, the sound of which was similar to that of an orchestra (exhibited in the P.-S.-Museum in the Salzburg Franciscan monastery).