Berthold Buehrer

Berthold Bührer (born June 27, 1908 in Amorbach ; † June 1, 1996 there ) was a German music teacher and organist in Amorbach.

Life

Berthold Bührer was born as the son of the wood manufacturer Rudolf Bührer and his wife Eleonore. He first attended the Latin school in Amorbach and then the Progymnasium in Miltenberg . From 1926 he was a student at the Municipal Music School in Aschaffenburg and began studies at the Bavarian State Conservatory for Music in Würzburg in 1929 , where one of his teachers was Hans Schindler . In 1938 he graduated.

In 1934 Bührer took the position of organist and cantor at the abbey church in Amorbach . In the following years he took care of the music landscape in Amorbach and its immediate surroundings.
With his wife Toni, who was a qualified music teacher, he leads a scene in “Haus Musica”, their home, that revolved around music , art history , metaphysics and philosophy . Many well-known personalities of the time were guests there, but their music students also came and went there. In 1939, a small organ (Opus 216) by Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen was installed in the “Haus Musica” .

At the harvest festival in 1994, Berthold Bührer retired at the age of 86 as organist on the Stumm organ of the abbey church.

In 2006 the daughter Uta Veronika Friederich-Bührer sold the organ from the "Haus Musica" to the Organ Museum Valley .

plant

Organist (sixty years at the Amorbach Abbey), chamber musician known throughout Europe .
First honorary head of the traffic office in Amorbach.
Initiator of numerous events such as concerts, music days, music groups.

Honors

Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (October 20, 1970)
Title Church Music Director of the Evangelical Church (1974)
Culture Prize of the City of Amorbach (1984)

Web links

Commons : Berthold Bührer - Collection of Images

Gifted artist and idea generator ; Main echo

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Bernhard Springer: Gifted artist and source of ideas . In: Main-Echo . 2008 ( online [accessed November 25, 2015]).
↑ SixtusLampl: The ideal small organ . Schlossverlag Valley, Valley 2007, DNB 984757384 , p. 14 & 15 .
↑ Office of the Federal President

personal data
SURNAME	Buehrer, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German music teacher and organist on the Stumm organ in the Abbey Church of Amorbach
DATE OF BIRTH	June 27, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Amorbach
DATE OF DEATH	June 1, 1996
Place of death	Amorbach

[BSME-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Bernhard Springer: Gifted artist and source of ideas . In: Main-Echo . 2008 ( online [accessed November 25, 2015]).

[2] SixtusLampl: The ideal small organ . Schlossverlag Valley, Valley 2007, DNB 984757384 , p. 14 & 15 .

[3] Office of the Federal President