Franns Wilfried Promnitz von Promnitzau

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Franns-Wilfrid Horst Freiherr von Promnitz (born March 8, 1952 in Dresden ) is a German conductor , organist , pianist , singer ( tenor ) and narrator .

Live and act

Von Promnitz was a member of the Dresden Kreuzchor . At the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden he studied conducting, piano, composition, cello, singing and organ. At the age of 18 he worked under Kurt Masur as the responsible director of the Dresden Philharmonic Choir . At the age of 20 he was given an engagement at the Saxon State Opera in Dresden , and in December 1975 he conducted his first opera and ballet.

In 1975 von Promnitz founded the Dresden Vocalists Ensemble and performed with them at festivals and concert tours in Europe. Inspired by an encounter with Erwin Bootz , a member of the legendary Berlin ensemble Comedian Harmonists , Promnitz worked on the revival of the songs of the Comedian Harmonists and reconstructed them by listening to records. Von Promnitz turned to historical performance practice and old ways of playing at an early stage. He was inspired by courses with Harald Vogel , the founder of the North German Orgelakademie , and by concert experience on the oldest organs in the Netherlands, where he lived near Rotterdam for a few years from 1985.

As a concert organist he has performed on the most important organs in Europe: St Paul's Cathedral (London), Lübeck Cathedral , St. Jacobi Hamburg , Saint-Germain-de-Belvès / Dordogne , St. Jans Cathedral ('s-Hertogenbosch), St. Bavokerk Haarlem , Sion / Switzerland.

In 1981 von Promnitz helped found the “ Seifersdorfer Tal ” association, which set itself the task of revitalizing the landscape garden near Dresden in terms of art and garden monument preservation.

In 1984 a work by Johann Gottlieb Naumann was performed for the first time in the church in Seifersdorf .

In 1990 von Promnitz founded the concert series Laufen und Lauschen .

From 1991 to 2005 von Promnitz worked as a choir director, church musician and organist temporarily and on a project basis at Norderney , where he also prepared the performance of the operas by Johann Gottlieb Naumann.

The premiere of his composition Angelus-Silesius-Miniatures for singing organists took place in 1992 in the Seifersdorfer church .

From 1993 to 2003 he was a lecturer at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden. Since 2012 he has been teaching at the Rostock University of Music and Theater .

In 2001 von Promnitz helped found the cultural association Muse im Fasanengarten eV , which aims to revive the historically valuable pheasant garden in Moritzburg near Dresden as an important total work of art from the late 18th century on a European scale.

In 2002 von Promnitz founded together with the singer Jana Karin Adam the Ensemble TreCantus , which is mainly devoted to musical works of the Gothic and Renaissance periods, in the rare line-up with two voices and a portative , a portable organ that flourished in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance would have.

From 2002 to 2004 von Promnitz worked as the palace organist in the Gohliser Schlösschen in Leipzig. There he suggested changing concerts (Sunday musical tours) and at the Bach Festival 2003 on May 24th, he performed Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue for organ keys and dance on the cabinet organ with choreographic design by Manfred Schnelle.

In 2005, on July 21st, at the “Schwing” festival in the culture and communication center of the Trier cloth factory, he had Bach's entire work “The Art of Fugue” sounded on the piano in the version mirrored by Peter Andreas around the key note d, a world premiere.

In 2006 there was a new composition of the missing Telemann - Serenata "Der Ochsenbraten" for the Hamburg councilors.

In 2009, together with the Friends of Promnitz Castle , he initiated the 1st Whitsuntide Castle Festival in Promnitz Castle on the Elbe to draw attention to the urgent need to secure the headquarters of the von Promnitz family .

Theater work

Music for documentaries and cartoons

  • 1980–1982: Documentary film, seven episodes of the series Selbstgemalt by Heinz Wittig in Our Sandman
  • 1981: The Homecoming of the Madonna (on the 25th anniversary of the reopening of the Dresden Picture Gallery)
  • 1986: Documentary Slang about the life of Fritz Hampel

Revival of the work of Johann Gottlieb Naumann

Franns von Promnitz is President of the Naumann Society, which was founded in 1991. He viewed and reconstructed 75 works by the composer Johann Amadeus Naumann, directed numerous Naumann premieres and mostly had them performed at historical venues such as the “ Seifersdorfer Tal ” landscape park .

Franns von Promnitz reconstructed Naumann's piano works, 2 oratorios, songs and chamber music, as well as 7 operas:

  • May 30, 1992 Cora (Director: Justus Carrière )
  • May 22, 1993 Amphion
  • May 14, 1994 Orpheus (Choreography: Bea Beck)
  • May 27, 1995 Titus
  • May 31, 1996 The Lady as a Soldier (Director: Claus Martin )
  • June 6, 1999 Medea , world premiere of the German text version Theater Meißen (staging: Annette Jahns , stage design: Arne Walther, costume: Marina Zydek, technical director: Ulrich Bahrmann)
  • June 14, 2001 Abel's death , performance of the Military History Museum in Dresden with the participation of the Dresden Kapellknaben
  • February 9, 2017 La morte d'Abel , HMT Rostock

He also created transcriptions of instrumental music by Johann Amadeus Naumann for organ.

Discography

  • "The Dresden vocalists - Josquin, Lasso, Byrd, Schubert, Schumann and others" - GDR LP: Eterna dmm 7 25 126, [1987]
  • Laudate Dominum I, sacred and secular choral music of the 17th / 18th centuries Century, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands, 17./18. June 1988, Digital Recording 223345, [1988]
  • Johann Sebastian Bach : Art of the Fugue. Concert recording from December 12, 1992, Seifersdorf, Phonothek of the Saxon State Library / Saxon State Archives, ZÖLLNER STUDIO DRESDEN, [1995]
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Six “French” suites. Martin Fischer, Dresden [1999]
  • Johann Amadeus Naumann : Six Quatuors, six quartets, after 1776, Sixtina-Klassiklabel, Dresden [1996]
  • Johann Amadeus Naumann: Organ works, Kindt organ (1790) of the St. Jacobi Church Gingst / Rügen, audiolis, Hartmut Lissner, Dresden [2001]
  • Johann Amadeus Naumann: Outdoor Concert, The Piano Sonatas, audiolis, Hartmut Lissner, Dresden [2002]
  • Johann Amadeus Naumann: Keyboard music on original instruments, audiolis, Hartmut Lissner, Dresden [2008]
  • Traugott Maximilian Eberwein : Amor Proteus or declarations of love of various classes and temperaments. A cycle of songs based on texts by Ernst Friedrich Conradi. Sung by 18 singers, including Bär, Scheibner, Ude, Junghanns, Sixtina-Klassiklabel, Dresden [1999]
  • Musikland Erzgebirge, organs in Wehrkirchen, Mauersberger Freundeskreis eV, HOROS [2003]
  • Viktor Fortin : Works for recorder, played by Dorothea Senf (recorder) and Franns Wilfried Promnitz von Promnitzau (piano), www.natom-productions.de, [2005]
  • Georg Philipp Telemann : from "Three Dozen Clavier" Fantasies "in Italian and French Manner", audiolis, Hartmut Lissner, Dresden [2006]
  • Ensemble TreCantus : The untempered portative, medium-tone music of the Middle Ages, Cistercian Abbey Altzella, audiolis, Hartmut Lissner, Dresden [2002]
  • Ensemble TreCantus: Music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, audiolis, Hartmut Lissner, Dresden [2009]
  • Cooperation with the Saxon State and University Library SLUB - recordings of all performances
  • Johann Sebastian Bach : "Goldberg Variations", organ version, St. Laurentius Church Gräfenroda , auris subtilis, Chemnitz [2011]
  • Johann Sebastian Bach , Georg Böhm , Jan Adamszoon Reincken : "Bach & Lehrer ?!", organ, St. Laurentius Church Cammin, audiolis, Hartmut Lissner, Dresden, [2013]
  • Johann Sebastian Bach : "The Art of Fugue in D minor in three sections" Organ version, St. Laurentius-Kirche Gräfenroda , auris subtilis, Chemnitz [2015]
  • Girolamo Frescobaldi : "Keyboard Music", Gottfried Richter Organ Pomßen, audiolis, Hartmut Lissner, Dresden [2019]

Fiction

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography at www.bach-cantatas.com , accessed on March 29, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c d biography on the homepage of the Rostock University of Music and Theater , accessed on March 29, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c d Interview on elbhangkurier.de , accessed on March 29, 2018.
  4. ↑ Lausitzer Rundschau of August 14, 2014: Von Promnitzau wants to conquer Forst - musically , accessed on March 29, 2018.
  5. ↑ Hikes in the region and beyond ( Memento from October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - Report including the concert series "Laufen und Lauschen"
  6. ↑ TreCantus: F.–W. from Promnitz
  7. ↑ Freundeskreis Schloss Promnitz , accessed on March 29, 2018.
  8. ↑ IFA archive

literature

  • Franns Wilfrid Promnitz and Promnitzau: The Naumann Society and the Saxon Thaloper. Searching for harmony in the Seifersdorfer Valley . In: Hans-Peter Lühr (Ed.): Johann Gottlieb Naumann. Composer in the pre-romantic period . Dresdner Geschichtsverein, Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-910055-58-3 (Dresdner Hefte. Contributions to cultural history; 66).

Web links

  • trecantus.com: Vita
personal data
SURNAME Promnitz von Promnitzau, Franns Wilfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Promnitz, Franns-Wilfrid von; Promnitz von Promnitzau, Franns Wilfried Horst Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, organist, pianist, singer (tenor), porter and narrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden