Carlmann Kolb
1703 — 1765
Carlmann Kolb was a German priest, organist, and composer.
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Carlmann Kolb, born in Köstlarn, Bavaria, in 1703, began his musical education as a choir-boy at the Benedictine Abbey of Aschbach. He took his vows there in 1723, was ordained priest in 1729, and served as the abbey organist. Later, with permission from his superiors, Kolb became a resident-tutor for a noble family in Munich, where he died in 1765, as recorded by Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1906). His sole known musical work, Certamen Aonium, published in Augsburg in 1733, comprises preludes, short fugues or versetts, and concluding voluntaries intended for church use. While Ritter, in his Geschichte des Orgelspiels, deemed Kolb an “original and capable musician,” extracts cited by Seiffert in Geschichte der Klaviermusik suggest many pieces were composed in a “somewhat unecclesiastical style,” more suited to the harpsichord or pianoforte than the organ. This work, with its “bold experiments in chromatic and enharmonic progressions,” is characteristic of the lighter organ playing style prevalent in Catholic South Germany and Austria due to Italian influence, according to Grove’s Dictionary (1906).