Franz Surges (11 October 1958 – 20 September 2015) was a German
composer and musician.
Education
Surges was born in
Remagen
Remagen ( ) is a town in Germany in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, in the district of Ahrweiler. It is about a one-hour drive from Cologne, just south of Bonn, the former West German capital. It is situated on the left (western) bank of the ...
,
Germany
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. He studied at the Episcopal School for Church Music,
Aachen, and at the
Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...
Conservatoire, Department
Aachen.
He took the following exams:
* Cantor-exam (called A-exam)
* Diploma in Music Pedagogy (Organ)
* Diploma of the Artistic final-exam, main subject organ
* Diploma in Music Pedagogy (note-setting)
He took further lessons in composition with
Tilo Medek
Tilo Medek, originally Müller-Medek (22 January 1940 – 3 February 2006), was a German classical composer, musicologist and music publisher. He grew up in East Germany, but was inspired by the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He composed radio plays an ...
.
He completed international masterclasses resp. music academies, e.g. by Jean Guillou, Piet Kee, Guy Bovet, Harald Vogel, Monserrat Torrent.
Position and awards
From 1981 Franz Surges was a church musician at St. Antony, Eschweiler-
Roehe (since 2006 also St. Michael,
Eschweiler
Eschweiler (, Ripuarian: ) is a municipality in the district of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany on the river Inde, near the German-Belgian-Dutch border, and about east of Aachen and west of Cologne.
History
* Celts (fi ...
), composer, choir director and music teacher, among others, for church-musical (so-called C-exams).
Franz Surges obtained a number of prizes and awards, including:
* First prize composition contest "in Furtherance of Contemporaneous Music Maintenance in Religious Services", Schwäbisch Gmuend (1991) within the framework of the festival "European Church Music"
* First Prize composition contest "Mayrhofer-Prize",
Passau, Germany, 2002
* First Prize composition contest in the town of Siegburg, 2006
Oeuvre
Surges composed works in various genres: choral (male chorus, female chorus, mixed chorus), orchestral, chamber (strings, woodwinds, brass, piano, organ), instrumental and vocal.
Literature
Anthology of information about Franz Surges
References
External links
– biography and list of works
1958 births
2015 deaths
People from Ahrweiler (district)
German composers
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