Bernard Huijbers
Bernard Maria Huijbers (born July 24, 1922 in Rotterdam , † April 15, 2003 in Espeillac , France ) was a Dutch composer , church musician and (until 1973) priest and Jesuit .
For a long time he was a music teacher at the Jesuit College in Amsterdam . He also became known in Germany for his setting of lyrics by Huub Oosterhuis , who was also a Jesuit at the time. Her songs are sung to this day. In the early 1960s, Huijbers' music in the Dutch language was mainly influenced by what he had already found in his French fellow Jesuit, peer and musician Joseph Gelineau (1920–2008).
In the 1980s, the collaboration between the two former Jesuits Huijbers and Oosterhuis failed. Huijbers could neither find himself in texts as you and God nor in biblical texts; from then on his untheistic and unchristian spirituality was shaped by the universe , by the entirety , the star dust and the existence that comprises all life on earth. He and his wife withdrew to the south of France, to a farm they called Contre l'Église ('Against the Church'). There he still wrote many songs for which he and others wrote the lyrics in his mind.
For Huijbers and Oosterhuis, they parted ways. Since then, Oosterhuis has also written hundreds of songs that were set to music by Antoine Oomen (* 1945) and Tom Löwenthal (* 1954), two of Huijber's most musical students.
Compositions im Gotteslob 2013
- No. 422 "I stand before you empty-handed, sir"
- No. 557 "Be present here, light of our life (litany of the presence of God)"
Books (selection)
- St. Kapistran Mass (1955) [Music: B. Huijbers et al .; Texts: HP; trans. from Dutch]
- You are the breath of my songs (chants by Huub Oosterhuis and Bernard Huijbers; translated into German by Peter Pawlowsky). Freiburg, Christophorus-Verlag, 1976. ISBN 3-419-50567-1
- Right among us . Texts: Huub Oosterhuis. Bernard Huijbers [et al.] (Music): Chants for Advent and Christmas ; Antoine Oomen (music): A little Christmas oratorio . Amsterdam, Stichting Leerhuis & Liturgie, 1993. CD & book
Web links
- Works by and about Bernard Huijbers in the catalog of the German National Library
- Portrait of the composer on the side of the Bonn Abbey Choir.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huijbers, Bernard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huijbers, Bernard Maria (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch composer, church musician and Jesuit |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rotterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 2003 |
| Place of death | Espeillac , France |