Werner Jacob (4 March 1938 – 23 May 2006) was a German organist, composer and academic.

Career

Werner Fritz Hermann Herbert Jacob was born in Mengersgereuth,

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. He studied at the

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to 1961, organ with

Walter Kraft Walter Kraft (Cologne, 9 June 1905 – Amsterdam, 9 May 1977) was a German organist and composer, best known for his remarkably long tenure (1929–72) at the Marienkirche, Lübeck. Biography Kraft studied piano and organ in Hamburg with Hannem ...

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, composition with

Wolfgang Fortner Wolfgang Fortner (12 October 1907 – 5 September 1987) was a German composer, composition teacher and conductor. Life Fortner was born in Leipzig. From his parents, who were both singers, Fortner very early on had intense contact with music. ...

, and conducting with

Carl Ueter Carl Ueter (sometimes also ''Karl Ueter''; 18 January 1900 – 30 September 1985) was a German composer of classical music. From 1950 to his retirement in 1965 he was professor at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. Life and work Ueter was born ...

. He studied organ also privately with

Anton Nowakowski Anton Nowakowski (10 February 1897 – 3 January 1969) was a German organist, conductor and composer. Biography Born in Langenau near Danzig, Nowakowski was a pupil of Alexander von Zemlinsky and Fidelio F. Finke in Prague (composition), Max ...

. Jacob was the church musician at St. Sebald in

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from 1969 to 1991. He was from 1985 to 2003 the artistic director of the (ION, International week of organ music). Jacob was professor of artistic organ playing (''Künstlerisches Orgelspiel'') at the

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from 1976 to 1998. He was a composer in many genres. A

symphony A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning com ...

in five movements was unfinished when he died in Nuremberg.

Awards

Jacob was awarded the in 1983. He received in 1993 the , and in 2003

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...

Compositions

* ''Fantasie, Adagio und Epilog'' * ''Improviation sur E.B.'' (

Ernst Bloch Ernst Simon Bloch (; July 8, 1885 – August 4, 1977; pseudonyms: Karl Jahraus, Jakob Knerz) was a German Marxist philosopher. Bloch was influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, as well as by apocalyptic and religious thinkers ...

) (1970) * ''Metamorphosen über Themen aus Max Regers op.135b'' (1975) * ''Cinque Pezzi sacri'' * ''Suscipe verbum'' (1996) for horn in F and orgel after a responsorium of the "Maulbronn-Lichtentahler Antiphonale" * ''...sine nomine super nominam...I'', ''Fantasia per organo, timpani e altri strumenti a percussione'' (1985) * Quartet for oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1960) * ''De visione resurrectionis'' for mixed choir, baritone solo, two groups of percussion and organ (1966) * ''Telos nomou'' for spreaker and instruments * ''Babel'' for speaker, five soloists and mixed choir * ''Canticum II'' – Canticum Canticorum (Song of Songs) for soloists, choir and instrumentalists * ''Canticum III'' – Canticum Caritatis "Wenn ich mit Menschen und Engelszungen redete" for soprano, two gongs and tamtam (1991)

Recordings

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...

, ''Das Orgelwerk'' (complete organ works), Emi-Classics *

Max Reger Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, as a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University ...

, ''Die großen Orgelwerke'', Emi-Classics * ''Orgelmusik der Familie Bach'', Wagnerorgel im Dom zu Brandenburg, ETERNA 8 26 869, 1977

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