Ramhaufski - Missa à 23; Sanctus, Osanna et Benedictus

Beniamin Ludwig Ramhaufski (1631 - 1694)

During the first flowering of the high baroque, Beniamin Ludwig Ramhaufski was active in the Lambach monastery as organist and composer. He came from Prague and first sang as a choir boy at the court of Prince Martenitz in Passau, before being called to Lambach in 1648. There Ramhaufski completed his musical training with the study of the organ, and was then employed as organist by abbot Placidus Hieber beginning in 1653. Ramhaufski would surely have been involved in the conception of the new organ built for the monastery. The construction took place from 1653 to 1657 by Christoph Egedach from Straubinger. The organ is still in the church today.
Ramhaufski would have enjoyed quite a good reputation; in fact he was called on several times to compose music for the theatre at the Benedictine University in Salzburg. All of his music but one solemn mass is lost, which Ramhaufski dedicated in 1670 to the local abbot of the Lambach monastery, Erenbert Schreyvogl. The mass is very festive in its rich setting and instrumentation and attest to the composer's considerable skill.
Johann Beer (1655 -- 1700), who, in his autobiography, passed on some details about the life of the Lambacher organist, was one of his best known students. In 1655 Ramhaufski married Anna Siemer from Linz, with whom he later had 8 children. Furthermore the family Ramhaufski took in some nieces and nephews from Passau because after the fire of 1662 there was nowhere for them to stay. In November 1678 Anna Ramhaufski died and in May 1679 the widower married "maiden, Anna Barbara Weichlein", also from Linz. It is certain that Anna Barbara was a relative (sister?) of the two Lambach monks, Magnus and Romanus Weichlein. There were no offspring from this marriage.
Beniamin Ludwig Ramhaufski died on January 19, 1694 in Lambach, a "very noble and artistic gentleman". He was clearly respected in the monastery where he lived and worked. This is confirmed by the epitaph on the outside wall of the parish church (Friedhofskirche). Possibly Ramhaufski also had relations with the Kremsier monastery in Moravia (close to Olmütz), because in the monastery library there is an anonymous Toccata for 5 trumpets and timpani which is strikingly similar to Ramhaufski's Toccata ante Gloria with some lengthy passages that are identical.

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