Eduard Rottmanner was a German composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 and organist

Organist

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. He is the cousin of German poet, philosopher, and politician Karl Rottmanner

Karl Rottmanner

Karl Borromäus Rottmanner was a German poet, philosopher, and politician. Born in Munich, he was the son of lawyer and agricultural reformer Simon Rottmanner and his wife Maria Anna Barbara Paur . His cousin was German composer and organist Eduard Rottmanner...

 and great nephew of lawyer Simon Rottmanner

Simon Rottmanner

Simon Rottmanner was a German writer, agrarian reformer, jurist, landowner and accountant...

. He studied the organ and music composition with Joseph Graetz

Joseph Graetz

Joseph Graetz was a German composer, organist, and music educator. In 1790 two of his stage works premiered: the operetta Das Gespenst mit der Trommel and the opera Adelheid von Veltheim...

 and Kaspar Ett

Kaspar Ett

Kaspar Ett was a German composer and organist.-Source:*Karl Emil von Schafhäutl: "Ett, Kaspar", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie...

. In 1828 he entered the University of Munich where he studied philosophy, logic, history, physics, and statistics. During that time he continued taking music lessons privately and held organist posts at various churches in Munich, including the Bürgersaalkirche

Bürgersaalkirche (Munich)

The Bürgersaal is a historical building in Munich, Germany. Also known as Bürgersaalkirche since the consecration of the altar on May 13, 1778, it is the prayer and meeting room of the Marian Men Congregation "Annunciation". It was built in 1709/1710 under design by Giovanni Antonio Viscardi...

, the Herzogspitalkirche

Herzogspitalkirche (Munich)

Herzogspitalkirche is a Catholic church in Munich, southern Germany.It was a Baroque building commissioned by Duke Albert V of Bavaria, designed by Johann Gunetzrhainer and inaugurated in 1727....

, and St. Michael's Church, Munich

St. Michael's Church, Munich

St Michael is a Jesuit church in Munich, southern Germany, the largest Renaissance church north of the Alps. The style of the building had an enormous influence on Southern German early Baroque architecture.-Architecture:...

. In 1839 he was appointed organist of the Speyer Cathedral

Speyer Cathedral

The Speyer Cathedral, officially the Imperial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption and St Stephen, in Latin: Domus sanctae Mariae Spirae in Speyer, Germany, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Speyer and is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Bamberg. The cathedral, which is dedicated to St...

, a post he held until his death four years later.