Gerhard Walterskirchen

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Gerhard Walterskirchen (Alpenforum 2018 - Salzburg Cathedral)

Gerhard Walterskirchen (born October 29, 1939 in Kemmelbach , market town of Neumarkt an der Ybbs ) is an Austrian musicologist .

Life

Walterskirchen was born in Kemmelbach in western Lower Austria . He passed the final examination at the public collegiate high school of the Benedictines in Seitenstetten . He then studied law, organ, school music, musicology, art history, pedagogy and philosophy in Vienna and Salzburg. He initially worked as a music educator at the music-pedagogical federal high school in Salzburg-Nonntal. In 1975 he became a contract assistant at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Salzburg . In 1982 he did his doctorate on "Organs and Organ Builders in Salzburg from the Middle Ages to the Present". Until his retirement he was an assistant professor there .

Publications (selection)

  • Organ spring in Salzburg . In: Singende Kirche , Vol. 22 (1974/75), No. 3, p. 134.
  • With Kurt Birsak : The organ instruments in the Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum , annual journal, Salzburg 1977/78.
  • A "Silent Night Organ" for Oberndorf. In: Leaves of the Silent Night Society , volume 6, year 1980, p. 4.
  • Organ building and organ music in the 19th century in Salzburg . In: Bourgeois Music Culture in the 19th Century in Salzburg , Symposium Report 1980, edited by Rudolph Angermüller, ed. from the Mozarteum Foundation , Salzburg 1981, pp. 104–111.
  • Organs and organ builders in Salzburg from the Middle Ages to the present . Contribution to 700 years of organ building in the city of Salzburg, dissertation University of Salzburg 1982 (Ms).
  • Building history of the organ of the university church . In: The organ of the University Church Salzburg . Consecration of the renovated Mauracher organ July 10, 1982 , Salzburg 1982, pp. 13-19.
  • From the organ chronicle of our parish church . In: The Italian organ at St. Erhard in Nonntal . Festschrift for the consecration of the organ, Salzburg 1984 o. P.
  • On the history of choral music in church services . Archdiocese of Salzburg, in: Church choirs of Austria . History of choral music in church services and documentation of church choirs in Austria and South Tyrol (edition A), ed. by Johann Trummer, Graz 1987, pp. 12-25.
  • On the history of the great organ in Salzburg Cathedral 1300–1984 , in: The great organ in Salzburg Cathedral . Festschrift for the consecration of the new large organ in Salzburg Cathedral in 1988, ed. from the metropolitan chapter of Salzburg. Editing: Ernst Hintermaier , Salzburg 1988.
  • With Petrus Eder: The Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter in Salzburg at the time of Mozart: Music and musicians - art and culture. [Appears in connection with the 1991 exhibition "St. Peter at the time of Mozart" in the rooms of the Johann Michael Haydn memorial in the courtyard of St. Peter in Salzburg] . Publishing house St. Peter, Salzburg 1991.
  • Improvisational Modalities in 18th Century Instrumental Music . In: Music of Central Europe in the 2nd half of the 18th century. Report on the International Musicological Conference in Bratislava, March 23-25, 1992 , ed. by Pavol Polák. - Bratislava: Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences 1993, pp. 127–133. (Congressus internationales musicologici Bratislavenses 1).
  • Mozart's Salzburg church music yesterday and today . Third part of the SN series about the Mozart venues in Salzburg, in: Salzburger Nachrichten 52 (1996), Salzburg, July 9, 1996, p. 9.
  • With Stefan Engels : Musica sacra mediaevalis: Salzburg, June 6th - 9th, 1996, congress report = sacred music of Salzburg in the Middle Ages . EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 1998, ISBN 3-88096-881-0 (= studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches . Supplementary volume 40)
  • Heinrich Franz Biber (1644–1704): Church and instrumental music. Congress report . Selke, Salzburg 1997, ISBN 3-901353-15-1 (= publications on Salzburg's music history 6).
  • Music - works - composers . In: Hanswurst and magic game. The baroque university theater in Salzburg , ed. from the Salzburg Museum Carolino-Augusteum . - (Salzburg: Salzburger Museum Carolino-Augusteum) (2004), pp. 18-19. (Salzburger Museumhefte 6).
  • Jürg Stenzl , Ernst Hintermaier, Gerhard Walterskirchen (eds.): Salzburg Music History. From the Middle Ages to the 21st Century , Verlag Anton Pustet , Salzburg - Munich 2005.
    • Organ building , pp. 364-370.
  • "... he is the pride of the city forever." The rise and fall of the organ builder Ludwig Mooser . Festschrift Alfred Reichling for his 70th birthday, ed. by Roland Behrens and Christoph Grohmann, Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde 2005 (special edition), pp. 525–536.
  • Mozart and the organ. "the king of all instruments" . In: Between Heaven & Earth. Mozart's sacred music . (Catalog with audio CD for the 31st special show of the Cathedral Museum in Salzburg, April 8th to November 5th, 2006), ed. by Peter Keller and Armin Kircher . - (Salzburg :) Cathedral Museum in Salzburg, (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner), (Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag) (2006), pp. 47–49.
  • The Sacrae Cantiones by Sebastian Hasenknopf, dedicated to the Weitmoser brothers, in the context of the music of the 2nd half of the 16th century . In: Communications from the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg 149, 2009, p. 75.
  • With Gottfried Franz Kasparek: The history of the organ in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation . In: Propter Homines Organ in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg . (Festschrift; International Mozarteum Foundation 2010).
  • With Lars Laubhold: sound sources. Festschrift for Ernst Hintermaier on his 65th birthday. Symposium report. - (Munich :) Strube (2010). (Publications on the history of music in Salzburg 9).
  • The historic carillon of the Salzburg Residence . Problems of a restoration , in: Mozart in the center. Festschrift for Manfred Hermann Schmid for his 60th birthday , ed. by Ann-Katrin Zimmermann and Klaus Aringer. - Tutzing: Hans Schneider 2010, pp. 37–49.
  • "... BECAUSE THE ORGANIST ALWAYS UNDERSTANDS BEST WHAT HIS NEED IS" . AN UNKNOWN ORGAN REPORT BY FRANZ XAVER GRUBER . In: De Editione Musices . Festschrift Gerhard Croll for his 65th birthday, ed. by Wolfgang Gratzer and Andrea Lindmayr, Salzburg 1992, pp. 339–347.
  • Edited with Gerhard Croll : Bernhard Paumgartner : Memories . 2nd revised edition, Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde, Salzburg 2001 (= publications on the history of music in Salzburg, vol. 7).
  • Ed. With Ernst Hintermaier, Jürg Stenzl : Salzburg Music History: From the Middle Ages to the 21st Century . Pustet, Salzburg a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-7025-0511-3 .
  • Sound sources: Festschrift for Ernst Hintermaier on his 65th birthday. Symposium report . Strube, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89912-140-7 (= publications on Salzburg's music history . Vol. 9).
  • With Sabine Krohn: extremely popular and well-known ... Johann Michael Haydn: 1737–1806. Life, work, time . Carus, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89948-174-7 .

literature

  • Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, Thomas Hochradner (Ed.): On your own terrain. Contributions to Salzburg's music history. Festschrift for Gerhard Walterskirchen for his 65th birthday . Selke, Salzburg 2004, ISBN 3-901353-32-1 .

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Walterskirchen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhold Meyer: About the graduates of the Stiftsgymnasium Seitenstetten, who made music their profession . In: Benediktinerstift Seitenstetten (ed.): Public collegiate high school of the Benedictines in Seitenstetten. 21st annual report. School year 2014/15 . Seitenstetten [undated], pp. 165-187. here: 184.
personal data
SURNAME Walterskirchen, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Kemmelbach / Ybbs