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Alois Ickstadt
Alois Ickstadt (born 22 September 1930) is a German pianist, choral conductor, university professor and composer. He was professor at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. He promoted choral singing from children's choir to adult groups for the state broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk, namely the Figuralchor Frankfurt which he founded in 1966 and conducted until 2011. Life Ickstadt studied music pedagogy at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. He also studied piano with Erich Flinsch, composition with Kurt Hessenberg and conducting with Walther Davisson and Karl Maria Zwißler. Interested in cultural relevance, he also studied German, musicology, philosophy and history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. He took classes with Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, whose philosophy shaped his life. During his studies, he worked as a pianist for radio stations, with a focus on contemporary music, collaborating with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Dean Dixon, Sixten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hochschule Für Musik Und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt Am Main
The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (german: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, italic=no, link=no, HfMDK) is a state Hochschule for music, theatre and dance in Frankfurt and is the only one of its kind in the Federal State of Hesse. It was founded in 1938. At present around 900 students are taught by about sixty-five professors and 320 other teaching staff. The study programs include performance in all instruments and voice, the teaching of music, composition, conducting and church music. There are also programs in musical theatre, drama and dance. The university offers doctoral studies in musicology and music education. History Frankfurt had an institute for the teaching of music since 1878. The Hoch Conservatory flourished and had a worldwide reputation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through teachers like the pianist Clara Schumann and composers Joachim Raff, Bernhard Sekles and Engelbert Humperdinck, the Hoch Conse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seasons (Haydn)
''The Seasons'' (German: ''Die Jahreszeiten'', Hob. XXI:3) is a secular oratorio by Joseph Haydn, first performed in 1801. History Haydn was led to write ''The Seasons'' by the great success of his previous oratorio '' The Creation'' (1798), which had become very popular and was in the course of being performed all over Europe. Libretto The libretto for ''The Seasons'' was prepared for Haydn, just as with ''The Creation'', by Baron Gottfried van Swieten, an Austrian nobleman who had also exercised an important influence on the career of Mozart (among other things commissioning Mozart's reorchestration of Handel's ''Messiah''). Van Swieten's libretto was based on extracts from the long English poem " The Seasons" by James Thomson (1700–1748), which had been published in 1730. Whereas in ''The Creation'' Swieten was able to limit himself to rendering an existing (anonymous) libretto into German, for ''The Seasons'' he had a much more demanding task. Olleson writes, "Even when Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adalbert Kraus
Adalbert Kraus (born 27 April 1937 in Aschaffenburg) is a German tenor in opera and concert, known for singing the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Career Adalbert Kraus first graduated in German studies, theology, and philosophy and in 1967, began to study voice at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg with Henriette Klink-Schneider.Adalbert Kraus on the bach-cantatas website He was a at the from 1970 to 1974. His roles included Andres in Berg's '' |
Alison Browner
Alison Margaret Browner (born 22 September 1957) is an Irish mezzo-soprano opera singer. Life Born in Dublin, Ireland, Browner graduated in Music at Trinity College (Dublin), Trinity College with Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Arts while she also studied singing and violin at the College of Music (now the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama). Through a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (''DAAD'') she went to the Hamburg Academy of Music and completed her studies with a recital and concert diploma with Hans Hotter Her married name is Alison Gries and she is based in Limburg an der Lahn, Germany. Career Her singing career began at the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Staatstheater Darmstadt working with Hans Hotter. Browner sang in Richard Strauss' ''Ariadne auf Naxos'' and the title role in ''Der Rosenkavalier'' and the great Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart and Gioacchino Rossini, Rossini parts in 1987 as an ensemble member of the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrike Sonntag
Ulrike Sonntag (born 1959) is a German operatic soprano and academic voice teacher at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. She was previously a member of the Staatstheater Stuttgart, Vienna State Opera, and other ensembles, and has performed in operas and concerts, and taught masterclasses, in several countries. Among her recordings are rarely performed oratorios by Fanny Hensel and Paul Hindemith. Life Born in Esslingen am Neckar, she attended the Georgii-Gymnasium at her hometown, concluding with the Abitur. She studied music pedagogy and German in Stuttgart, and then studied voice in Romania and at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Irmgard Hartmann-Dressler (1924–2013). She took master classes with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Aribert Reimann. In 1985, Sonntag won the second prize at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb in Bonn. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass In B Minor Structure
The Mass in B minor is Johann Sebastian Bach's only setting of the complete Latin text of the . Towards the end of his life, mainly in 1748 and 1749, he finished composing new sections and compiling it into a complex, unified structure. Bach structured the work in four parts: # # # # The four sections of the manuscript are numbered, and Bach's usual closing formula (S.D.G = ) is found at the end of the . Some parts of the mass were used in Latin even in Lutheran Leipzig, and Bach had composed them: five settings of the Missa, containing the and the , and several additional individual settings of the and the . To achieve the , a setting of the complete text of the mass, he combined his most elaborate Missa, the Missa in B minor, written in 1733 for the court in Dresden, and a written for Christmas of 1724. He added a few new compositions, but mostly derived movements from cantata movements, in a technique known as parody. The Mass is a compendium of many different styles i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Sous
Alfred Sous (24 November 1925 – 6 April 2011) was a German classical oboist, University lecturer and writer. Life Born in Rheydt, at the age of 14 Sous began his music education at the . In 1942 he was drafted. After his training as a soldier he was sent to the Eastern Front and in 1943 to Soviet war captivity. After seven years as a prisoner of war, where he was "intendant" of a camp theatre group, he finished his music studies with Winschermann. His first engagement was in Darmstadt. Afterwards, in 1952, he went to Frankfurt as a solo oboist for the hr-Sinfonieorchester of the Hessischer Rundfunk. He was also a member of the ''Cappella Coloniensis'' and the Bayreuth Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. Sous was oboe professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. He has published works on the history of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and the hr-Sinfonieorchester. He became known with his crime novel ''Tosca'' and the satire ''Broderich komponiert schwarze Löc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Gerold Schramm
Ernst Gerold Schramm (8 July 1938 – 8 June 2004) was a German baritone in opera and concert, and an academic voice teacher. He was a member of the Staatstheater Hannover and Oper Frankfurt ensembles and performed internationally. He taught at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt and the Universität der Künste Berlin. Career Born in Steinheim am Main, Schramm learned piano as a child and sang solo parts in the renowned choir of his uncle. He became a pianist and choral conductor. He studied voice at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt with Ernst Arnold, Martin Gründler and , the leader of the opera class. In 1965, he won the International Singing Competition in Geneva. It led to a concert at the Wiener Musikverein, where he performed ''Ein deutsches Requiem'' by Brahms, conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch. He was then engaged to perform and record Bach's '' St John Passion'', '' St Matthew Passion'' and Mass in B Minor with Karl Richter. With the Münchener Bach-Chor, he toured South A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ria Bollen
Ria Bollen (born 11 February 1942) is a Flemish contralto, who had an international career as a concert singer between 1965 and 1992. Her broad repertoire included Bach's Passions, Mozart's Requiem, Beethoven's ''Missa solemnis'', especially works by Gustav Mahler and works of the 20th century. She was the soloist in the world premiere of Frank Martin's Requiem. She sang many art songs, including by Belgian composers. Life Born in Sint-Truiden, Bollen a school of classical humanities, and then studied psychology. After two years, she studied voice at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp with Lucie Frateur, who accompanied her throughout her career. She graduated in 1968 with the major distinction. She also studied with Pierre Bernac, Felix de Nobel, Erik Werba and Christa Ludwig. She made her debut as a soloist in 1965, in ''Godelieve'' by Edgar Tinel conducted by Léonce Gras. Also before she graduated, she obtained the first prize of the Maria Canalswedstrijd in Barcelona, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hildegard Heichele
Hildegard Heichele (; born September 1947) is a German soprano in opera, concert and recital. A member of the Oper Frankfurt from 1974, she has appeared in major European opera houses, concert halls and international festivals. She is known for Mozart roles such as Susanna, Blonde and Despina. Heichele is featured on opera recordings, including a DVD of ''Die Fledermaus'' by Johann Strauss from the Royal Opera House in London, and singing concerts, such as the opening of the Alte Oper with Mahler's Eighth Symphony in 1981. Career Born in Obernburg, Heichele studied at the Musikhochschule München from 1966, graduating with the artistic exam in 1970. She made her stage debut already during this time as Jenny in Weill's '' Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny'' at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt. She was engaged at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 1971. She became a member of the ensemble of the Oper Frankfurt in 1974, where she sang many Mozart roles such as Susanna in ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nun Komm, Der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata (Now come, Savior of the heathens), 62, in Leipzig for the first Sunday in Advent and first performed it on 3 December 1724. The chorale cantata is based on Martin Luther's Advent hymn "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland". It is part of his chorale cantata cycle. History and words Bach wrote the cantata in 1724, his second year as ''Thomaskantor'' in Leipzig, for the First Sunday of Advent. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the Epistle to the Romans, night is advanced, day will come (), and from the Gospel of Matthew, the Entry into Jerusalem (). The cantata is based on Martin Luther's Advent hymn in eight stanzas "", the number one hymn to begin the Liturgical year in all Lutheran hymnals. The unknown poet retained the first and last stanza, paraphrased stanzas 2 and 3 to an aria, stanzas 4 and 5 to a recitative, the remaining stanzas to an aria and a duet recitative. Bach first performed the cantata on 3 December 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
