Eberhard Kummer

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E. Kummer with a historical beggar costume and a Hungarian hurdy-gurdy. Carinthian Summer, 2003, Ossiach Abbey

Eberhard Kummer (born August 2, 1940 in Krems ; † July 12, 2019 in Vienna ) was an Austrian concert singer , lawyer and expert on music of the Middle Ages from Vienna.

Life

Eberhard Kummer was born in Krems an der Donau in 1940 as the youngest of four children. His father was a violinist at the local hospital, his musically gifted mother came from a family of artists.

1966 at the University of Vienna as Dr. jur. after receiving his doctorate, he was director of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna from 1976 to 1989, then Ministerialrat in the Ministry of Science. At the same time, as a fully trained bass baritone, he developed a versatile concert career with lieder, cantatas, masses and operas. Over time he specialized in the music of the Middle Ages, especially in epic poetry and song poetry from the Upper German-Austrian cultural area since the 12th century. Mainly because of this he has become internationally known. During his performances he accompanied himself with a hurdy-gurdy , lap harp or guitar . Most recently he has dealt with the musical reawakening of the Trossinger lyre . The preoccupation with this archaic instrument is a consequence of his earlier examination of the music of antiquity (performance of the complete Odyssey , ancient epics ) and serves as a prerequisite for his expected interpretations of the Odes of Horace . Eberhard Kummer appeared in Europe, the USA and Africa, at congresses and scientific events as well as at universities. Kummer has appeared several times in radio and television broadcasts on ORF and his work is reflected in an extensive discography.

Eberhard Kummer - a passionate mountaineer - was married to the alto Elisabeth Guy-Kummer. He has four grown children.

Since 2003 he has lived and worked with the musician and singer Ulrike Bergmann, who also specializes in early music. Together with her, he founded the association "Kultur in der Scheune e." In 2013 in the small village of Ermetzhof in Middle Franconia. V. “, where exquisite early music performances are performed once a month in an intimate setting, often in combination with literature or other appropriate artistic areas.

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In addition to Eberhard Kummer's work as a classical song and opera singer, there have been three main focuses in his work for more than three decades:

Interpretation of the historical folk song in Austria and Bavaria: Already in the early 1970s, Eberhard Kummer recorded numerous works from the Krems albums and other Viennese songs for the ORF (Radio Wien, Karl Grell ) that were hardly received in Vienna. In 1975 the Alt-Wiener Volkslieder appeared on long-playing records and subsequently also on CDs. These settings, presented in concerts and recordings, enlivened the folk music scene. Furthermore, Kummer dealt with popular ballads and moritats, which are typical songs of drone music. In doing so, he contributed to the revival of petty singing and the moritats that were widespread in Vienna in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Hurdy-gurdy renaissance: The revival of the hurdy-gurdy game or the Central European variant of drone music is inextricably linked with the name Eberhard Kummer. At the end of the 1970s he happened to receive a (Hungarian) hurdy-gurdy, an instrument that was almost forgotten in Austria at this time. He began to play it and use it as an accompanying instrument and learned the French crank technique from the Corrette school. At that time, Kummer was the first in Austria to reinstate the snar as a rhythmic element and master the so-called four stroke. His technique inspired many younger musicians and his experiences influenced the instrument makers, for example Arnold Lobisser, the founder of the leading instrument making school in Hallstatt. There are now around 300 hurdy-gurdy players in Austria.

Song poetry, courtly couple epics and heroic epics from the high and late Middle Ages: These areas form a special focus of Kummer. Versepik was and is still performed singing in many cultures, traditions in Europe go back to antiquity ( Homer , Rhapsoden ). At a time when this practice was almost extinct in Central Europe, Kummer began to study and apply historical performance practices for Sangversepik in close collaboration with scholars. So after the initial skepticism and disinterest in the specialist sciences, the realization has prevailed that the old epics only become fully accessible through sung interpretation. The melodies used are partly handed down, partly reconstructable, such as the Hildebrand tone that Kummer applies to the Nibelungenlied and to the Kudrun . In the first and only complete recording of the entire Nibelungenlied (2006, see discography ), Kummer sang the epic in front of an audience in five concerts of six hours each. He also presented the Laurin epic in full , as well as excerpts from Michel Beheim's book from the Viennese (ibid.) And the Kudrun. At the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo , Mich./USA, he performed the strophic version of Duke Ernst's epic in full (soon also as a video). Apart from E. Kummer, only Reinhold Wiedenmann (German-language literature of the Middle Ages) and Benjamin Bagby (Old English Beowulf ) put on comparable performances .

Kummer also adapted courtly rhyming couple epics for the musical performance and has performed and partially recorded passages from the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach , the Tristan of Gottfried von Strasbourg and the satirical epic The Ring by Heinrich Wittenwiler . Kummer's recordings of German-language songs from the Middle Ages and early modern times are numerous; including works u. a. von dem Kürenberger , Walther von der Vogelweide , Neidhart , Mönch von Salzburg , Hugo von Montfort , Oswald von Wolkenstein , Hans Sachs . In recent times, Kummer has dealt with a faithful replica of the Trossinger lyre and the musical revival of this instrument.

Eberhard Kummer as a teacher: Kummer has participated in numerous courses at universities in Austria (Universities of Salzburg and Graz) as well as in many other countries inside and outside Europe. Since 2006 he has held seminars on the performance of medieval songs in collaboration with the Department of Older German Literature at the University of Bamberg . In the summer semester 2008 he and S. Hartmann (University of Würzburg) devoted himself to the song poetry of Oswald von Wolkenstein. In the 2008/09 winter semester, the focus was on Neidhart's oeuvre. Also at schools in Austria (including through the Kulturservice Tirol for 27 years), in Germany and in South Tyrol he introduced children and young people to old songs and epics with harp and hurdy-gurdy. Since the early 1980s, Kummer conducted numerous courses in the hurdy-gurdy game and singing to the hurdy-gurdy.

Publications

  • Eberhard Kummer (arrangement): Old Viennese folk songs. for singing a. Guitar edit by Eberhard Kummer. Eberle, Vienna 1978, DNB 354372831 .

Discography

Own productions

  • 1978, 1981: Old Viennese folk songs. Preiser-Records, EMI-Electrola, Cologne (LPs and CDs)
  • 1978: Der Mönch von Salzburg / Cesar Bresgen , Help Austria Records HAS 174.
  • 1984: The Nibelungenlied. Pan-Verlag, Vienna (LP)
  • 1984: The murder on the Mölkerbastei. Pan-Verlag, Vienna (LP)
  • 1986: Songs and dance of the Middle Ages - Neidhart von Reuental. Pan-Verlag, Vienna. (LP No. 117 001)
  • 1987: Ballad by Wolf Dietrich and other ballads. Lyraphon, Salzburg (MC no. Unknown)
  • 1990: Max and Moritz from Wilhelm Busch. Extempore Records, Linz (MC LC 8075)
  • 1993: Sentimental folk songs about death, robbers and murderers according to with Elisabeth Orth. Preiser-Records, Vienna (CD)
  • 1995: The book of the Viennese - written down by Michel Beheim. Preiser-Records, Vienna (CD 90206)
  • 1997: Alt-Wiener Volkslieder I + II. ORF and Preiser-Records, Vienna (CD 90038, 90131)
  • 1998: The Nibelungenlied, Walther von der Vogelweide, Kürenberger. Extraplatte , Vienna (not identical to the LP from 1984, but new recording: CD, stereo 93415)
  • 1998: It complies. Songs of Oswald von Wolkenstein. Preiser-Records, Vienna (CD, Stereo 91051)
  • 2004: Laurin - Epic and Schwank in medieval Tyrol. ORF, Vienna (including excerpts from the Laurin epic, the Dietrich epics from the Virginal and the Giant Corner, the Willehalm Wolframs von Eschenbach, the Iwein Hartmanns von Aue and two Schwankmär: Edition Alte Musik CD 363)
  • 2004: Songs for the lyre & interesting facts about Christmas. Together with Helga Maria Wolf . Extraplatte, Vienna (CD LC 8202)
  • 2006: Nibelungenlied, Complete Recording. The Chaucer Studio, Provo, Utah / USA (two MP3 CDs) [6]
  • 2007: The songs of Hugo von Montfort. ORF, Vienna (Edition Alte Musik, two CDs + DVD, CD 3011)
  • 2011: Kudrun. The Chaucer Studio, Provo, Utah / USA
  • 2011: Wartburg War and Tannhauser Ballad. The Chaucer Studio, Provo, Utah / USA
  • 2011: Hildebrandslied. The Chaucer Studio, Provo, Utah / USA
  • 2012: Ulrich von Liechtenstein, vox medii aevi GER 07-2011

Participation in productions

  • 1980: songs and duets of romanticism . Performers: Guy-Kummer, Elisabeth (alto). Kummer, Eberhard (bass). Ortner, Roman (piano). LP, Vienna: Preiser
  • 1983: In adventu Domini: pre-Christmas. Music from 1200 to 1600 . Vienna: Mirror Music
  • 1986: Scholi sings . Songs & ballads by the chased student LP Lyraphon 580441, Seekirchen / Salzburg: recording studio "Die Mühle".
  • 1990: Mozart, dances and minuets. Vienna Academy Martin Haselböck on original instruments. Novalis, Switzerland ??? (CD 150 059-1)
  • 1993: It's a beautiful thing umb a roses. Live recording of the world premiere as part of the Carinthian Summer in Villach. Carinthian Summer (CD 1111)
  • 1994: Hans Sachs and his time. Clemencic Consort . Stradivarius dischi, Milano (new edition 2010)
  • 1997: Milestones in folk music. Folk culture of Lower Austria, Atzenbrugg. CD series. Advent and Christmas in the mountains. Publishing company ??? Munich
  • 1998: The state is in danger! Songs for the Viennese Revolution 1848. Wiener Volksliedwerk and Extraplatte, Vienna (CD LC 8202)
  • 1999: The Ship of Fools - recording of the performance of the play of the same name at the Summer Games in Altenburg Abbey. CD, Vienna: Preiser: 1999
  • 2000: On the ground floor and first floor. Viennese songs and dances 1760–1860. "The Eipeldauer". Extraplatte, Vienna (CD EX 443-2)
  • 2002: Medieval songs and dances. Paul Hofhaimer Consort Salzburg. Publishing house of the provincial library, Weitra / Weinberg Records, Kefermarkt (CD SW 010173) [5]
  • 2004: The spiritual nightingale. Christmas and shepherd music from ancient Austria. Clemencic Consort Arte Nova Classics, Munich. (CDLC 3480)
  • 2005: Hadamar von Laber - The Hunt for Love. CD, Munich: Oehms Classics, Munich. Clemencic Consort (CD OC 519)
  • 2009: We pulled against Napoleon. Music of the Napoleonic era. (CD LC 16167)

Secondary literature

  • U. Müller: Eberhard Kummer and the Middle High German Sangversepik. In: Austrian music magazine. 5, 1989, pp. 234-238.
  • F. Lachersdorfer: The hurdy-gurdy. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. 43/2, 1989, pp. 154-156. online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  • S. Hartmann, U. Müller: Kudrun: A modern premiere by Eberhard Kummer. In: JOWG. 16 (2006/2007), pp. 449-450.
  • A. Schindler: Short report on Eberhard Kummer's complete recording of the Nibelungenlied. In: JOWG. 17, 2008/2009, pp. 493-494.
  • R. Bräuer: The Middle High German Nibelungenlied on two MP3 CDs. Complete recording by Eberhard Kummer. In: Wagner Spectrum. 2009: Focus: Wagner and his conductors. Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, pp. 203–204 ISSN  1614-9459 (review of the complete recording in German)
  • U. Müller: <Nibelungenlied>, heroic epic, courtly epic - sung. The performance attempts of Eberhard Kummer. In: J. Keller, F. Kragl (Hrsg.): Mythos-Sage- story: memorial for Alfred Ebenbauer. V & R Unipress, Vienna 2009.
  • S. Wagner: Comparison, transference and performative discovery: Eberhard Kummer's methodical approaches to the musical (re) awakening of a museum artefact, the so-called 'Trossinger Lyre'. In: Phoibos. 2/2009, pp. 75-92.

Web links

Commons : Eberhard Kummer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography in the austriaforum of the TU Vienna
  2. ^ Friedrich , Marianne and Wolfgang Kummer
  3. ↑ cf. z. B. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: program booklet of the Austrian Society of Music Friends ) or in "Das Große Pasticcio", from March 14, 2001 in "The Creation" (spiritual carnival game)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.oegm.org
  4. ↑ s. Wagner, S. (2009)
  5. ↑ 19.-21. September 2000. Odyssey, Bernhard Trebuch in the evening on Ö1; s. Archive of APA press releases
  6. ↑ U. a. in Great Britain, France, the USA (New York, Berkeley, Charlottesville, Bowling Green and Kalamazoo), Egypt (Cairo), Niger and Azerbaijan. In Niger he exchanged a. a. also with griots , the traditional African epic singers, and got to know their playing styles. s. Kummer E. et Müller U., "Littérature épique chantée au Moyen-Age germanophone: Tradition et tentatives modern de représentation" in Buschinger, D. [Ed.] Épopée et identités , 2005, conference volume in the series Médiévales | Collection Médiévales Amiens: Presses du Center d'Études Médiévales, ISSN  1760-253X
  7. ↑ Hartmann, Sieglinde / Halac-Regenfuss, Nermina: "Concert Chronicle 1999–2003." In: Yearbook of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society. 14 (2003/2004), pp. 305-319, pp. 308, 310 and 312.
  8. ↑ u. a .:
    • "Odysseus und Polyphem" (9th song of the Odyssey) OP 121, ORF recording autumn 1995 Oberschützen;
    • Concert in the morning (early music in concert) March 6, 2008: European, recorded February 18 in the Brahms Hall of the Wiener Musikverein: Bernhard Trebuch;
    • TV program "From white women and red knights" ORF (produced by Johannes-Leopold Mayer; 1991)
    • Concert in the morning; Clemencic Consort: Magnus Caesar Otto - Austrian music of the 10th - 13th centuries (recorded April 27, 2004 (unsecured) in the Brahms Hall see above)
  9. ↑ z. B. in the Bockkeller of the Viennese folk song factory , s. Schaller-Pressler, G. "Folk music and folk song in Vienna" in Elisabeth Th. Fritz, Helmut Kretschmer (Hrsg.): Vienna music history. Part 1: Folk music and Viennese song . Volume 6. Lit-Verlag, Vienna 2006, p. 144.
  10. ↑ see Lachersdorfer, F. (1989) - "The hurdy-gurdy". In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. 43/2, p. 156.
  11. ↑ mainly the universities in Salzburg (Ulrich Müller, Margarete Springeth), Bamberg (Ingrid Bennewitz) and Würzburg (Horst Brunner, Sieglinde Hartmann); namely through scientific advice and occasional joint appearances in "commented concerts"
  12. ^ S. Hartmann, U. Müller: Kudrun: A modern first performance by Eberhard Kummer. In: Yearbook of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society. 16 (2006/2007), pp. 449-450. s. a .: http://wolkenstein-gesellschaft.com/jahrbuch.php
  13. ↑ For details, see Müller (2009)
  14. ↑ s. the discography in more detail . Verses of the Kürenberger, including the falcon song, as well as Walther von der Vogelweide's age-old eloquence were not recorded separately, but can be found on the CD Nibelungenlied .
  15. ↑ over 30 songs for ORF / Ö1
  16. ↑ The complete recording of a concert with songs by Oswald von Wolkenstein (November 2009) at Tyrol Castle, together with the texts and a commentary by Margarete Springeth, can be found in the Middle High German term database.
  17. ↑ uni-bamberg.de
  18. ↑ read.tsn.at
  19. ↑ u. a. in Geras, 1986 in Tittmoning and 1987 in Waldmünchen
  20. ↑ Time of inclusion questionable, possibly 1975.
  21. ↑ U. Müller: The Middle Ages. In: W. Hinderer (Ed.): History of German poetry. 2nd Edition. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001, p. 48f.
  22. ↑ Also contains five stanzas by Kürenberger and Walther von der Vogelweide's eloquence. Recording 1983; DNB 351 693 718 ; Volume: 2 records in cassette: 33 min −1  ; 30 cm + accessories
  23. ↑ Photo 1985, in collaboration with the Salzburg Neidhart project; contains the songs: I saw the haide. Child prepares the sledge for the ice. I suffer from the heart. Wilekomen may seem. Daughter, spin the rock. Winter is on vacation. The mei has climbed manig heart high. Everything that the sumer made in joy what. DNB 351948481 ; Scope: Record: 33 min −1  ; 30 cm + booklet with texts and translations
  24. ↑ Contents: Ballad by Wolf Dietrich (Jörg Haider around 1609, melody: "Graf zu Rom"), as well as the ballad of the poor raven and the ballad of Aquarius in the Moldau (music: Cesar Bresgen, text: Ekker)
  25. ↑ a b unsecured
  26. ↑ Schallpl. : 33 min −1  ; 30 cm + ax. (with German and French text or explanations by Gerhard Kramer)
  27. ↑ LP: 33 min −1  ; 30 cm + accessories Performers: Eder, Elisabeth [Sopr]. Griffith, John Wayne [Ten]. Lichtenberger, Hannes [bass bar]. Kummer, Eberhard [bass]. Schwarzbauer, Erich [Dir]; Menestrels. Mozart Boys' Choir. Recording: Vienna, Studio Austrophon. 1983 - P.
  28. ↑ Material from Mozart's time, newly discovered, edited and supplemented by Cesar Bresgen, B-side: including Wolf Dietrich Ballade
  29. ^ Volkskultur Niederösterreich GmbH 3452 Atzenbrugg, Schlossplatz 1 2009 Culture, Region Niederösterreich GmbH
  30. ^ Yearbook of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society. s. a .: http://wolkenstein-gesellschaft.com/jahrbuch.php
personal data
SURNAME Grief, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian concert singer, lawyer and expert on music of the Middle Ages
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Krems at the Donau
DATE OF DEATH 12th July 2019
Place of death Vienna