Eva Schorr

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Eva Schorr , née Eva Weiler, (born September 28, 1927 in Crailsheim , Württemberg ; † January 20, 2016 in Stuttgart ) was a German composer and painter .

Training and work

Eva Weiler received her first musical lessons from her parents. Her mother gave her piano lessons and her father, a music and art teacher, also encouraged her artistic creation. Her first compositions were known when she was eight, and when she was fifteen and sixteen she received prizes for composition and organ playing. As an artistic double talent, she painted all her life. The book Approach I by Brunhilde Sonntag and the portrait report on this . From 1947 she studied church music at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart : organ with Hermann Keller and Anton Nowakowski and composition with Johann Nepomuk David . Later she was very influenced by her personal collaboration with Olivier Messiaen as part of the Darmstadt summer courses in Kranichstein .

In 1951 she passed the church music A-exam and the high-school diploma in composition with top marks. When she applied for the composition position advertised at the Musikhochschule in the same year, she was rejected on the grounds that the position had to be filled by a man. She married the Stuttgart music editor Dieter Schorr; the couple had three children.

“I tried the family, composing and painting on an equal footing side by side. With this interlocking of three productive branches of my existence there is no dominance, which in turn made the tolerance of my husband and my children a matter of course. "

- Eva Schorr

Compositions

Schorr composed chamber music , orchestral works, choral music, stage and film music and a children's and youth opera Die Katzen des König (1989), the material of which was published by Carus-Verlag and Edition Peters . Since 1986 compositions by Schorr have been published by Furore Verlag , Carus Verlag, Edition Gamma and Edipason.

Stylistic

A portrait reports on Eva Schorr's artistic perspective and motivation .

"Here (Lieder 1961), the word was convincingly traced using a serial method in an independent diction and a constructed form was also found in the piano setting."

Works (selection)

For larger ensembles or orchestras
  • Chamber Symphony (1953)
  • Septuarship , Violin Concerto (1975)
  • Initials FGHS. (Recording: Kammerensemble Niggemann, Hans-Ulrich Niggemann (flute), Friedrich Milde (oboe), Grete Niggemann (violin), Siegfried Petrenz (harpsichord) (1977) recording SDR)
  • Mixed Suite , version 1984 for mixed orchestra in four movements
Instrumental and vocal solos with and without instrument / chamber ensemble
  • Three songs based on texts by Gottfried Benn (1961)
  • Rhythmic Etudes for Piano (1961)
  • Sonata for piano
  • Sonatas for violin, violoncello and flute with piano
  • ... and preached to the birds ... for harp (1980)
  • Mixed suite for flute and guitar
  • Pas de Trois dance suite for string trio
  • Rondo and 10 variations for string quartet
  • Periods for wind quintet and piano (1990)
Music for / with organ
  • Fantasy, chorale and fugue for cor anglais and organ
  • Psalm 98 for organ
  • 97. Psalm for soloists, choir and organ
  • In the world you are afraid , cantata for medium voice, violin and organ
  • Ritornello (meditation) for violin and organ
  • Fantasy, chorale and fugue for organ and oboe
Music for choir
  • We are part of the earth chorale
  • Kyrie
  • 6 motets for choir

Awards

  • 1961: Female composer prize (letter of recognition) from GEDOK , the Mannheim International Female Composer Competition, for her songs based on Gottfried Benn
  • Prize winner at the 4th Buenos Aires International Composition Competition

literature

  • Brunhilde Sonntag, Renate Matthei (ed.); Approach I - seven women composers. Furore Ed. 802, Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-9801326-3-3 , pp. 35-41.
  • Leni Neuenschwander: The woman in music: The international competitions for women composers [In Mannheim] 1950–1989. A documentation. Mannheim undated (preface 1989) p. 84 u. 94.
  • Antje Olivier (ed.): Female composers. An inventory. The collection of the European Women's Music Archive. 1st edition. Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 3-9801603-1-9 , p. 82.
  • The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Edited by Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel. Macmillan, Great Britain 1994, 1995, 1996, ISBN 0-333-51598-6 , pp. 408-409 (Roswitha Sperber)
  • Roswitha Sperber:  Schorr, Eva. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Eva Schorr - Portrait ( Memento from April 5, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 4, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Eva Schorr - biography ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 4, 2019.
  3. ↑ According to:
    • German National Library (DNB)
    • Clara Mayer (Ed.): COM. Composers in music publishing. Catalog of available music (=  Furore Edition 863 ). Furore, Kassel 1996, ISBN 978-3-927327-29-0 .
    • The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers . Article Eva Schorr by Roswitha Sperber.
  4. ↑ Die Welt , Essen, October 5, 1961 (quoted from Die Frau in der Musik. P. 99).
personal data
SURNAME Schorr, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Crailsheim
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 2016
Place of death Stuttgart