Romanus Weichlein

Romanus Weichlein (born November 11, 1652 in Linz as Andreas Franz Weichlein ; † September 8, 1706 in Maria-Haid, today Kleinfrauenhaid) was an Austrian composer and violinist of the Baroque period.

Romanus Weichlein was the son of a family of musicians in Linz, who probably received his first music lessons from his father, from Anton Seydler and Benjamin Ludwig Ramhaufski. Weichlein came to the Benedictine monastery in Lambach as a novice in 1671 and took the first name Romanus. In December of the same year he studied theology and philosophy in Salzburg, where he probably received musical instruction from Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber. He celebrated the solemn first mass after completing his studies on July 8, 1678. In 1691 he became music prefect and house composer in the Benedictine monastery in Säben near Klausenin South Tyrol. From 1705 until his death he was a pastor in Kleinfrauenhaid .

Weichlein left several collections of sonatas and masses. Numerous works that he dedicated to various Tyrolean monasteries were lost. The surviving works stand in the tradition of his compatriots Biber, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer , Pavel Josef Vejvanovský and Georg Muffat.