Franz Metz (musicologist)

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Franz Metz (* 1955 in Darova , People's Republic of Romania ) is a German organist , musicologist and conductor .

Life

Franz Metz received his first piano lessons in Lugoj from his father, the church musician Martin Metz and from his teachers Dr. Josef Willer and Prof. Clara Peia. From 1974 to 1978 he completed his organ studies at the University of Music in Bucharest . Here Metz met the then cathedral organist Joseph Gerstenengst, whom he regularly represented on the large cathedral organ of St. Joseph's Cathedral. A few organ lessons with Franz Xaver Dressler in Sibiu gave the young organist additional insights into his later work. Metz made his debut on the Walcker organ of the Bucharest Athenaeum in 1977.

Franz Metz's debut as a concert organist took place in Timișoara in 1975 . Until 1985 he worked in the city as an organist and church musician at the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus , at the Millennium Church and at the Timișoara Cathedral . Before he emigrated to Germany in 1985, he gave numerous concerts as an organ soloist, together with the country's philharmonic orchestras ( Banat Philharmonic in Timișoara 1981, Arad 1982, Bucharest 1982, Târgu Mureș 1984, Maria Radna 1984), followed by several concerts in the German Democratic Republic Republic , in Prague and in Austria . From 1983 to 1985 he was the conductor of the Schubert Choir Timişoara . In 1990, Metz founded an international master class for young organists in Timișoara.

Since 1985 Metz has been active as Stiftskantor in Hechingen , organist at Hohenzollern Castle and since 2000 as organist at St. Pius and musicologist in Munich . He gave numerous organ concerts on important organs in Europe; Concert and musicological activity in several European countries. He has directed numerous vocal-symphonic premieres by previously unknown Banat composers and recordings for radio, television and CD productions. Franz Metz works as a lecturer at music academies in Germany and abroad .

conductor

As a conductor, Franz Metz can be attributed a wide range of activities:

  • Founder and director of the Lugoscher Chamber Orchestra (1979);
  • Founder and director of the Hechingen Chamber Orchestra (1987);
  • Founder and director of the Banat Chamber Orchestra (1987);
  • Founder and director of the ensemble Musica Banatica (1995), concert tour through Germany 1996;
  • Founder and leader of the Banat Choir Munich (2000);
  • Founder and director of the ensemble Capella Bavarica , Munich (2005);
  • First and world premieres of numerous previously lost works by Banat composers;
  • First performance of important works by Johann Michael Haydn ( Sechs Salve Regina , comp. 1760; Missa Trinitatis , Temeswar 1754; Missa Sanctae Cyrilli et Methodii , Vienna 1758), Franz Limmer (Requiem, Missa Solemnis, Justus ut palma florebit, string quartet, overture to the opera “Die Alpenhütte”), Conrad Paul Wusching (Missa brevis), Richard Oschanitzky (Missa brevis, Ave Maria, six sacred songs); Recordings of these works with the Philharmonic orchestras and choirs Timișoara and Oradea .

organist

Franz Metz was very active as an organist:

Musicological activity

At the musicological level, he has dealt with the discovery, establishment and premieres of works by Banat composers. We owe him numerous musicological publications that relate in particular to the music history of the German minorities in Southeast Europe . All these names of previously more or less well-known German composers could only be made known in the German-speaking countries through his discovery and research work. B. Franz Limmer , Johann Michael Haydn , Vincenc Mašek , Guido von Pogatschnigg, Wilhelm Ferch , Conrad Paul Wusching, Wilhelm Schwach , Richard Oschanitzky. He was also a guest in numerous radio and television programs about Banat music archives and Banat historical organs. Together with numerous German, Romanian and Hungarian radio and television teams, he produced programs about Banat music archives and historical organs of the Banat.

  • Numerous musicological book publications and scholarly works for anthologies that have appeared in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Serbia , Croatia , Slovenia , Slovakia and Italy.
  • Music history of Southeast Europe, especially of the German minorities of these countries
  • Fundamental research and publications on the history of the Banat and Southeast European organ building
  • Recordings for radio , television and CD
  • Head of several research and security projects in Romania, Serbia and Hungary on the music history of the German minorities
  • Editor of numerous musical works by Southeast European composers, especially from the historical Banat in the music publisher Edition Musik Südost, Munich
  • Initiator and leader of several international musicological symposia in Germany and abroad (Munich, Löwenstein , Timișoara , Lugoj , Bucharest , Budapest ); Lectures at domestic and foreign universities.

Book publications

  • The Timişoara Philharmonic Society 1871. A chronicle of Southeast European music history 1850-1950. , Edition Musik Südost, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-939041-00-9
  • Josef Angster. An organ builder's diary. Publishing house of the Donauschwäbischen Kulturstiftung, Munich 2004; Edition Musik Südost, ISBN 978-3-939041-07-8
  • Te Deum laudamus. Contribution to the history of Banat church music. ADZ-Verlag, Bucharest / Edition Musik Südost, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-939041-06-1
  • 125 years of the Timişoara Philharmonic Society 1871-1996. Publishing house of the Timisoara Philharmonic Banatul, Timisoara / Edition Musik Südost, Munich 1996
  • Contributions to Southeast European music history. Edition Musik Südost, Munich 2001, in collaboration with the Donauschwäbischen Kulturstiftung, Munich, ISBN 978-3-939041-08-5
  • The hymn of the Danube Swabians. A documentation of the hymn of the German Catholics of Southeast Europe. , Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-939041-13-9
  • The church music of the Danube Swabians. Academia Verlag, Sankt Augustin 1996, ISBN 3-88345-643-8
  • Johann Michael Haydn. His relationship with cathedral music in Timisoara and Oradea. Edition Musik Südost, 1997
  • Of song boards and choral societies in the Banat. ADZ-Verlag Bucharest, Edition Musik Südost, 1998, ISBN 973-98318-2-6
  • Church music in Southeast Europe. Historical and typological studies on the music history of Southeast Europe. Editor, conference report, therein: Interferences in the Christian and Jewish church music traditions of the Banat. Verlag Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2003, ISBN 3-7952-1117-4
  • A trip to the Orient. Johann Strauss and his concerts in the Banat, Transylvania and Wallachia. ADZ-Verlag Bucharest, Edition Musik Südost, 1999, ISBN 973-98318-7-7
  • Organ music manual. Chapter "Romania", Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-7618-2003-8
  • Banat, music in the past and present. (MGG), Lexicon, Volume 1, Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1991, ISBN 3-7618-1100-4
  • Banat choir book. Munich 1997, ISBN 3-922979-45-9
  • Music and politics along the Danube. The musical stories of a colorful European region. Music in transition. Cultural Identity and Social Change in Southeast Europe. Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-88356-135-5
  • The Banat and the sacred music of Southeast Europe. Problems and approaches of a music historical research. International Magazine for Music, Yugoslav Composers' Union , Belgrade 2000, ISSN  0354-818X
  • Music and colonization in the 18th century on the lower Danube. Important music centers between Budapest and the Iron Gate, Counter Reformation and Baroque in Central Europe, in Slovakia. University of Bratislava, Bratislava 2000, ISBN 80-967722-6-0
  • Philharmonic societies and their importance for multiethnic regions in Europe. Ljubljana 2001, conference report , ISBN 961-90466-5-X
  • Musical interference Banat-Transylvania. Conference report: Transylvania and the Banat. Series: Musik im Osten, Academia-Verlag, Sankt Augustin 1997, ISBN 3-88345-746-9
  • Church Music and Sacred Music in Romania after 1945: Communism and Church Music. Conference report: Music history between Eastern and Western Europe . Studio-Verlag, Chemnitz / Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-89564-072-7
  • The two-part hymn of the Danube Swabians. On the history of the German hymn in Vojvodina. Man and Music. International Symposium 2001, Belgrade 2003
  • Romanesque wise men from the Banate for Queen Elisabeth. Anthology: International Strauss Symposium, Bucharest, August 2002 (co-editor) and author, Vienna Institute for Strauss Research: Die Fledermaus, special issue, Hans Schneider-Verlag, Tutzing, October 2003, ISBN 3-7952-1135-2
  • Un locuitor al Grazului si un Strauss banatean: Josef Gungl si Vincenz Maschek, relatiile lor cu Johann Strauss. Congress report: Simpozionul international: Viata si opera lui Johann Strauss / Internationales Johann Strauss Symposium (2002), Verlag Muzeul National Cotroceni, Bucharest, 2003
  • Musica Sacra. The reception of Byzantine music and church music of Southeast Europe by the magazine of the General German Ccäcilienverband. In: Conference report, Iasi / Jassy, ​​International Musicological Symposium, Iasi / Jassy 12.-15. May 2003; Institute for Byzantine Studies, Iasi
  • The choir in Southeast Europe in the period 1920-1945. Effects of National Socialism on the musical culture of German minorities. Anthology: 18th Slovenian Musical Days, Symposium Choral music and choral societies and their role in the developement of the musical cultures; Ljubljana 2004, ISBN 961-90466-8-4
  • Planted, grafted and uprooted? For the documentation of the musical culture of German minorities in southeast Europe. A critical inventory. Congress Report, Ljubljana, September 2001, United Europe - United Music? Diversity and social dimensions in Central and Southeastern Europe, Bruno B. Reuer (Ed.), Weidler Buchverlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89693-245-4
  • Composed songs, poetry set to music. Nikolaus Lenau: poet and musician at the same time. For the poet's 200th birthday. In: Austria and the Banat Swabians, Hans Dama (Ed.), Vienna 2005
  • Enescu si orga. Concertele lui Enescu in Banat. In: George Enescu in perspectiva contemporana. Simpozioanele internationale de muzicologie George Enescu, Editura Institutului Cultural Roman, Bucuresti 2005
  • The church music traditions of the Franciscans in the area of ​​the historical Banat. In: Plaude turba paupercula. Franciscan Spirit in Music, Literature and Art. Conference report, Bratislava, 4.-6. October 2004; published: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava 2005
  • Music as an intercultural dialogue. The music of the Germans in / from Southeast Europe. 20 years GDMSE (publisher), Südosteuropäische Musikhefte, Volume 4, conference report, February 19, 2005, Munich, Edition Musik Südost, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-939041-01-7
  • Music as an intercultural dialogue. The Banat as a euroregional sound space. (Editor), Romanian title: Muzica - dialog intercultural. Confluente muzicale interculturale in Banat; Conference report, 23-25. September 2005, Temeswar / Timișoara; Southeast European Music Books, Volume 5; Edition Musik Südost, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-939041-02-5
  • From the opera to the church. Concert church music in south-east European dioceses in the first half of the 19th century. In: Church music between secularization and restoration, conference report, edited by Friedrich Wilhelm Riedel, Studio-Verlag, Sinzig 2006
  • The religious music cultures of the Banat town of Lugosch around 1900, music history in Central and Eastern Europe. Announcements of the international working group at the University of Leipzig, issue 11, Gudrun-Schröder-Verlag, Leipzig 2007
  • The big day of Timisoara. The liberation of Timisoara was celebrated with music 290 years ago in Vienna and Hamburg. Congress report: Music for social occasions - music for fun, music for every day, publisher Primoz Kuret, Ljubljana 2007, ISBN 978-961-91596-2-0
  • Editor of over 200 works by newly discovered Southeast European and Banat composers at Edition Musik Südost, Munich
  • Editor of the series "Southeast European Music Books"
  • Editor of MUSIKZEITUNG, on behalf of the Society for German Music Culture in Southeastern Europe

Memberships

  • Chairman of the Society for German Music Culture in Southeastern Europe eV (since 1997)
  • Member of the working group for the history of music in Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Leipzig (since 1998)
  • Initiator and founding member of the Timişoara Philharmonic Society (1998)
  • Founder and leader of the Timisoara International Organ Week (1991-1998)
  • Advisory board member of the editorial board of the journal “Studies and Research in Art History” (Studii si cercetari de Istoria Artei) of the Romanian Academy (since 2008)
  • Member of the advisory board of the editorial board of the magazine “Die Musik” (Muzica), the Association of Composers and Musicologists of Romania, Bucharest
  • Honorary member of the Union of Composers and Musicologists of Romania (Uniunea Compozitorilor si Muzicologilor din Romania) (since 2009)
  • Honorary President of the Romanian Johann Strauss Society
  • Chairman of the Gerhardsforum Banater Schwaben eV (2009)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the House of German East , Munich, of the Bavarian State Ministry for Social Affairs (since 2008)

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personal data
SURNAME Metz, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, musicologist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Darova , People's Republic of Romania