Gerhard Vogt (music publisher)

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Gerhard Vogt (born February 2, 1942 in Schweinfurt ) is a German music publisher , music teacher and cultural promoter.

Life

He is the son of the businessman Karl Vogt and Solina Michel. A successful athlete at regional and state level at a young age, Vogt shifted his focus to music in the 1960s. As a guitar and mandolin teacher, he was soon able to show great success. Many of his students were federal prize winners in the "Jugend musiziert" competition. Many made music their profession and are now active as performing artists or educators. During this extremely successful activity, Vogt founded the music publisher Vogt & Fritz together with the Rosenheim florist Annemarie Fritz in 1973 , which has developed from the original Zupfmusik publishing house into a recognized specialist sheet music publisher for contemporary music and is active worldwide. At the end of the 1990s a CD company was added ( labels Vogt & Fritz SOUND and Amphion ). 1990 Vogt handed over his company to his wife Elke Tober-Vogt; In 2008 the music publisher was handed over to Edition 49.

In addition to his professional activity, Vogt has always been involved in numerous honorary positions. So he founded u. a. the City Association of Music , the Schweinfurt Chamber Orchestra , the Schweinfurt Chamber Choir , the Schweinfurt Children's Choir and launched the Viva la musica event in Schweinfurt. For more than 30 years he was the chairman and conductor of the mandolin and lute choir , with which he won the championship at the 1986 German Orchestra Competition . For several decades he was President of the Bavarian State Association of the Federation of German Plucking Musicians , founded and directed both the Bavarian State Youth Plucking Orchestra - at that time (1970) the first national youth orchestra of all branches in the FRG - and the Bavarian State Plucked Orchestra and created a network of training Training courses all over Bavaria. Numerous concert tours have taken him as a musician or conductor to numerous countries in Europe, the United States , Canada , Asia , Australia and New Zealand . A series of CD recordings under his direction document this creative period. He was also repeatedly invited across Europe as a juror to competitions or as a leader of workshops and seminars . After the fall of the Wall , Vogt also did recognized development work in the field of plucked music when founding the professional associations in Saxony and Thuringia .

Already at the end of the 1960s he started a concert series with the Schweinfurt Guitar Week, which brought the best-known artists from all over the world and all styles to Schweinfurt with more than 100 concerts up until the 1990s and attracted great national visitors. The International Schweinfurt Summer Seminar , which was founded by Vogt and carried out himself for 28 years , has been attended by around 1,400 participants from all European countries over the years.

Two major events brought and organized by Vogt to Schweinfurt attracted a lot of attention: More than 1,500 visitors came to the international plucked orchestra festival in 1986 and around 5,000 musicians presented themselves at 35 concerts in 1996 for the anniversary weekend of the Bavarian State Association of Singing and Making Music in numerous venues within the city .

Since 1990 Vogt has devoted himself in particular to the annual international music competitions he founded and established in Schweinfurt, the Musikforum Schweinfurt for chamber music (Michael Tröster competition for guitar duos, Gerhard Vogt chamber music competition), composition (Herbert Baumann composition competition) and solo playing (Yasuo -Kuwahara competition for solo mandolin) and for amateur orchestras (plucked or string orchestras), whose participants and visitors come from almost all parts of the world in addition to Germany and Europe. Several foundations for the promotion of music were initiated or set up by him. He is also chairman of the Herbert Baumann Foundation founded in 1998 , the "Stiftung Musikforum Schweinfurt" (2007), "Gunsenheimer Vogt Foundation" (2000) and others.

Vogt is married to the publisher and composer Elke Tober-Vogt.

Awards

  • Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1988)
  • City Silver Medal of the City of Schweinfurt (1996)
  • Cross of Merit 1st Class (2001)
  • Honorary President of the Federation of German Plucked Musicians, State Association of Bavaria
  • Honorary Chairman of the Schweinfurt Music Association

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto J. Groeg (Ed.): Who's who in the arts , Who's Who-Book & Pub., 1978, ISBN 392122022X or ISBN 9783921220221 , page 338 ( excerpt )
  2. ↑ List of music foundations
personal data
SURNAME Vogt, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music publisher, music teacher and cultural promoter
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinfurt