Erna Woll

Erna Woll ( born March 23, 1917 in St. Ingbert, † April 7, 2005 in Friedberg ) was a German composer, church musician and author.

Life and work

Erna Woll graduated from 1936 to 1938 study of Protestant church music with Wolfgang Fortner in Heidelberg and from 1940 to 1944 to study composition with Joseph Haas and Gustav Geierhaas at the Munich Academy of Music. Simultaneously, she studied music education. During this time, she converted to Catholicism. From 1946 to 1948 she studied Catholic church music at the Cologne Music Academy, among others, Heinrich Lemacher, Theodor Bernhard Rehmann and Hermann Schroeder. From 1950 to 1962 she was a school musician at the teachers training college in White Horn, 1962-1969 Lecturer and 1969-1972 Honorary Professor at the College of Education at Augsburg. In 1972, she went into early retirement due to illness.

The catalog of works by Erna Woll includes over 200 works, preferably solo songs, choral songs, motets and cantatas choir. Special attention she devoted to the music genre New Sacred Song ( NGL).

Erna Woll was a member of the business community music eV, the Ecumenical lyricists and composers group of plant community music eV and the AG Music in the Evangelical Youth eV, today lyricists and composers group CLOCK.

Her estate is located in the Bavarian State Library.

Awards and Honors

Works

  • Songs of Love for medium voice and piano, Tonger (1944 /55)
  • Sweet strings match. Triptych for mixed choir and tenor solo, Tonger (1960 /65)
  • Missa choralis for mixed or equal voices, congregation and organ. Schwann (1958 /60)
  • We believe. Ordinary for mixed or equal voices, congregation and organ, Fidula (1965 )
  • Spiritus domini. Proper for Pentecost for choir and orchestra (1963 )
  • Seven Pounds I should like have. Cycle for solo voice, mixed choir and instruments, Helbling (1966 )
  • Requiem for the living. for mixed choir and instruments after texts by Marie Luise Kaschnitz inter alia, Möseler (1975 )
  • Four motets. texts by Gertrud von le Fort (1975 /76), South German music publisher
  • Search - listening - praise. Orgeltriptychon, Strube, 1985
  • How to talk with you. Ecumenical Marian hymns, Strube, 1986
  • Augsburg Organ booklet. Strube, 1987
  • Sola gratia. Strube, 1988
  • Invocations. Strube, 1988
  • Christmas Gospel according to Luke. Strube, 1988
  • Children ask for Mary. Strube, 1988
  • About the pain threshold V. 1989
  • Women around Jesus. Strube, 1990
  • Chants for Orthodox worship for equal voices. 1990, dedicated to the Segiuschor Weingarten ( 88250 )
  • How to sing and say. Strube, 1991
  • The Well-Beloved, the Niegeliebten. Strube, 1991
  • Born Miriam. Five Meditations for Organ, Pro Organo, 1991
  • Well past is the dark night. Strube, 1991
  • And ... Maria. Strube, 1992
  • Sound tracks on the organ. Böhm, 1992
  • Contemplating on flute and organ. Böhm, 1992
  • Pre-transition. Mosaic for Organ, Schott 1993
  • Where are you, God. Strube, 1995
  • Magic wishes. Furore, 1995
  • The 80th Psalm. Strube, 1995
  • Ave Maria tender. Strube, 1997
  • It is the Lord of glory. Strube, 1997
  • From the high sky. Möseler 2002
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