Gerd Sannemüller

Gerd Sannemüller (born October 19, 1914 in Heiligenstadt / Eichsfeld , † June 13, 2008 in Kiel ) was a German composer , pianist and musicologist .

Life

Sannemüller passed his Abitur in Stralsund . He studied musicology with Arnold Schering and Georg Schünemann , history , philosophy and psychology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and school music at the Berlin School of Music Education and Church Music . He passed the exam for the higher teaching post. He then worked as a study assessor and pianist in Berlin. In the Second World War he was committed to military service. He later studied musicology with Hans Albrecht , Friedrich Blume and Kurt Gudewill , history and psychology at the University of Kiel . He received his PhD in 1961 with the work of the piano works by Maurice Ravel to Dr. phil. in Kiel.

He was a lecturer at the University of Education in Flensburg and since 1962 at the University of Education in Kiel . From 1965 to 1983 he was Professor of Musicology and Music Didactics and Director of the Institute for Music and its Didactics in Kiel. He was interested in the composers Maurice Ravel , Paul Hindemith and Béla Bartók as well as the Polish New Music by Witold Lutosławski and Karol Szymanowski . He was in contact with the Austrian composer Gottfried von Eine . Sannemüller was editor of the singing and play music of the Hindemith Complete Edition and co-author of the Hindemith yearbooks of the Hindemith Institute . He was also an external author for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . His compositions are regularly performed in the Kiel Theater. His brother was the violinist Horst Sannemüller (1918–2001), whom he often accompanied on the piano.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs / Editing

• The piano works by Maurice Ravel. (Attempt of a stylistic foundation). Dissertation, Kiel 1961
• Maurice Ravel. Daphnis and Chloé. 1st and 2nd suite (= masterpieces of music , 39). Fink Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7705-2167-6
• The “Plöner Musiktag” by Paul Hindemith (= sources and studies on the music history of Schleswig-Holstein , 4). Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1976, ISBN 3-529-06304-5
• Volume VIII: Singing and playing music I. In: Kurt von Fischer and Ludwig Finscher (eds.): Paul Hindemith. All works . Schott Music, Mainz 2002

Hindemith yearbooks

• The Philharmonic Concert by Paul Hindemith. In: Hindemith-Jahrbuch 6 (1977), pp. 76-103
• Utility music in the work of Paul Hindemith. In: Hindemith-Jahrbuch 21 (1992), pp. 26-46
• Hindemith Days in Lübeck (1932). In: Hindemith-Jahrbuch 28 (1999), pp. 273-295
• Hindemith and Schönberg. Stations in a relationship. In: Hindemith-Jahrbuch 32 (2003), pp. 235-253

Essays / specialist articles

• Ravel's Position in French Music. In: Wilfried Brennecke , Hans Haase (Ed.): Hans Albrecht in memoriam. Commemorative publication with contributions from friends and students . Bärenreiter, Kassel [u. a.] 1962, pp. 251-256.
• Béla Bartók's Suite Opus 14. Analysis of style and work. In: Schweizerische Musikzeitung - Schweizer Musikpädagogische Blätter 105 (1965), pp. 10–20
• “Classicism” in 20th century music. In: Schweizer Monatshefte 46 (1966/67), pp. 463–472
• New music in Poland . In: Schweizer Monatshefte 46 (1966/67), pp. 1053-1059
• The “Concerto for Orchestra” by Witold Lutosławski. In: Schweizerische Musikzeitung - Schweizer musikpädagogische Blätter 107 (1967), pp. 258–264.
• Karol Szymanowski . In: Musica 21 (1967), pp. 268-269
• The songs by Johannes Brahms based on poems by Klaus Groth. In: Annual edition of the Klaus Groth Society 16 (1972), pp. 23–35
• On the question of style with Karol Szymanowski. In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 133 (1972), pp. 436-438
• "Ma Mère l'Oye" by Maurice Ravel. Five pieces for children. In: Musik und Bildung 6 (1974), pp. 174–178
• The Sona for violin and violoncello by Maurice Ravel. In: Musikforschung 28 (1975), pp. 408-419
• Hindemith as a music teacher. In: Zeitschrift für Musikpädagogik 2 (1977) 4, pp. 49–58
• Witold Lutosławski's 2nd Symphony . In: Musik & Bildung 10 (1978), pp. 588-595
• Paul Hindemith's admonition to youth. In: Schweizer musikpädagogische Blätter 72 (1984), pp. 160–162
• Maurice Ravel: Boléro . In: Siegmund Helms, Helmuth Hopf (Hrsg.): Work analysis in examples . Bosse, Regensburg 1986, pp. 272-276
• Frederick the Great and Music. In: History in Science and Education 40 (1992), pp. 351-360
• Turning to symbolism. To the compositions for orchestra by Henri Dutilleux . In: Das Orchester 45 (1997) 3, pp. 8-11
• Language and music in the cantata “Goethe Briefe” by Tadeusz Baird . In: Klaus Hortschansky (ed.): Traditions - New approaches. For Anna Amalie Abert (1906–1996) . Schneider, Tutzing 1997, ISBN 3-7952-0878-5 , pp. 465-473
• "I have a passion of my own for the form of variation". On the “Variations on an own theme” by Johannes Brahms. In: Brahms Studies 13 (2002), pp. 149–160

The New Zurich Times

• "Almost too classic". Notes on the piano trio by Maurice Ravel . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 11, 1993
• Brahms and the language of poetry . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 29, 1994, p. 70
• "... give your best to others". The late Hindemith . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 11, 1995, p. 68
• "... the greatest perfection in Mozart". The importance of Mozart's work for Ravel . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 28, 1997, p. 69
• "... a logically necessary phenomenon". Béla Bartók and the “Atonal” . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 3, 1998, p. 66
• Mysterious poetry, fascination with sound. The “Trois Poèmes de Mallarmé” by Maurice Ravel . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , August 5, 2000, p. 69
• A musician friendship. Johannes Brahms and Richard Mühlfeld. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 1, 2003, p. 78

Discography

• Ensemble Sortisatio ( Querstand , 2004) with the Ensemble Sortisatio

See also

• Fischer-Sannemüller-Krumbiegel

literature

• Sannemüller, Gerd. In: Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann : Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstlerlexikon. Second part: additions and extensions since 1937 . Volume 2, Heinrichshofen, 15th edition, Wilhelmshaven 1978, ISBN 3-7959-0087-5 , p. 252.
• Gerd Sannemüller . In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 16th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-11-011754-1 , p. 3118 .
• Gerd Sannemüller. In: Werner Schwarz: Pomeranian Music History. Historical overview and pictures of life . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-412-04382-6 , p. 223.
• Gerd Sannemüller: Maurice Ravel. Daphnis and Chloé . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7705-2167-6 , p. 60. (Edition 39 of Masterpieces of Music)

Web links

• Works by Gerd Sannemüller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Gerd Sannemüller  in the German Digital Library
• Literature by Gerd Sannemüller in the bibliography of music literature

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personnel reports June 2008
2. ↑ Thomas Eickhoff: Political Dimensions of a Composers Biography in the 20th Century - Gottfried von One. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07169-5 , p. 61.