Magdalene Schauss-Flake (25 July 1921 – 24 September 2008) was a German composer and organist who gave recitals throughout the United States and Europe.
Biography
Schauss-Flake was born in
Essen, where she studied church music at the
Folkwang School
The Folkwang University of the Arts is a university for music, theater, dance, design, and academic studies, located in four German cities of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1927, its traditional main location has been in the former Werden Abbey in E ...
while working as a jazz musician in bars. Her teachers included
Hans Chemin-Petit,
Siegfried Reda, and
Ludwig Weber. She married a minister named Schauss and they had three children. Schauss-Flake taught at a music academy in Szczecin, Poland, and worked as a church musician in Germany in Anklam, Essen-Altendorf, and Essen-Kupferdreh. She gave organ recitals throughout the United States and Europe. She is buried in Burgsponheim, Germany.
Schauss-Flake’s works have been recorded commercially on LPs by Capella 3 (today known as Cantate);
Carus-Verlag
Carus-Verlag is a German music publisher founded in 1972 and based in Stuttgart.
Carus was founded by choral conductor Günter Graulich and his wife Waltraud with an emphasis on choral repertoire. The catalogue currently includes more than 26,00 ...
; Lauda; and MDG (
Musikproduktion Dabringhaus Und Grimm).
Her compositions are published by Carus-Verlag, Presto Music, Strube Musikverlag, and Tezak Verlag. Her works include:
Chamber
*''Serenade'' (4 trombones)
*''Suite in G'' (brass and woodwinds)
*''Variationen ueber das Lied ‘es ist ein Schnitter'' (trombone and narrator)
*''Variationen ueber ein Thema von
Anton Dvorak
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'' (trumpet and trombone)
Vocal
*“Befiehl dem Herrn deine Wege”
*''Der Morgensternn ist aufgedrungen'' (soprano, choir, and 6 wind instruments; text by
Daniel Rumpius)
*“Du meine Seele singe”
*“Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt” (
Psalm 100)
*“Jauchzet, ihr Himmel”
*“Nun lasst uns Goot, dem Herrn”
*''Ohren gabst du mir'' (choir; text by Paul Ernst Ruppel)
References
External links
Hear music by Magdalene Schauss-Flake
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1921 births
2008 deaths
German women composers
German organists