Franz Wasner
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Franz Wasner | |
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File:Franz Wasner - Johannes Paul II.JPG | |
Born | Feldkirchen, Austria |
December 28, 1905
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Salzburg, Austria |
Occupation | priest, missionary, music director |
Franz Mathias Wasner (December 28, 1905 – June 21, 1992) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and the director and conductor of the Trapp Family Singers and a missionary. In the quasi-fictionalized stage and screen musical The Sound of Music, he is represented by the character Max Detweiler.
Biography
Wasner was born on December 28, 1905, in Feldkirchen near Mattighofen, a small town in Upper Austria. After graduating from the University of Innsbruck, he was ordained a priest and served in the small rural community of Mayrhofen in Tyrol for one year. He studied ecclesiastical law in Rome and graduated in 1934.
Father Wasner returned to Salzburg where he met Georg von Trapp. He and Trapp became close friends and from that time on he accompanied the Trapp family as director and conductor on all their concert tours[citation needed]. He also composed several masses and songs.
He then[clarification needed] decided to do missionary work on the Fiji Islands until 1966. During his stay he commissioned murals in the small church of his station in Naiserelangi by the Mexican artist Jean Charlot.
The Vatican appointed him rector of the "Collegio Santa Maria dell'Anima" (the domicile of German-speaking theology students in Rome) which he managed for over 15 years.
He died in June 1992 in Salzburg.
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