Carl Orff Ensemble

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The Carl Orff Ensemble existed as an instrumental ensemble at the music school of the state capital Hanover from 1983 to 2013. The widow Liselotte Orff (1930-2012) authorized the ensemble in 1995 under the direction of Ulrich Ristau, whom she regarded as a faithful interpreter of Carl Orff's ideas for Carrying her husband's full name. After Ristau left in 2013, the ensemble was renamed Orff Ensemble in 2014 .

history

In 1983 Ulrich Ristau, a trained oboist and music teacher at the Hanover Music School, founded the first group to play classical Orff instruments (soprano glockenspiel, alto glockenspiel, soprano metallophone, alto / tenor metallophone, bass metallophone, soprano xylophone, Alto / tenor xylophone, bass xylophone, bell drums, bells, bell ring, wooden block drums, rattles, cymbals, triangles) as well as made music with recorders and harmonica based on the Orff-Schulwerk . In 1999 Ulrich Ristau established an extended cooperation between the Wilhelm Busch School (Hanover) and the city music school in Hanover.

The basic musical training of the primary school students (1st – 4th grade) as well as the lessons for the older children and young people in the ensemble are based on Orff's pedagogy , which enables quick and uncomplicated access to the instruments even without knowledge of music. Ristau rearranged the pieces proposed in the five-volume Orff Schulwerk to meet the needs of his students. Language and song, rhythm, movement and improvisation played key roles in the classroom. Ristau used the method of solmization and combined this sung scale with a scale visualized by means of hand signals according to John Curwen (1816–1880) based on the clock language of the French Aimé Paris (1798–1866). Ristau developed a "harmonica school and elementary music theory" for his work. Many female students remained members until they came of age. They learned to play all instruments and were also able to introduce other instruments (keyboard, side and wind instruments) as a soloist. In addition to the pieces by Carl Orff, the repertoire also included arrangements by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Johann Pachelbel and popular music. The ensemble played in changing line-ups with around 30 children and young people.

Numerous concert tours in Germany and in neighboring countries as far as Korea were made possible thanks to the support of the city of Hanover, the Hohner and Sonor companies and the Friends and Supporters of the Carl Orff Ensemble eV. The results of the work were published on several CDs.

The regular performances included the “Open Singing”, which took place over a hundred times in the Hannover- Ricklingen leisure center , and the traditional Christmas concert in cooperation with the Christmas aid of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung .

Ristau's work with the entire ensemble ended in 2013. The Carl Orff Ensemble no longer exists in its previous form. Ristau's commitment to the Wilhelm-Busch-Schule will gradually expire until 2018, the successor is unclear. In autumn 2014 Hilke Romann, deputy director of the Hanover Music School, took over the management of the age-graded children and youth groups of the Orff Ensemble, Eva Weber-Lück directs the adult group, and Volker Michaelis directs two harmonica groups.

Discography

  • Mosaik , Label Sound Star-Ton (1994)
  • Tandem , Label Sound Star-Ton (1998)
  • Tactful , Label Sound Star-Ton (2010)

Web links

literature

  • Ulrich Ristau: Harmonica school and elementary music theory. Suitable for class music in elementary schools and basic musical training in music schools . Self-published.
  • Werner Thomas: Musica Poetica. Shape and function of the Orff-Schulwerk . Tutzing 1977.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b SONOR thanks the director of the Carl Orff Ensemble Ulrich Ristau , Sonor News, June 6, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c International Recordings: German and Austrian Recordings ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Orff Schulwerk Discography  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.osdiscography.com