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Gerhard Werner Fahrt (born December 13, 1890 in Oberglogau , district Neustadt OS , province of Silesia ; † December 8, 1968 ) was a German music teacher and composer who composed diverse compositions and is still important today, especially for the accordion .

Life

Gerhard Strecke's parents Joseph and Auguste came from Glatz , a town with a musical tradition in Lower Silesia . The most important Glatzer composer was Eduard Tauwitz , who was still alive when Strecke was born , who had created four operas , a solemn mass and over 250 hymns . However, after his parents moved away, he was born in Upper Silesia, Oberglogau, which, in terms of music history, can claim to be the only Silesian place where Ludwig van Beethoven stayed. Since his father was, in addition to his teaching profession, also a choir director , the fourth-born Gerhard joined the church choir at an early age . He also received violin , piano and organ lessons . At the age of ten he moved to the Breslau Cathedral Choir, led by Max Filke .

At first he also went to school in Wroclaw , namely to the St. Matthias-Gymnasium , for the primary years he was sent to the grammar school of Patschkau , not far from the summer residence of the Wroclaw prince-bishops, Johannesberg Castle . There he made friends with the later composer Hermann Buchal, who was six years his senior . He first studied philology in Jena and Berlin , then musicology at the Royal Academic Institute for Church Music in Charlottenburg , where he graduated. At the Royal Academy of Arts he became a master student of Georg Schumann .

His war effort ended in French captivity. In 1920 he became a theory teacher at secondary schools in Neisse, Upper Silesia . At the same time he shone on the solo piano and was also a sought-after companion . In 1924, Buchal brought him to the Silesian Conservatory in Breslau as head of the music teacher’s seminar , before he took over the management of the conservatory in Bytom in 1936 and was appointed head of department at the Katowice Academy of Music in 1940 . During the Second World War he was a reserve officer in the Wehrmacht for some time , but had completed his service before the change, but his two sons were in combat in the final years of the war. He found a new job at the State University Institute for Music Education in Trossingen after the end of the war and the resulting expulsion . In the stronghold of the accordion industry he began to turn to the accordion, relatively late, but with passionate devotion. Retired as a full professor in 1953, he composed at Eggerscheidt , his new place of residence , which is now part of Ratingen , and advocated performances of Silesian music until he died in 1968.

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In both his old and new homeland, he was involved in artist circles, although the preservation of the music of Silesia was particularly important to him. He was one of the most thorough connoisseurs and tireless promoters of Silesian music culture, without, of course, limiting himself to that. In 1953 he wrote the collection of songs from the Silesians , wrote magazine articles and newspaper articles with a focus on the musical legacy of the lost homeland and advised the music historian Hans Joachim Moser on his Silesia chapter for the basic work Music of the German Tribes , published in 1957 .

His musical oeuvre comprises 101 titles, almost half of which were lost in the war and post-war events. The vocal section includes around 160 art songs for voice and piano, numerous folk song arrangements for different choirs, free settings of demanding texts for four to eight-part choirs, as well as - exemplary - the cantata Oberschlesien based on poems by Hans Niekrawietz. In the spiritual sector he composed unanimous hymns and betsing masses , three polyphonic Latin masses and a requiem , offertories and motets for three to eight-part choir. The instrumental area includes three symphonies for large orchestra, ten orchestral suites , concerts and concert pieces for violin and viola. As chamber music, he composed a string trio , five string quartets and variations on a Danish folk song for wind quintet and piano. For keyboard instruments there are sonatas , variations, character pieces from his pen and, as the last extensive cycle, 24 preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys for organ. His gigue from 1946 is dedicated to the accordionist and conductor Rudolf Würthner.

The central guiding principle of Strecke was the simplicity, in order to enable an understanding without explanation. In other composers he observed how their earlier enthusiasm for change was channeled into calm paths of tradition with increasing experience and maturity. And so he himself preserved the forms and stylistic elements of European music history, whereby he remained largely attached to the late Romanticism . Evidence of this is given above all by the folkloric works, from the pure collection of songs through folk song and folk dance arrangements to the orchestral suites No. 4 op. 43 , No. 7 op. 86 and No. 8 op. 89 .

His works were performed more frequently in Silesia after he had received honors from the University of Wroclaw on his 50th birthday and the Upper Silesian Music Prize three years later. Outside of Silesia, he was able to receive recognition for his offers at the conference for the renewal of Catholic church music in 1930. The eight-part Prooemion was sung on July 18, 1937 at the opening of the “ House of German Art ” in Munich . The Silesian String Quartet performed the 5th String Quartet (Serenade) in many places. After the Second World War, the orchestral suites and the organ compositions were recorded and broadcast by several West German broadcasters.

Awards

Sheet music (selection)

  • Gerhard Route: Ten sacred chants . Böhm & Sohn, Augsburg, DNB  100640032X (probably 1950).
  • Gerhard Fahrt: Concert piece for violin and small orchestra . Ries & Erler, Berlin 1954, DNB  1006403337 .
  • Gerhard Fahrt: Sonatina for accordion. 1946 . Hohner, Trossingen 1957, DNB  358046041 .
  • Gerhard route: Six Eichendorf-Tricinia op.93 . Volumes 1-6. Böhm & Sohn, Augsburg 1957, DNB  1006404392 .
  • Gerhard route: Four old Marienlieder (=  The Choir Collection . Volume A 51). Pustet, Regensburg, DNB  1006415734 (probably 1957).
  • Gerhard Fahrt: Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor, Op. 97 . Böhm & Sohn, Augsburg 1960, DNB  1006405496 .
  • Gerhard Route: Selected Organ Works (=  Selected Organ Works . Volume 1 ). Laumann, [Dülmen] 1974, DNB  997791527 .
  • Gerhard Fahrt: 24 Preludes and Fugues for Organ op.101 . Part 1 (1983) and 2 (1985). Laumann, Dülmen, DNB  350 325 480 .
  • Gerhard Fahrt: Four performance pieces for accordion . Hohner, Trossingen, DNB  350944539 (created in 1946, copyright notice from 1957, probably 1994).
  • Gerhard Fahrt: Upper Silesian Dance Suite for Orchestra op.43 . Ries & Erler, Berlin, DNB  357174976 (study score , probably 1998).

Primary and secondary literature

  • Benno Nehlert, Gerhard route: The bells of Sankt Jakob. A festival in 3 acts (=  library of the "Heimatblätter des Neissegau" . Volume 1 ). Publishing house of the "Neisser Zeitung", Neisse 1925, DNB  36193629X .
  • Gerhard route (ed.): Songs of the Silesians. Collected from printed and unprinted sources . Tonger, Rodenkirchen, Cologne 1953, DNB  454928246 .
  • Gerhard route. For his 75th birthday on December 13, 1965 . [With a] catalog of works (=  series of publications Kulturwerk Schlesien ). Verlag Kulturwerk Schlesien, Würzburg 1965, DNB  454928238 .
  • Gerhard Route: A self-portrayal . In: on behalf of the Working Group for Silesian Song and Silesian Music by Gerhard Pankalla, Gotthard Speer (Ed.): Contemporary Silesian Composers. A documentation . tape 1 . Laumann, Dülmen, DNB  800156633 (with bibliography, probably 1973).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Rudolf Walter: Significant Silesians. Route Gerhard. In: sosnitza.com. Retrieved on June 12, 2014 (from "Ostdeutsche Biographie").
  2. ^ Arno Herzig : Glatz / Kłodzko. In: Online encyclopedia on the culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe. Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE), December 13, 2012, accessed on June 12, 2014 (Section 3. History and Culture. Music).
  3. ↑ a b c d Gerhard route. Profile. (No longer available online.) In: schott-musik.de. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved June 12, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schott-musik.de
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Arnold Schmitz: route . In: Friedrich Blume (Ed.): The music in past and present. General encyclopedia of music . With the collaboration of numerous music researchers at home and abroad. tape 12 Schoberlechner - Symphonic Poetry. Bärenreiter, Basel, London, New York 1965, pp. 1514 f .
  5. ↑ a b Memorial days 2008 1st quarter . In: Landsmannschaft Schlesien - Lower and Upper Silesia (ed.): Schlesische Nachrichten. Newspaper for Silesia . No. 24 / 2007-01 / 2008 . Königswinter December 15, 2007, Zeitgeschehen, p. 7 ( yumpu.com [accessed June 12, 2014]).
personal data
SURNAME Line, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Route, Gerhard Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberglogau , district of Neustadt OS
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1968