Frieder Liebendörfer

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Frieder Liebendörfer (also Friedrich Liebendörfer ; born January 14, 1934 ) is a Swiss music teacher , choir director and author .

Life

Liebendörfer was the son of the theologian at the Basel Mission and hymn composer Friedrich Traugott Liebendörfer (1892-1970), whose melody for the text Die Sach ist Dein, Herr Jesu Christ (No. 360) in the hymn book of the Evangelical Reformed Churches in German-speaking Switzerland 1952 ( RKG ), which was not incorporated into the new RG (No. 801) in 1998 .

In 1955 he was appointed to succeed Ernst Sigg at the Humanist High School as a singing and music teacher. Among other things, he led the boys' choir there in a performance of Hermann Suter's oratorio Le Laudi di San Francesco d'Assisi at the Basler Münster with the soloists Edith Mathis , Norma Procter , Eric Tappy and Fernando Corena under the overall direction of Hans Münch , one of whom Recording exists.

After completing his music theory studies , he taught at the grammar schools in Liestal and Muttenz ; later he was also a lecturer in music theory and choir conducting at the adult education center in Basel. In 1964 he became Paul Sacher's assistant in the Basel Chamber Choir. In 1973 he built a school orchestra in Liestal, which he directed until 1994 and which still exists today. In 1979, Liebendörfer founded the Motettenchor Region Basel in the tradition of the Sigg motet choir in St. Elisabethen and directed it until 1992.

Liebendörfer worked for several years as an organist at the fortified church of St. Arbogast in Muttenz and was on the central board of the Swiss Church Choral Association (SKGB). From 1979 to 2019 he was also an active member of the Association of Choral Conducting Northwestern Switzerland .

Like his father, he also composes songs. His pieces Dans les jardins d'mon père and Praise of Laziness were published in the songbook Geselliges Singen 3 of the SKGB, which he also edited.

After his retirement, Liebendörfer gave lectures on music history, among others. about Paul Sacher, Hans Huber and Johannes Brahms and wrote articles for magazines such as Musik und Gottesdienst (MuGo). Since then he has also appeared increasingly as a piano accompanist at readings, among others with his wife, the writer Helen Liebendörfer , with whom he has been married since 1963.

Publications

  • As a translator (with Peter Ernst Bernoulli): Hear my screams, oh God . Score. Niederteufen, Aarau: Swiss Church Choral Association, Pastorini edition, 1986
  • As co-editor (with Matthias Blumer et al.): Geselliges Singen 3 . Zurich: Swiss Church Choral Association, 1993
  • César Franck : Your hand, mighty God . Arrangement for smaller choirs. In: Music supplement 1994: "From the French-speaking area" . Bern: SKGB, 1994
  • As co-editor (with Theophil Bruppacher): 100 Years of the Swiss Church Choral Association 1896–1996. A chronicle in two parts . Zurich: CVB, 1996.
  • Paul Sacher (1906-1999). On the 100th birthday , in: Friends of the Klingental Museum. Annual report , Basel 2006, p. 19ff.
  • Brahms in Basel , in: Friends of the Klingental Museum . Annual report , Basel 2008, p. 8ff.
  • Hans Huber (1852-1921). Pianist, composer and great patron of Basel's musical life , in: Friends of the Klingental Museum. Annual report , Basel 2009, p. 53ff.
  • Organs in the Basel Minster. From the Middle Ages to today , in: Friends of the Klingental Museum. Annual report , Basel 2014, p. 79ff.
  • (with Helen Liebendörfer) Passion concerts in Basel Minster , in: Luzius Müller, Hans-Adam Ritter, Roger Thiriet (eds.): Celebrations. Why we have our holidays , Zurich: TVZ 2015, p. 49f.

literature

  • Hummi Lehr: Helen and Frieder Liebendörfer , in: Sperber-Zeitung , No. 7 (2009), p. 6.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evangelical Mission Magazine . Basileia Verlag, 1954 (p. 123)
  2. ↑ List of RKG songs in the RG, with differences (PDF)
  3. ^ Hans Peter Schanzlin : The school and church musician Ernst Sigg . In: Basler Stadtbuch , 1987, p. 102.
  4. ^ Revue musicale suisse , Volume 109. Hug & Company, 1969 (p. 171)
  5. ↑ Offer on platten-laden.ch , accessed on July 5, 2020
  6. ↑ Liestal aktuell , No. 757 (September 2011), p. 2.
  7. ↑ Gemeindebrief the ref. Parish Muttenz, May 2010.
  8. ↑ List of songs by the March church choir in Reichenburg (PDF)
  9. ↑ The SKGB choir books and music supplements with a link to the PDF
personal data
SURNAME Liebendörfer, Frieder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liebendörfer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musician and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1934