Ernst Kutzer (composer)

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Ernst Ludwig Kutzer (born March 9, 1918 in Munich ; † October 14, 2008 in Pentling ) was a German composer and music teacher .

Life

In 1919, when he was one year old, Ernst Kutzer moved with his parents to their home in Thanhausen near Bärnau in the Upper Palatinate Stiftland . Kutzer grew up in a musical family. After attending the teachers' seminar in Amberg (today the Max-Reger-Gymnasium Amberg ) he studied composition with Joseph Haas at the Munich Music Academy in 1941/42, interrupting his military service . With Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen (1882-1954) he continued his training there from 1946-48 and passed his exam in 1949 with a major in Catholic church music.

From 1945 to 1980 he worked in school: in Hohenthan near Bärnau, Mitterteich , Stein near Tirschenreuth and most recently as the rector of the Bad Abbach primary school . 1949–54 he headed the Waldsassen chamber music group , 1980–83 he was a lecturer in harmony at the church music school (today the University for Catholic Church Music and Music Education ) in Regensburg .

Ernst Kutzer lived in Pentling since 1966 .

Awards

Compositions

Ernst Kutzer wrote orchestral works, chamber music, cantatas, masses and motets, an opera, a musical and over 250 solo songs with various accompanying instruments (piano, harp, organ, guitar, violoncello, string quartet). His hunter cantata saw hundreds of performances, his Bavarian about 40 performances throughout the year according to texts by Helmut Zöpfl . Kutzer's vocal works are based on tonality ; Between 1972 and 1983 he also worked instrumentally in the field of twelve-tone music .

Vocal compositions

  • Mass "Benedictus es Domine" op. 3 (1951?)
  • Mass in C (1951?)
  • May cantata op. 16 based on folk songs
  • Jägerkantata op.19 based on folk songs, for tenor, bass, male choir and small orchestra (or piano)
  • Bavarian Through the Year op. 99 (1978) for tenor, bass, speaker, male choir and orchestra. Texts: Helmut Zöpfl
1.  Intrade (orchestra) - 2.  And the year is so young (choir) - 3.  Gfrei di dass blüaht (bass, choir) - 4.  Long was the day (choir) - 5.  At the time I like to be in Gras (tenor) - 6.  No hanging the tree (choir) - 7.  Long was the summer (bass, choir) - 8.  Summer is umma (tenor, bass, choir) - 9.  Over the stubble (choir) - 10.  Stay with me (Tenor) - 11.  De air tastes of withered Sonna (tenor, bass, chorus) - 12  De Flockn falln (Bass) - 13  'sJahr is müad (chorus) - 14  feel, wia se alls with Lebn again fuit (tenor, bass, choir)
Orchestra: 1.0.2.0 - 1.2.0.0 - percussion [1-3] - strings
1.  Letter full of longing - 2.  I know - 3.  Thoughts in the night - 4.  You are away
1. In  front of the inn, on the Eisenstang ("This is my old children's path") - 2.  Alone with the wine ("Like the yellow wine in a glass") - 3.  Before the thunderstorm ("The walnut tree shines with every thousand leaves") - 4.  The trout fisherman (“The thunder popped”) - 5.  The lantern (“In the garden / At black midnight”) - 6.  Disillusionment (“Your heart is smart enough to know”) - 7.  Autumn feeling ( "Autumn hangs deep blue grapes in front of the house")

Stage works

  • D'Woidrumpl (1987). Opera. Libretto: Christine Fuchs-Gumppenberg. WP (concert) 1993 Regensburg (Neuhaussaal)
  • Papa Bernd and the fearful rabbits . musical

Orchestral works

  • Swing arrangements for big band (late 1930s, lost)
  • Saint Emmerams call . Intrada for 16 wind instruments and timpani. Premiere 1971 Regensburg
  • Rhapsodic Suite op.118a (1995). WP Regensburg (Regensburg Symphonic Wind Orchestra , conductor: Wolfgang Graef)

Piano and chamber music

  • Three Piano Pieces, Op. 1 (1947)
1.  Capriccio - 2.  Romance - 3.  Bagatelle
  • Ten bagatelles for piano op.20
  • Wind quintet No. 1 op.100
  • Piano Trio op.101 (1977)
  • Sonata for viola and piano op.108 (1981)
  • Weinschenk Suite op.115 (1986). Premiere 1986 Regensburg ( Weinschenk-Villa )
  • Rondo for clarinet and piano (1991)
  • String Quartet op.142 (2002)

literature

  • Martina Goller: The music in teacher training in Lower Bavaria and its charisma, illustrated by the example of Lower Bavarian teacher composers at the Deggendorf preparatory school and at the Straubing teacher training college . Approval work, Deggendorf, 1988
  • Composers in Bavaria, Volume 34: Ernst Kutzer, edited by Alexander L. Suder, Tutzing (Schneider) 1997

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personal data
SURNAME Kutzer, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kutzer, Ernst Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 2008
Place of death Pentling