Frank-Harald Greß

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Frank-Harald Greß (born July 27, 1935 in Dresden ) is a German organ researcher and author. He was a professor at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden . He is considered one of the leading Gottfried Silbermann researchers.

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Greß received his first music lessons from Günter Metz (Zwickau) and Hans Otto (Dresden), studied organ with Herbert Collum at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden , then musicology, art history and acoustics at the University of Leipzig. Here he completed his organ studies with Robert Köbler . He received his doctorate in Rostock in 1974 and completed his habilitation in Halle (Saale) in 1983.

From 1959 to 1992 he taught at the Music Academy in Dresden, where he received a professorship in 1988. His subjects were music history, instrument studies and acoustics. At the same institute he built up a department for jazz and popular music from 1962, which he headed for over three decades. He was a co-founder and long-term member of the executive committee of the Gottfried Silbermann Society Freiberg e. V.

His research focus is organ building, including the life and work of Gottfried Fritzsche and Gottfried Silbermann. He also worked on the planning of around 50 organs at home and abroad and as a consultant for restorations and reconstructions of historical organs. Greß designed arrangements and scales for numerous new organs, among others in the Kreuzkirche Dresden (1963), in St. Nicolai and St. Johann / Lemgo (1967 and 1970), the city ​​hall in Chemnitz (1976), concert hall "Georg Phillipp Telemann" Magdeburg (1979), concert hall St. Ulrich Church in Halle / Saale (1980), in Naumburg Cathedral (1983), in St. Margrethen / Switzerland (1992), St. Anna / Twistringen (1996), Kotka / Finland (1998 ), Velesovo / Slovenia (2007) and in the Paulinum / Leipzig (2009–2015).

Fonts (selection)

  • The Gottfried Silbermann organ of St. George's Church in Großkmehlen. In: Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Großkmehlen (Ed.), Thomas Brilla (Red.): The parish church of St. Georg in Großkmehlen. A commemorative publication. Quack-Druck, Neuburxdorf 2018, pp. 96–128.
  • The organ of the Johanniskirche (Zittau). In: Gerhard Große (Hrsg.): Sankt Johannis Zittau - church, cultural site, monument. Freundeskreis der Johanniskirche Zittau, Zittau 2016, ISBN 978-3-946165-11-8 , pp. 108–118.
  • Because this city suits me ... well above others - Gottfried Silbermann and Freiberg. In: Albrecht Koch (ed.): The first in the world. Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 2014, ISBN 9783944509020 , pp. 118-136.
  • The rebirth of a sound world - the organs of the evangelical palace chapel in Dresden and their replicas. In: Die Dresdner Frauenkirche, year book… 2013. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2775-7 , pp. 103–110.
  • Organs and organists of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2699-6 .
  • The organs of the Marienkirche in Zwickau. In: Ars Organi . Vol. 60, 2012, Issue 2, ISSN  0004-2919 , pp. 69-78.
  • Gottfried Silbermann as Instrument Builder. In: Clavichord international. Vol. 15, 2011, Issue 1, pp. 9-10; Issue 2, pp. 51-53.
  • The organ temperatures of Gottfried Silbermann. (= Freiberg studies on the organ 12 ). Kamprad, Altenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-930550-66-1 .
  • The Gottfried Fritzsche organ of the Dresden Palace Chapel and its reconstruction. (= Saxon studies on older music history; 3 ). In: Matthias Herrmann (Hrsg.): The music care in the Protestant castle chapel Dresden during the Schütz time. Kamprad, Altenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-930550-55-5 , pp. 141-157.
  • 200 years of Jehmlich organ building . In: Ars Organi. Vol. 56, 2008, pp. 219-222.
  • Gottfried Silbermann's organs . (= Publications of the Society of Organ Friends 177 ). 3. Edition. Sandstein, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-930382-50-7 .
  • The history of the organ. In: Berit Drechsel (ed.): The Gottfried Silbermann organ of the Petrikirche in Freiberg. Origin, change, reconstruction. Sandstein, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-940319-02-9 , pp. 9-22
  • Gottfried Silbermann's design principles and their significance for contemporary organ building. In: "We praise your art, your price is highly valued ..." The organ builder Gottfried Silbermann (1683–1753). Katzbichler, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-87397-584-2 , pp. 33-37.
  • Contributions in: Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (Ed.): Silbermann. History and legend of an organ building family. Exhibition catalog. Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe 2006, ISBN 978-3-7995-0218-4 .
  • Gottfried Silbermann - Werke - Stringed keyboard instruments. In: The Music in Past and Present , Part 15, Bärenreiter, Kassel etc. 2006, ISBN 978-3-7618-1135-1 , pp. 790–791.
  • with Alexander Koschel: The organs of the castle church St. Trinitatis in Weißenfels. Bassoon, Orgelverlag, Friedrichshafen 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-019678-2 .
  • Zacharias Hildebrandt - Organ-historical location determination. In: Freiberg studies on the organ. No. 8, 2004, pp. 7-38.
  • Organ city Freiberg. In: Echo - European Cities of Historical Organs. Innsbruck and Göteborg 2002, pp. 34–43.
  • The organ of the Georgenkirche; The organ of the Marienkirche; Gottfried Silbermann - Personality and Work. In: Brigitte Steinbach (Ed.): Rötha and the organs of Gottfried Silbermann. Passage, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-66-9 , pp. 14-25, 32-37, 40-42.
  • The Silbermann organ of the Dresden Frauenkirche - original and reconstruction. In: Die Dresdner Frauenkirche, yearbook 1999. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-7400-1030-4 , pp. 93–114.
  • Future organs for the Dresden Frauenkirche. Aspects, functions, concepts. In: Acta Organologica. Vol. 26, 1998, pp. 143-156.
  • Dresden as an organ city. In: The Dresden church music in the 19th and 20th centuries. Laaber, Laaber 1998, ISBN 3-89007-331-X , pp. 241-258.
  • The organs of the Frauenkirche in Dresden. Gottfried Silbermann Society, Freiberg 1994.
  • The Gottfried Fritzsche organ of the Dresden Castle Chapel. Investigations to reconstruct their sound image. In: Acta Organologica. Vol. 23, 1993, pp. 67-112.
  • The sound of Gottfried Silbermann's organs. Breitkopf, Leipzig / Wiesbaden 1989, ISBN 3-923639-78-3 .
  • The "organ positive" Gottfried Silbermanns. In: Eitelfriedrich Thom (Ed.): Report on the 8th symposium on questions of musical instrument making. Michaelstein Culture and Research Center, Michaelstein 1988, pp. 44–53.

literature

Where did he get that from? In: Sabine Ebert: Silbermann's heirs. Leipziger Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-910143-72-5 , pp. 20-27.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden: History of the Institute , accessed on April 10, 2018.
  2. ↑ Short biography on “Offenes Palais” , seen March 3, 2014.
  3. ^ Trier Orgelpunkt: Die Sächsische Orgelwelt , accessed on March 2, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Greß, Frank-Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university teacher, organ expert and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden