Franzpeter Messmer

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Franzpeter Messmer (born February 16, 1954 in Geislingen an der Steige ) is a German author , journalist , festival director and musicologist .

Life

Youth and education

Franzpeter Messmer was born in Geislingen. His parents are the engineer Ernst Messmer and the violinist Anne Messmer. He grew up in Riedlingen , where he graduated from high school in 1974 with the Abitur. During his school days he received violin lessons from his mother and devoted himself to composing and writing fiction texts . After military service in the Ulm Music Corps, he studied musicology , art history and German at the University of Munich . He also took private violin lessons from the concertmaster of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Erich Keller . Research stays took him to the State Library in Stuttgart and the British Library in London. In 1981 he finished his studies with a doctorate with Rudolf Bockholdt on the subject of old German song composition. The cantional clause and the unity of singing and poetry.

career path

From 1981 to 1990 Messmer worked as a music journalist . He was an editor at Bayerischer Kulturmosaik , a magazine of the Bavarian National Education Association, freelance music critic for the Neue Musikzeitung and the Fono Forum . He also wrote regularly for Das Orchester . Contributions from him appeared in the Münchner Merkur , the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and in the Stern . He produced numerous radio programs for Bayerischer Rundfunk , SFB , NDR and Radio DRS .

Since 1982 he worked on the program planning of the Landshuter Hofmusiktage - European Festival of Early Music. In 1990, after the death of Winfried Fischer , he took over the artistic direction of the festival. Other festivals, which he headed, are the German music festival in 1997 and the Bavarian Musicians festivals in 1998 and 2008. On behalf of the Bavarian Ministry of Science, Research and Art he designed and coordinated the Richard-Strauss -years 1999 and 2014, the Werner-Egk - 2001 and the Karl Amadeus Hartmann year 2005.

research

The focus of his work as a musicologist is the relationship between music and language in music between the Renaissance and Baroque , the musical history of Munich from the Renaissance to the 20th century, Orlando di Lasso , Georg Friedrich Handel and Richard Strauss, the music of Bavarian composers of the 20th century . and 21st century, connections between music, visual arts, language and philosophy. Franzpeter Messmer was involved in the research project Trümmerzeit in 1984 and in 1988 in the research project Prinzregentenzeit in Munich. Franzpeter Messmer has been publishing the book series Composers in Bavaria since 2008, succeeding Alexander Suder .

Work as a book author

In addition to his scientific texts, Messmer wrote numerous books for a wide audience. He worked with well-known publishers such as Artemis & Winkler or Weltbild . With his biography of Orlando di Lasso, he made a literary contribution to the rediscovery of early music. His cultural history Musicians Travel puts music in the context of everyday culture. His biographies on Orlando di Lasso, Georg Friedrich Händel and Richard Strauss trace the influences of the respective time on the work of the composers. He also wrote the two historical novels Der Venusmann about the castrato Farinelli and Das Traumelexier about the Bavarian Duke Wilhelm V.

Music political engagement

Franzpeter Messmer was first chairman of the Bavarian Tonkünstlerverband from 1989 to 1992 and from 2009 to 2017. From 2011 to 2018 he was on the Presidium of the Bavarian Music Council and on the Board of the State Association for Cultural Education in Bavaria, and has been on the Board of Trustees of the Carl Orff Foundation since 2017. Under his leadership, the Bavarian Tonkünstlerverband achieved a collaboration with the Association of Bavarian Singing and Music Schools (VBSM) and the German Composers Association (Landesverband Bayern), the realization of the "Quality Certificate" for music lessons, which, together with the VBSM and the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and art is granted, and for the first time government funding for freelance music educators and private music institutes. He designed the book for the DTKV ( Deutscher Tonkünstlerverband ) in the nmz , which he headed for several years as editor-in-chief.

Works

  • Orlando di Lasso , A Life in the Renaissance. Music between the Middle Ages and the Modern Era. Edition Musik & Theater, Munich 1982.
  • Old German song composition. The cantional clause and the unity of singing and poetry. Munich Publications on Musicology, Volume 40, Schneider Verlag Tutzing, 1984.
  • Reviews of the world premieres of Richard Strauss' works for the stage. edited by Franzpeter Messmer, publications of the Richard Strauss Society Munich, Volume 11, W. Ludwig Verlag, Pfaffenhofen 1989.
  • Musicians travel. Fourteen chapters from European cultural history. Artemis & Winkler Verlag, Zurich 1992.
  • Richard Strauss . Biography of a sound magician. Edition Musik & Theater, Zurich, St. Gallen 1994.
  • "Der Venusmann", Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag, Bern 1997.
  • The dream elixir. Scherz Verlag, Bern 2000.
  • Carlos Veerhoff . Monograph, together with Thomas Schipperges , Verena Weidner and Günther Weiß, Composers in Bavaria, Volume 47, ed. by Alexander L. Suder, Verlag Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2006
  • George Frideric Handel . Biography, Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2008.
  • Gloria Coates . Schneider, Tutzing 2012, ISBN 978-3-86296-034-7 . ( Composers in Bavaria, Volume 54).
  • Wilfried Hiller . Monograph together with Ursula Adamski-Störmer, Friedemann Winklhofer, Regine Müller, Jan C. Golch, Stephanie Haller, Theresa Kalin, Composers in Bavaria, Volume 56, ed. v. Theresa Kalin and Franzpeter Messmer, Verlag Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2014, ISBN 978-3-86296-068-2 .
  • Franz Hummel . Monograph together with Theodor Geißler, Andreas Kolb and Helga-Maria Palm-Beulich, Composers in Bavaria, Volume 57, ed. v. Theresa Kalin and Franzpeter Messmer, Verlag Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2014, ISBN 978-3-86296-082-8 .
  • Meinrad Schmitt . Monograph together with Helga Hofmann-Sieber, Gabriele Puffer and Paul Wittrich, Composers in Bavaria, Volume 59, ed. v. Theresa Henkel and Franzpeter Messmer, Allitera, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86906-830-5 .
  • Klaus Hinrich Stahmer . Monograph together with Elisabeth Donoughue, Andreas C. Lehmann, Hartmut Lücke, Kilian Sprau, Christoph Taggatz, Christoph Wünsch, composers in Bavaria, vol. 60, ed. v. Theresa Henkel and Franzpeter Messmer, Allitera, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-909-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landshuter Hofmusiktage 2012. on landshuter-hofmusiktage.com
  2. ↑ Truthfulness in the vicissitudes of time. The Karl Amadeus Hartmann year as an opportunity for overdue recognition. nmz 2/2005 on nmz.de
personal data
SURNAME Messmer, Franzpeter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, journalist, festival director and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Geislingen an der Steige