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The Catholic Encyclopedia

Franz Joseph Antony

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Charles G. Herbermann and others (editors)

Transcribed from a dated scan; artifacts may remain. Edition notes

Antony, Franz Joseph, b. 1790, at Mister, Westphalia; d. there, 1837. He received Holy Orders, and in 1819 became choirmaster at the cathedral, succeeding his father as organist, in 1832. In addition to some songs he published four choral masses, and his erudite work “ Archaéologisch-liturgisches Gesangbuch des Gregorianischen Kirchengesanges” (1829), and ‘“Geschichtliche Darstellung eee cu weed und Vervollkommnung der Orgel’, o2.

KornMmtutimr, Lex. der kirchl. Tonkunst; Baker, Biogr. Dict. of Musicians; Riemann, Dict. of Music.

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J. A. Völker.

Trans. None. Written in English by the contributors whose signatures close each article., The Catholic Encyclopedia, An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, in fifteen volumes, 1907. Public domain.

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