He was born
Paul Eugen Josef von An der Lan-Hochbrunn in
Salorno,
County of Tyrol, descended from an ancient noble
Tirolean family. His father was a railway officer in
Salorno. He completed his first musical studies at the Academy of
Bolzano. In 1880, he joined the Order of Friars Minor (better known as the Franciscan friars) at the age of sixteen at their
novitiate in
Salzburg, where he received his
religious name of
Hartmann. He was
ordained to the
Catholic priesthood in 1886 in
Brixen. After serving as organist and choir director in
Lienz and
Reutte, he then studied in
Innsbruck with
Josef Pembauer. In 1893 Lan-Hochbrunn was sent to the
Holy Land, where he became organist at the
Monastery of Saint Saviour and director of the Philharmonic Orchestra in
Jerusalem, and from 1894 organist at the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre there. In 1895, Lan-Hochbrunn went to
Rome, where he worked as organist at the Franciscan
Basilica of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli on the
Capitoline Hill and from 1901 as director of the
conservatory on the Piazza Santa Chiara. In the same year, he gave a concert tour to
Saint Petersburg for the world premiere of his
oratorio San Francesco. In addition to other honors he was member of the Roman circle of the
24 Immortali. From 1906 till his death in 1914, Lan-Hochbrunn lived at the Franciscan Monastery of
St. Anna im Lehel near
Munich – with a brief interruption in 1906/07, during which he stayed in
New York City. == Works ==