Günter Bialas

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Günter Bialas (born July 19, 1907 in Bielschowitz , Upper Silesia ; † July 8, 1995 in Glonn , Upper Bavaria ) was a German composer and university professor .

Life

Bialas received piano and theory lessons in Katowice from 1922 to 1925 from Fritz Lubrich (1888–1971), a student of Max Reger . After graduating from the German minority grammar school in Katowice, he began studying musicology , German and history at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Breslau in 1926 . From 1927 to 1931 he studied school music at the Prussian Academy in Berlin . From 1934 to 1937 he taught at the Ursuline women 's high school in Breslau-Carlowitz.

He also took composition lessons with Max Trapp in Berlin. He met Sergiu Celibidache through Romanian friends and prepared him for the entrance examination at the Berlin Music Academy. In 1939 he was appointed lecturer in music theory and composition at the Institute for Music Education at the University of Breslau. After military service and imprisonment (1941–1945) he fled with his wife, the singer Gerda Specht, from Silesia to Bavaria and in 1946 became head of the Munich Bach Society .

From 1947 to 1959 he worked as a composition teacher at the Northwest German Music Academy, today's Detmold University of Music . In 1959 he moved to the State University of Music in Munich as a professor of composition and taught there until 1972.

The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts , whose music department Bialas headed between 1974 and 1979, awarded the Gerda and Günter Bialas Prize for Composition every two years from 1998 to 2013, which is financed by the GEMA Foundation .

After his death, a street was named after him in Glonn, his last place of residence in Upper Bavaria. An additional sign indicates the namesake and his life dates.

Selection of works

Stage works

ballet

  • Meyerbeer Paraphrases (Premiere 1974 Hamburg)

Oratorio

  • In the beginning - creation story after Martin Buber (1961) for three echo voices, choir and orchestra
  • Lamento di Orlando (1983–85) for baritone, mixed choir and orchestra

Cantatas

  • Indian cantata based on indigenous poems (1949) for baritone, chamber choir, 8 instruments and percussion
  • Prizes based on Martin Buber (1964) for baritone and orchestra

orchestra

  • Romanzero (1955)
  • Seranata (1955)
  • Sinfonia Piccola (1960)
  • Forest Music (1977)
  • The Way to Eisenstadt - Haydn Fantasies (1980)
  • March Fantasy (1987)
  • Lander Fantasy (1989)

Concerts

  • Concerto Lirico for piano and orchestra (1967)
  • Introitus - Exodus for organ and orchestra (1976)
  • Music for piano and orchestra (1990)
  • Second Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (1992)
  • Funeral music: in memoriam Hansjörg Schmitthenner for viola and orchestra (1994)

Chamber music

  • Music for 11 strings (1970)
  • 5 string quartets (1935, 1949, 1968, 1986, 1991)
  • 2 saxophone quartets (Six Bagatelles 1986, Art of Canon 1991)
  • Trio (1981) for violin, violoncello and piano
  • Herbstzeit (1982) for string trio and piano
  • Neun Bagatellen (1984) for wind trio, string trio and piano
  • Moments musicaux III (1975–76) for clarinet, violoncello and piano
  • Five duets for viola and violoncello (1988)

Solo works

  • Lamento, four intermezzi and march (1986) for piano

Honors, memberships

Pupil of Günter Bialas

literature

  • Wilhelm Keller: Günter Bialas . Schneider, Tutzing 1984, ISBN 3-7952-0431-3 , ( composers in Bavaria 5).
  • Gabriele E. Meyer: "No sound too much". Günter Bialas in personal testimonies and in the mirror of his time . Bärenreiter, Kassel et al. 1997, ISBN 3-7618-1396-1 .
  • Gabriele E. Meyer: Günter Bialas - catalog raisonné . Bärenreiter, Kassel et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1565-4 .
  • Andreas Weissenbäck : Sacra Musica. Lexicon of Catholic Church Music . Publishing house of Augustinus-Druckerei, Klosterneuburg 1937.
  • Nicolaus A. Huber : The composer Günter Bialas in Nicolaus A. Huber: Durchleuchtungen , Wiesbaden 2000 pp. 43–49, ISBN 3-7651-0328-4
  • Nicolaus A. Huber: Günter Bialas: Introit Exodus for Organ and Orchestra (1983) , in Nicolaus A. Huber: fluoroscopy , Wiesbaden 2000, pp 167-207, ISBN 3-7651-0328-4
  • About Bialas performances by the Dresden Kreuzchor, in: Matthias Herrmann (Ed.): Dresdner Kreuzchor and contemporary choral music. World premieres between Richter and Kreile , Marburg 2017, pp. 94–95, 218–219, 316, 318 (Schriften des Dresdner Kreuzchor, Vol. 2) ISBN 978-3-8288-3906-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the City of Munich: Golden Medal of Honor of the City of Munich (accessed on March 28, 2012)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Bialas, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielschowitz
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1995
Place of death Glonn