Adelheid Geck

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Adelheid Geck (born January 14, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German music teacher , musicologist , composer and professor .

Life

Adelheid Geck was born in Berlin as the daughter of the businessman Karl Werner Geck and his wife, the concert singer Charlotte, née Böttger. In 1943 she was evacuated with her mother and her two sisters to Plau in Mecklenburg , where she spent the first 7 years of school. In 1957 she passed the Abitur at the Goethe-Gymnasium in Berlin-Lichterfelde . She then studied 8 semesters of school music and 4 semesters of composition with Max Baumann at the Berlin University of Music (1963 state examination for artistic teaching at secondary schools, 1966 the 2nd state examination for the office of the student council). She completed her studies in musicology ( Kurt Reinhard , Adam Adrio ) and geography (Georg Jensch, Jürgen Hövermann ) at the Free University of Berlin in 1970 with an examination of Leoš Janáček's folk songs with a doctorate in philosophy .

From 1971 to 1996 she was a lecturer at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences and a musician at the Catholic adult education center “Niels Stensen Haus” of the Hildesheim diocese in Lilienthal- Worphausen . She converted to the Catholic Church with Bishop Friedhelm Hofmann . From 1995 to 2014 she was cantor at the Catholic St. Paulus Church in Plau am See .

Adelheid Geck is co-founder and president of the Max Baumann Society, which was founded in Berlin in 1999 . In 1992 she was co-editor of the Festschrift for Baumann's 75th birthday.

Works (selection)

Books and writings

  • Aida by Giuseppe Verdi. Factory introduction. (= Series of publications Die Oper , about musical stage works.) Robert Linau-Verlag, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1973, ISBN 978-3-87484-227-3 .
  • The folk song material from Leoš Janáček. Analyzes of the structures, including Janáček's marginal notes and folk song studies (= research contributions to musicology, vol. 26). Bosse, Regensburg 1975, ISBN 978-3-7649-2119-4 (= dissertation, 1970)
  • Musical adult education (= music pedagogical library. 35) Verlag Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1987, ISBN 978-3-7959-0532-3 .
  • with Johannes Overath (Ed.): Te decet hymnus. Ceremony for Max Baumann on reaching the age of 75. Consociatio Internationalis Musicae Sacrae publicationes Romae , Sankt Augustin 1992.
  • Humble adoration - exultant hymn of praise. Anton Bruckner as prayer leader. Dominus-Verlag, Augsburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-940879-43-1 .
  • Max Baumann in the mirror of his writings and utterances - Documentary review in the year of his 100th birthday , 2017.
  • Max Baumann Festival in Kronach - Documentary review of the events on the 100th birthday of Max Baumann (1917–1999) , 2017.

Articles and essays

  • Max Baumann (1917–1999) and the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council. In: Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch 86. 2002, pp. 73–83.

Compositions

Motets (a capella):

  • Ave, crux spes unica , SATB ( Edith Stein ), Konsid-Musikverlag.
  • Before the day's light passes , SAB ( GL 663 ), Konsid-Musikverlag.
  • Because it is the light , SATB (Holy Scriptures and Book of Hours).
  • The Lübeck Martyrs , SATB (Renate Krüger).
  • A day that says to the other , SATB ( Gerhard Tersteegen ).
  • Prayer to St. Bernadette , SAB, Konsid-Musikverlag.
  • Singing joy over experience of God , SATB, Konsid-Musikverlag.
  • I ask the gentleman , SATB (Edith Stein), Konsid-Musikverlag.
  • Praise, praise and thanks , SATB ( Roswitha von Gandersheim ).
  • Maria hilf , SATB (Mariengebet), Konsid-Musikverlag.
  • Nada te turbe , SATB ( Teresa von Avila ), Konsid music publisher.
  • Pulchra quae videntur , SATB ( Niels Stensen ), Konsid-Musikverlag.

Cantatas and oratorios :

  • When the thorn bush burned , oratorio in honor of the three mystics from the Helfta monastery . Text design: Regine Correns.
  • Amor meus crucifixus est - From the life of St. Birgitta of Sweden . Text design: Regine Correns.
  • Ansgar , oratory in honor of St. Ansgar . Text design: Regine Correns.
  • God's commandment Gabriel , cantata for the Christmas season. Text design: Ingrid Nicolai.
  • Jesus, sis mihi Jesus , oratorio in honor of Niels Stensen. Text design: Regine Correns.
  • Clare , oratorio in honor of St. Clare of Assisi . Text design: Regine Correns.
  • Legend of St. Barbara , Cantata for December 4th. Text design: Regine Correns.
  • Memoria passionis , A Way of the Cross in Seven Stations in memory of Edith Stein. Text design: Regine Correns.
  • We saw its star , oratory in honor of the Three Kings . Text design: Regine Correns.

Honors

  • 2005: "Siemerling Social Award" from the Neubrandenburg Dreikönigsstiftung

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Adelheid Geck in the dissertation
  2. ↑ “One thinks that one hears Max Baumann's pupil above all in Ave, crux spes unica , incidentally, the bishopric of the Würzburg bishop Dr. Friedhelm Hofmann, with whom she converted ... “. In: Richard Mailänder , Church Music in the Archdiocese of Cologne , Issue 1 2016.
  3. ↑ Biography of Adelheid Geck in: Adelheid Geck: Humble Adoration - cheering song of praise. Anton Bruckner as prayer leader. Dominus-Verlag, Augsburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-940879-43-1 .
  4. ↑ About us. In: max-baumann-gesellschaft.de. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ The motets with texts by Edith Stein were heard for the consecration of the Edith Stein statue by Paul Nagel on the west facade of St. Peter's Basilica by Pope Benedict XVI. with the Figuralchor Cologne, conductor: Richard Mailander.
  6. ↑ Siemerling Social Prize
personal data
SURNAME Dude, Adelheid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geck-Böttger, Adelheid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin