Bernhard Krol
Bernhard Krol (born June 24, 1920 in Berlin ; † April 17, 2013 in Kemnat , Ostfildern ) was a German horn player and composer . He was a horn player with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra . He was also active as a composer. Although he studied composition with Josef Rufer in Vienna , Krol used the tonal system ; his compositions are more in the tradition of Max Reger or Paul Hindemith . Bernhard Krol has written numerous works especially for wind instrumentation.
Life
Bernhard Krol attended a humanistic grammar school in Berlin . There he also studied French horn with J. Koller. In Vienna he studied composition with Josef Rufer and horn with Gottfried von Freiberg . He began to write at the age of eleven. After studying music in Vienna and Berlin, he was horn player in the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera and with the Berlin Philharmonic from 1945 to 1962 and with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1962 to 1979. He volunteered, for example, as the jury chairman of the ARD international music competition or as a member of the music advisory board at the German Cecilia Association . In 1990 he was appointed professor.
Bernhard Krol was a composer who put a large part of his artistic creativity into the service of church music . A large part of his 180 or so compositions - organ works, choral works, masses, orchestral and chamber music - are dedicated to church music.
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (March 31, 1981)
- New Year's Eve , Commander with a star, by Benedict XVI. (2007)
literature
- Bernhard Krol. Thematic index of the compositions 1948 - 1985. Hamburg, 1985. ISBN 3-88979-008-9 .
- Bernhard Krol. All good things come in thirteen. Life path of a musician. Schneverdingen, 2004. ISBN 3-88979-106-9 .
Web links
- Works by and about Bernhard Krol in the catalog of the German National Library
- www.bernhardkrol.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.zeit-des-gedenkens.de/Trauerbeispiel/Bernhard-Krol
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krol, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German horn player and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th April 2013 |
| Place of death | Kemnat (Ostfildern) |