Bruno Oberhammer

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Bruno Oberhammer (born May 28, 1946 in Gaißau ) is an Austrian composer , organist and music teacher .

Life

After graduating from the Humanist Gymnasium in Bregenz in 1965, he studied music education , piano, organ, composition , history, philosophy / psychology and musicology in Austria, Switzerland and Germany . He also completed many years of organ studies with Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and Konrad Philipp Schuba , which was followed by master classes with Alain Curtis , Ludwig Doerr , Flor Peeters , Pierre Segond and Bernard Lagace .

From 1977 until his retirement, Oberhammer worked as a professor for organ and composition at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory in Feldkirch and as an organ virtuoso and organ improviser.

Works

Compositions

  • Study - chamber music for string quartet, flute and vibraphone- Psalm 103 - for soprano and organ
  • Three songs - based on poems by Eugen Andergassen for soprano and organ
  • Dear God, I want to be many pilgrims - based on texts from the "Book of Hours" by Rainer Maria Rainer Maria Rilke for mezzo-soprano or baritone, oboe, B-flat clarinet, violoncello and harp, 1975
  • Piece for flute solo
  • Three liturgical chants - for cantor and organ
  • Litanies - oratorio based on texts by Franz von Assisi and Teilhard de Chardin for alto, tenor and baritone, mixed choir and large orchestra
  • I want me to be at home - motet for mixed choir and organ (on a song by Heinrich Laufenberg )
  • Tokkata on "O Savior, tear open the heavens" - for organ
  • About God and Man - Motet for four- to eight-part mixed choir a cappella after words by Angelus Silesius ("Cherubinischer Wandermann")
  • Four Metamorphoses on BACH - for 2 flutes, 2 violins, violoncello and harpsichord
  • Deutsche Messe - for cantor, choir and organ, 1994
  • Aphorisms - for flute solo
  • Piece for flute and percussion
  • Psalm triptych - for soprano and organ
  • Missa brevissima - for four to eight-part mixed choir and organ in memoriam E. and G. Andergassen
  • Beatitudines - (after Matthew 5, 1-12) for soprano and orchestra
  • Night, more than light night - Christmas singing for soprano, mezzo-soprano and organ

Sound carrier

  • Josef Rheinberger : [Organ sonata. No. 8]. IN: Organ music from Schwarzach: Bruno Oberhammer at the Rieger organ; a prod. of the ORF regional studio Vorarlberg; in collaboration with the parish and community of Schwarzach. - Bregenz: ORF regional studio Vorarlberg; Schwarzach: Parish, Parish, 1999
  • Josef Rheinberger: [Organ sonata. No. 8]. IN: Organ music from Schwarzach: Bruno Oberhammer at the Rieger organ; a prod. of the ORF regional studio Vorarlberg; in collaboration with the parish and community of Schwarzach. - Bregenz: ORF regional studio Vorarlberg; Schwarzach: Parish, Parish, 1999
  • Heinrich Schneikart: Variations a. Fugue about the out of deep need I cry to you; ORF 1997
  • Bruno Oberhammer: Organ concert in Bartholomäberg. 2004 Stand Montafon / ORF-Landesstudio Vorarlberg 2007975, CD (works by Frescobaldi, Storace, Pasquini, Froberger, Poglietti, FT Richter, Murschauer, Haydn, Muffat, Oberhammer on the organ of the parish church Bartholomäberg ).

Publications

  • Organ and organ playing in the 16th century . Conference report Innsbruck June 9 to 12, 1977 by Walter Salmen (preface), Arnfried Edler, Michael Radulescu, Bruno Oberhammer, Egon Krauss, Hans Klotz, Jürgen Ahrend, Ewa Smulikowska, Albert Knoepfli; Helbling Verlagsgesellschaft mbH 1978 ISBN 3850610306

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ vol.at: High distinction for Professor Bruno Oberhammer , accessed on November 20, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Oberhammer, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, organist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Gaissau