Roman Hoffstetter
Composer
1742 – 1815
Who was Roman Hoffstetter?
Roman Hoffstetter was a classical composer and Benedictine monk who also admired Joseph Haydn almost to the point of imitation. Hoffstetter wrote "everything that flows from Haydn's pen seems to me so beautiful and remains so imprinted on my memory that I cannot prevent myself now and again from imitating something as well as I can."
In 1965, the musicologist Alan Tyson published the finding that the entire set of six String Quartets long-admired as Haydn's Op. 3, including the Andante cantabile of No. 5 in F Major known as Haydn's Serenade, were actually by Roman Hoffstetter. Further discoveries have more strongly established Hoffstetter's authorship of at least the first two of the six quartets.
Little is known about his early training or life, though it is likely that he came from a musical family. He was a twin; the other was Johann Urban Alois Hoffstetter, who became director of the Franconian province of the Teutonic Order and also a small-time composer. Hoffstetter took his vows as Pater Romanus at the Benedictine monastery in Amorbach on 5 June 1763, and was ordained a priest on 10 September 1766.
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- Born
- Apr 24, 1742
Weikersheim - Also known as
- Holfstetter
- Roman Hofstetter
- Hoffstetter, Roman
- Nationality
- Germany
- Died
- May 21, 1815
Miltenberg
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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