Pedro Sinzig

Life

Born: 9 January 1876, Linz, Germany

Died: 8 December 1952, Düsseldorf, Germany

Biography

German Franciscan priest, musicologist, composer and conductor, was naturalized Brazilian in February, 9th, 1898, in the state of Bahia. A complete artist, he ran a newspaper, a film magazine, as well as a sacred music journal called “Música Sacra”. He became professor and director of the School of Sacred Music and authored masses and oratorios as well as simpler congregational music, and collected traditional Brazilian sacred melodies, publishing them in his Cecília, along with Fr. Basílio Rower.

List of choral works

Amável Santa Rosa Cantem os céus Jesus num berço de palhas Jesus é meu amor Meu Jesus por mim nascido

Nasceu, nasceu, humanos Nesta noite venturosa Neste dia, ó Maria Nobre virgem (à S. Cecília) Ouvi, Senhor, queixoso brado

Perdão, Meu Deus Que felizes hoje somos Que santa e divina harmonia

 
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Publications

• Cecília: Manual de Cânticos Sacros para o canto uníssono na igreja (7ª Edição, Vozes de Petrópolis, 1939)

External websites:

• Page in the Brazilian Franciscan Province website (PT-BR)
• Description of Pedro Sinzig's work in the pt.Wikipedia