Siegmund Goldhammer

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Siegmund Goldhammer (born March 8, 1932 in Bielen ) is a German composer and conductor .

biography

Goldhammer was born in Bielen near Nordhausen in what is now Thuringia in 1932 . During his childhood he received piano lessons. He witnessed the bombing raid on Nordhausen on April 4, 1945.

He received his further musical training between 1949 and 1952 at the vocational schools for music in Sangerhausen, Eisleben, Hettstedt and Weimar in the subjects of trumpet, double bass and piano. From 1952 to 1962 he worked as an orchestral musician.

From 1962 to 1967 he studied composition with Wolfram Heicking and Günter Kochan as well as conducting with Heinz Fricke and Willy Niepold at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin .

After graduation, he headed for several years the orchestra of the Guards Regiment "Feliks Dzerzhinsky" the Ministry of State Security of the GDR. With this ensemble, in addition to symphonic brass music on radio in the GDR, he produced almost all national anthems in his own instrumentation, a selection of which appeared in the record series "Hymns of the World" on the ETERNA label of VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin. In 1975 he was appointed music director, in 1981 he officially resigned prematurely for health reasons. He was then observed by the MfS until the political change .

Since 1982 he has been working as a freelance composer and arranger.

From 1982 he held a teaching position for conducting at the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin. In addition, until 1990 he headed the “Central Working Group for Brass Music” at the Central House for Cultural Work of the GDR in Leipzig.

From 1990 to 2001 he was a member of the Borgsdorfer Kreis, a composers' association that advocates the promotion of concert brass music. Siegmund Goldhammer has been a member of the German Composers' Association since 1990 .

Works

Goldhammer's main focus is on orchestral music, especially in the wind symphonic field. Applied music, entertainment compositions and chamber music works line the catalog of works.

Orchestral works

  • Dance scenes for orchestra (1965)
  • Concertante overture for wind instruments, timpani and percussion (1969)
  • Symphonic March for Wind Orchestra (1972)
  • Dance episodes for wind orchestra (1973)
  • Rhapsody for wind orchestra using historical songs (1974)
  • Concert for symphonic wind orchestra (1975)
  • Rhythmic overture for wind instruments, timpani and percussion (1976)
  • Symphony for wind orchestra (1978)
  • Rhapsodie'80 for wind orchestra (1980)
  • Thuringian Fantasy for wind orchestra (1983)
  • Hymn for orchestra [also for wind orchestra] (1984)
  • Rhapsody "Reiseimpressionen" for wind orchestra (1985)
  • “Rapsodia Drammatica” for wind orchestra (1989)
  • Baroque suite for orchestra on themes by Georg Friedrich Handel [also for wind orchestra] (1992)
  • Theme and variations for wind orchestra (1993)
  • Concert prologue for orchestra [also wind orchestra] (1996)
  • Prelude for wind orchestra (2003)
  • Funeral music "Seelenruh" for orchestra (2010)
  • Saxon Serenade for wind orchestra (2012)
  • Turning points 1-9-8-9 [Dramatic Rhapsody] for wind orchestra (2014)

Solo works

  • Concertino for horn and orchestra No. 1 (1967) and No. 2 (1988)
  • Concertino for clarinet and orchestra (1968)
  • Concertino for piano and wind orchestra No. 1 (1970) and No. 2 (1991)
  • Ballad for flugelhorn and string orchestra (1979)
  • Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Orchestra (1987)
  • Capriccio Brillante for trombone and wind orchestra (2003)
  • Concerto for trombone and orchestra (2006)

Several solo instruments

  • Concerto for wind quintet, brass, double bass and percussion (1972)
  • Capriccio for oboe, bassoon and string orchestra [also for wind orchestra] (1985)

Chamber music

  • 5 piano pieces for children (1964)
  • Duo for trumpet and piano (1964)
  • Theme and variations for piano, percussion and double bass (1965)
  • Wind quintet No. 1 (1965)
  • Trio for violin, horn and piano (1966)
  • Capriccio for horn and piano (1966)
  • Caprice for trumpet and piano (1975)
  • Fantasia Concertante for trumpet and piano (1984)
  • Capriccio for oboe, bassoon and piano (1985)
  • 5 bagatelles for tuba and piano (1988)
  • Dance episodes for 3 clarinets and bass clarinet (1991)
  • Wind quintet No. 2 (1991)
  • "Windspiele" for brass quintet (1999)
  • Capriccio brillante for trombone and piano (2004)
  • Funeral music "Seelenruh" for string quartet [also for orchestra] (2010)
  • Chamber concert for trombone and string quartet (2012)

Vocal music

  • 3 songs based on texts by Werner Hasselmann for voice and piano (1963)
  • For Mikis Theodorakis. Chanson for voice and piano (1969), text: Wolfgang König
  • Life is open to you. Song for voice and wind orchestra [piano] (1982), text: Helmut Stöhr
  • A rose for the grave. Song for baritone and piano (1994), text: Werner Gorges
  • Children's dreams. Song for choir [soprano solo] and wind orchestra (1999), text: Werner Gorges

Awards

  • 1980 Theodor Körner Prize
  • 1988 Trade Union Art Prize
  • 1997 Hoffmann von Fallersleben Medal
  • 2012 Gerhard Weiser badge of the Federal Association of German Music Associations

literature

  • Altmann , Frank (Ed.): Concise Tonkünstlerlexikon in 2 volumes. Heinrichshofens Verlag Wilhelmshaven, 15th edition 1974, vol. 1, ISBN 3-7959-0083-2 , p. 240.
  • Egner, Herman X .: Siegmund Goldhammer - a composer of the Borgsdorfer Kreis. In: Clarino 3/94, p. 202.
  • German Composers Association eV (Hrsg.): Composers of the present. A manual ; ConBrio-Verlagsgesellschaft Regensburg, 5th edition 2000, p. 336.
  • Reichardt, Hendrik: Demanding music with an optimistic attitude - the Berlin composer Siegmund Goldhammer In: Music for reading 03/2007, pp. 16-17.
  • “Because I love life” - 80th birthday interview. In: Eurowinds 2/2012 (pp. 28–30) and 4/2012 (pp. 26–28).

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personal data
SURNAME Goldhammer, Siegmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielen , Thuringia