Bruno Grusnick

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Bruno Grusnick (born October 18, 1900 in Spandau ; † August 4, 1992 ) was a German musicologist and church musician.

Life

Grusnick came from Berlin and had already got to know the musical endeavors of the youth movement as a teenager and student . From 1919 to 1925 he studied music and musicology as well as German , English and sports . In the field of music and musicology, Hermann Kretzschmar , Max Friedlaender , Johannes Wolf , Curt Sachs , Georg Schünemann and Wilibald Gurlitt were among his teachers.

April 1, 1928, he came as a teacher to Lübeck to Ernestine School . Here he founded the Lübeck singing and playing group, which was shaped by the youth music movement , on May 4, 1928, for joint leisure activities through sports, hiking and making music together. But even in the founding year there were also public appearances: for example at the folk dance festival in the Wallanlagen and on October 21 a first sacred concert. Soon he got to know the pastor of the Jakobikirche Axel Werner Kühl , who was also appointed in 1928. In 1930 he became cantor at St. Jakobi, a position he was to hold until 1972. As early as the next year he met Hugo Distler , who in 1931 took up the position of organist at the church on the mediation of Günther Ramin . In close cooperation, Grusnick performed numerous of Distler's choral works and thus helped him to achieve a breakthrough with appearances at music festivals and music days throughout Germany and Europe, especially at the Kasseler Musiktage in 1935. In February 1931, Kühl, Distler and Grusnick introduced the then new form of worship, the Musical Vespers in St. Jakobi, which soon became an established tradition. The main focus of Grusnick's choral work, in addition to the modernist Distlers, are the baroque composers Heinrich Schütz , Johann Sebastian Bach and soon also Buxtehude . As early as 1931, Grusnick made several study trips to Uppsala , where he worked in the Düben collection of the university library there, researched and He was to be significantly involved in the coming decades and undertook source research on Buxtehude's vocal works. As a result, he published eleven choral cantatas and a solo cantata by Buxtehude in the Bärenreiter-Verlag , as well as sacred concerts by Christoph Bernhard , which have been preserved in the collection. He was one of the most important editors of Buxtehude's vocal works.

After military service and imprisonment from 1939 to 1946, he returned to Lübeck. In 1948 he was appointed church music director. In 1949 he established the tradition of playing Bach's St. Matthew Passion in St. Jakobi from three different galleries. In 1952 he was the overall director of the 29th German Bach Festival of the New Bach Society , which took place in Lübeck. In the same year he brought the Hugo Distler archive to Lübeck. He made his last trip to Uppsala in 1986 and published a printable copy of the Buxtehude cantata Nun danket alle Gott in 1990 .

Honors

Works

  • A Buxtehude trip to Upsala in: Der Wagen 1932, pp. 88–93
  • Dietrich Buxtehude: life u. Works , Bärenreiter Kassel 1937
  • Hugo Distler , Lübeck 1982
  • Hugo Distler and Hermann Grabner , extended special print from Musica (1964), 18th year, H. 2
  • How Hugo Distler became a Jakobiorganist in Lübeck , special edition from Musik und Kirche (1958), 28th year, no.3
  • Alec Hyatt King / Bruno Grusnick ( transl. ): Mozart in the mirror of history: 1756–1956. A critical u. bibliographic study , Bärenreiter Kassel 1956
  • 29th German Bach Festival of the New Bach Society from 5. – 8. September 1952 in Lübeck - Bach Festival Book , New Bach Society Kassel 1952
  • The dowel collection. An attempt at their chronological order , in: Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning , xlviii (1966), 70

literature

  • Rolf Saltzwedel / Klaus D. Koch: Festschrift for Bruno Grusnick: for his 80th birthday , Hänssler Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-7751-0637-5
  • Kurt Gudewill : Bruno Grusnick 90 years old . In: Music and Church 61 (1991) 1, p. 49.
  • Bruno Grusnick: (1900-1992); small festschrift for the 100th birthday , Lübeck 2000, ISBN 3-933652-12-X
  • Music and Church, Volume 70.Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel, 2000, p. 350.
  • Barbara Grusnick: In memoriam Bruno Grusnick (1900–1992) , supplement to: Ton Koopman: Dietrich Buxtehude - Opera Omnia V , Challenge Classics 2007
  • Konrad Dittrich : "Sing to the Lord a new song ..." 80 years ago Bruno Grusnick founded the Lübeck singing and playing group , in: Der Wagen 2010 ISBN 978-3-87302-113-6 , pp. 18-30.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lübecker Nachrichten obituary
  2. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Grusnick, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and church musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Spandau
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1992