Jürg Baur

Jürg Baur ( born November 11, 1918 in Dusseldorf, † January 31, 2010 ) was a German composer.

Life

Jürg Baur came early with a variety of musical styles into contact. The existing in the home sheet music offered the young Jürg Baur, who also received eight years, the first piano lessons with Adelheid Kroeber and later by Albert Thate organ lessons, the opportunity to intense, with piano works by Johann Sebastian Bach and piano pieces by Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky Paul Hindemith, Ernst Krenek and Ernst Toch deal that encouraged him to compose. His String Quartet in D Minor ( 1935), premiered shortly before graduating from high school in 1937 at Düsseldorf Hindenburg Gymnasium by Prisca Quartet there partially, Baur paved the way in the composition class Philipp Jarnachs at the Academy of Music and Dance Cologne, he at the in the autumn of 1937 began his studies. He also studied both piano with Karl Hermann Pillney and organ with Michael Schneider.

Due to conscription for military service in 1939 had Jürg Baur interrupt his studies after four semesters, took it after the war, during which time he had married in 1944 Dr. Hilde Wolf Stieg, and returning from Soviet captivity again and was already in the course of 1946 lecturer in Music Theory at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Dusseldorf. In the same year he passed his state examinations for music theory and piano; a year later he finished the composition studies with the completion of the artist diploma exam. His 1948 begun musicology at Karl- Gustav Fellerer at the University of Cologne, he joined Although, 1951, but the dissertation in-process was different, extensive activities victim: he was next to his teaching cantor at St. Paul's Church in Dusseldorf sub Rath (1952 -66 ) as well as several years incidental music writer for the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus the era of Gustaf. The end of his exams was the church music - A-exam in 1954. 1959-66 Baur was a guest lecturer at the Evangelical School of Church Music in the Rhineland.

1955 Baur received a grant from the Robert Schumann Prize of the City Dusseldorf, 1956 the prize of the young generation Recklinghausen and a year later the Düsseldorf Robert Schumann Prize in appreciation of his complete works. The most important and most prestigious award was the Rome Fellowship from the German Academy Villa Massimo 1960. 1965 Jürg Baur succeed Joseph Neyses as director of the Düsseldorf Robert Schumann Conservatory and in 1969 was appointed professor. During this time a trip to the USSR fall on behalf of the German Music Council, a second Villa Massimo scholarship (both 1968) and the award of the Order of Merit 1st class (1969).

1971 took over the Baur composition class Bernd Alois Zimmermann's at the Cologne Music Academy, which he headed until 1990 ( after his retirement as a teaching order); an appointment at the Munich Musikhochschule, he refused in 1975. In 1979, a second trip was followed in the USSR before it a year later stayed as a guest of honor at the Villa Massimo and 1984 participated as guest of honor at the Moscow International Music Festival. 1990 Jürg Baur was awarded the Order of Merit of North Rhine -Westphalia, in 1994 the Music Prize of the city of Duisburg. Since 1973 Baur is a member of the evaluation committee of the GEMA, which he joined in 1947; he is single and since 1988 Honorary Member of the German Music Council since 1977. He was also from 1971 to 1993 first chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalian Association VDMK (now DTKV ) and 1962-1997 first Chairman of the VDMK district association Dusseldorf, both of whose honorary president he is now. 1997 Jürg Baur received the Music Prize of the Gerhard- Maasz Foundation for his work as a whole as well as the Ring of Honour of the German Schubert Society.

Works

Jürg Baur has composed for all genres of music. However, he was late for musical theater: at age 87 he composed his first opera: the novel of the bass, after the novella by Anton Chekhov ( libretto by Michael Leinert ). The premiere took place on 24 November 2005 in Dusseldorf rather than commissioned by the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the Robert -Schumann -Hochschule in Dusseldorf.

The 90 - year-old composer has last for a Heine evening at the University of Memphis, Tennessee / USA, the Heine poem moonlight ( night is on the strange ways ) Composed: world premiere on November 18, 2006 in the Harris Concert Hall with Susan Owen - Leinert, soprano, accompanied by Dirk Wedmann the wing.

Selection of major works

• Music by Robert Schumann for large orchestra
• Giorno per giorno by Giuseppe Ungaretti for large orchestra (in memoriam Bernd Alois Zimmermann)
• Concerto Romano for Oboe and Orchestra
• 3.Streichquartett
• Et respice finem for String Quartet
• Quintetto sereno for wind quintet
• Counterpoints 77 on the Musical Offering by Johann Sebastian Bach for flute, English horn and bassoon
• Ballata Romana for Clarinet and Piano
• Aphorisms for piano
• Meditazione sopra Gesualdo for Organ
• The flower of Sharon on texts from the " Song of Songs " for mixed choir
• From the deep inner song for medium voice and piano
• Perché. oratory
• The novel of the bass chamber opera based on Chekhov

Baur's works appear mainly published by Breitkopf & Härtel, since 1990 also focus in publishing Dohr Cologne.

Discography (selection)

• Jürg Baur - The piano work ( with Oliver Drechsel ); Publisher telos tls024
• With changing keys, piano songs (with Matthias Güdelhöfer and Oliver Drechsel ); Verlag Dohr DCD 008
• Jürg Baur - Organ Works I (with Reinhard Kluth ); 00 012 KM, K & M Records, a label of: KrömerMusic, 54317 Gusterath,
• Organ Works ( with Martin Herchenröder ); Publisher Koch / Schwann, 3-1846-2 H1
• Orchestral works; Thorofon, CTH 2270