Erna Woll

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Erna Woll (born March 23, 1917 in St. Ingbert ; † April 7, 2005 in Friedberg ) was a German composer , church musician and author .

Life

Erna Woll studied Protestant church music from 1936 to 1938 with Wolfgang Fortner in Heidelberg and from 1940 to 1944 she studied composition with Joseph Haas and Gustav Geierhaas at the Munich Academy of Music . At the same time she studied school music. During this time she converted to Catholicism . From 1946 to 1948 she studied Catholic church music at the Cologne University of Music , with Heinrich Lemacher , Theodor Bernhard Rehmann and Hermann Schroeder , among others . From 1950 to 1962 she was a school musician at the Teachers Training Institute in Weißenhorn , from 1962 to 1969 a lecturer and from 1969 to 1972 honorary professor at the University of Education in Augsburg . In 1972 she took early retirement due to illness.

Erna Woll's catalog raisonné includes over 200 works, preferably solo songs, choral songs, motets and choral cantatas. She paid particular attention to the musical genre New Spiritual Song (NGL).

Erna Woll was a member of the Werkgemeinschaft Musik e. V., the ecumenical lyricists and composers group of the Werkgemeinschaft Musik e. V. and the AG Music in the Evangelical Youth e. V., today the lyricists and composers group TAKT .

Part of her estate is in the Bavarian State Library , another part (especially correspondence) in the Augsburg University Archives.

Awards and honors

Works

  • Songs of Love for medium voice and piano, Tonger (1944/55)
  • Sweet string game . Triptych for mixed choir and tenor solo, Tonger (1960/65)
  • Missa choralis for mixed or equal voices, congregation and organ. Schwann (1958/60)
  • We believe . Ordinarium for mixed or equal voices, congregation and organ, Fidula (1965)
  • Spiritus domini . Proprium for Pentecost Sunday for choir and orchestra (1963)
  • I would like to have seven lives . Cycle for solo voice, mixed choir and instruments, Helbling (1966)
  • Requiem for the living . for mixed choir and instruments based on texts by Marie Luise Kaschnitz a. a., Möseler (1975)
  • Four motets . based on texts by Gertrud von le Fort (1975/76), Süddeutscher Musikverlag
  • Search - listen - praise . Organ triptych, Strube , 1985
  • How to talk to you . Ecumenical Marian songs, Strube, 1986
  • Augsburg organ booklet . Böhm, 1987
  • Sola gratia . Strube, 1988
  • Invocations . Strube, 1988
  • Christmas Gospel according to Luke . Strube, 1988
  • Children ask about Maria . Strube, 1988
  • About the pain threshold V . 1989
  • Women around Jesus . Strube, 1990
  • Orthodox chants for equal voices . 1990, dedicated to the Segiuschor Weingarten (88250)
  • How to sing and say . Strube, 1991
  • The beloved, the beloved . Strube, 1991
  • Born Mirjam . Five meditations for organ, Pro Organo , 1991
  • Now the dark night is over . Strube, 1991
  • ... and Maria . Strube, 1992
  • Soundtracks on the organ . Böhm, 1992
  • Reflecting on the flute and organ . Böhm, 1992
  • Passing . Mosaic for organ, Schott 1993
  • Where are you, God . Strube, 1995
  • Magic wishes . Furore, 1995
  • The 80th psalm . Strube, 1995
  • Ave Maria tender . Strube, 1997
  • The Lord of Glory is coming . Strube, 1997
  • From the sky high . Möseler 2002

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nachlass Erna Woll ( Memento of December 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) at Kalliope - Union catalog of bequests and autographs
  2. ↑ https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/organisation/einrichtungen/archiv/uberblick-uber-die-bestande/nachlasse-und-deposita/nl-erna-woll/
personal data
SURNAME Woll, Erna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, church musician and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Ingbert
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2005
Place of death Friedberg