Clytus Gottwald

Clytus Gottwald ( born November 20, 1925 in Bad Salzbrunn ) is a German composer, choral conductor and musicologist.

Life and work

Gottwald studied singing with Gerhard Hüsch and choral conducting with Kurt Thomas. In 1961 he received his doctorate in Frankfurt with a thesis on the renaissance composer Johannes Ghiselin. As a musicologist, he edited numerous scholarly catalogs of music manuscripts.

As a choral conductor Gottwald was initially 1954-1958 assistant of Marcel Couraud. From 1958 to 1970 he was cantor at the Evangelical St. Paul's Church in Stuttgart, where he managed the St. Paul Choir. In 1960, Gottwald, the Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, a 16 - to 18 -voice professional vocal ensemble, as the repertoire focuses equally had classical vocal polyphony as well as contemporary music and created more than 80 premieres and first performances of choral works. He directed the ensemble until its dissolution in 1990.

As a composer, he drew attention to himself, in which he on vocal composition by Alban Berg, Hector Berlioz, Claude Debussy, Franz Liszt, Gustav Mahler, Giacomo Puccini, the method of composition by Gyorgy Ligeti particularly through processing for up to 16-voice mixed choir a cappella Maurice Ravel, Richard Wagner, Anton Webern, Hugo Wolf and the other end to apply. In particular, the processing of Gustav Mahler's Rückert song I am lost to the world ( 1985) reached through the use of the Swedish choral conductor Eric Ericson international recognition and was nachgesungen by numerous top choirs.

In 2009 he received the Culture Prize of Baden- Württemberg for his lifework, 2012 in Schwäbisch Gmünd the price of European church music for his groundbreaking ideas for the creation and placement clergyman music.

Discography

As a choral conductor

  • Atelier Schola Cantorum. New vocal music. Cadenza 800891-900. 10 CDs.
  • Dufay, Ockeghem, Josquin, Brumel, Isaac: Musica mensurabilis. Bayer Records 100271-274. 4 CDs. ( Re-release: .. O Magnum Mysterium Brilliant Claasics 94267 4 CDs).

As a composer

  • Clytus Gottwald: transcriptions. SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart, Marcus Creed. Carus 83 181.
  • Clytus Gottwald: vocal edits. Saarbrucken Chamber Choir, George Green. Carus 83 182. , 2005.
  • Choral arrangements by Clytus Gottwald. The Rudolfus Choir, Ralph Allwood. Signum Classics SIGCD102. , 2007.

Writings

  • Johannes Ghiselin - John Verbonnet: Still Critical study of the problem of their identity. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1962, DNB 451 628 403 (also Diss Univ. Frankfurt 1961).
  • " Hallelujah" and the theory of communicative action. Selected writings. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-608-91923-6.
  • Looking back at the progress. An Autobiography. Carus -Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-89948-117-4.
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