Burkhard Mohr (composer)

Burkhard Mohr (born May 26, 1955 in Gambach ) is a German organist and composer of modern classical music.

Life

Burkhard Mohr received his first music lessons from his father Erwin Mohr, from Reinhardt Menger and Hans Georg Bertram . Kurt Hessenberg and Heinz Werner Zimmermann were among his teachers at the Frankfurt University of Music . This was followed by composition studies with Hans Ulrich Engelmann and at the Darmstadt summer courses for new music in 1974 and 1976. He then took on activities as a church musician and lecturer / teacher in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden . Since 2018 he has been a freelance composer in the field of modern classical music. Mohr is a member of the German Composers' Association. He is married to the organist and conductor Petra Mohr.

Works (selection)

• Christmas story for children's choir (1985, Strube Verlag)
• Jesus, my joy, partita for guitar solo (Strube Verlag)
• Panel organ suite for organ (1996, Strube Verlag)
• Joplin Suite for Organ (1997 Strube Verlag)
• New Year's Eve Suite for Brass (2000, Strube Verlag)
• St. John Passion for solos, choir, orchestra (Mspt. 2004)
• Clavier-Zier, piano pieces, (2010, self-published)
• Sound and electricity for organ and live electronics (Mspt. 2010)
• Keys and Loops for piano and live electronics (Mspt. 2013)
• Pieps for organ positive (2016, Strube Verlag)
• Festive and cool for trumpet and organ (2018, Strube Verlag)
• Kurdish Marielle, Chamber Opera (Mspt. 2018)
• Sinfonia variata for chamber orchestra (Mspt. 2019, WP 2020)

Discography

• A bit like soul, jazz improvisations on the organ, Melisma Verlag Wiesbaden 1994, OPUS 7091-2

Social channels

The American organist Carson Cooman has a YouTube account on which titles by Burkhard Mohr are published.

Publications

• Burkhard Mohr: Composers of the Present. ConBrio, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-932581-34-2 .

Web links

• Burkhard Mohr's website