!!!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).


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