Thematischer Katalog Mathias Öttl

Following the recent publication of the work of Karlmann Pachschmidt the Thematische Katalog Mathias Öttl honours another composer of the late Austrian Baroque. Baptized on 21 February 1675 at Lake Constance in Bodman, Öttl’s first documented musical appearance was as a participant in a Jesuit drama performance in Vienna on 31 July 1698. Activities as a tenor in Vienna’s St. Stephen’s cathedral, employment at the Schotten monastery as well as his appointment as Musicus and subsequently Kapellmeister to the dowager Empress Eleonora, the widow of Leopold I., are further stages in his life which are discussed in the biographical section of the Katalog. Another aspect of this work is the investigation, in particular the attribution of 66 compositions, found under several composers’ names, which has also shed new light on several of the 37 collections from five countries, in which these works are now housed.