Gottfried Veit

Gottfried Veit

Gottfried Veit (born August 13, 1943 in Bozen , South Tyrol ) is a South Tyrolean composer, clarinetist, conductor, choir director and honorary regional conductor of the Association of South Tyrolean music bands .

Life

Gottfried Veit grew up in Bolzano, where he still lives today. At a young age he learned to play the clarinet and tried himself as a self-taught composer . He went to the Salzburg Mozarteum to there music education to study. At the Conservatory "Claudio Monteverdi" Bolzano he obtained a diploma in clarinet. He also passed the Kapellmeister exam in Salzburg .

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As a composer

Veit composed over 300 works from the fields of brass music , chamber music , songs and choral pieces, as well as the incidental music for Gerhart Hauptmann's comedy Schluck und Jau . In many of his compositions his connection to his homeland is expressed, including Tyrolean heroes , the concert overture Etschland , the romantic clay paintings Meran , Tyrol Castle , The Sciliar and the Empire of the Dolomites or Andreas Hofer's fanfare . On the other hand, works from his pen such as "The Last Judgment", "The Trumpets of Jericho", "The Four Temperaments", "Passion Music", "The Oracle" etc. point to the future. Gottfried Veit also wrote choral music such as the "Francis Mass" ", the" Markus-Messe ", the" St. Josefs-Messe ", the" Cäcilien-Messe "or the" Ancilla Domini-Messe ".

As a conductor

Veit conducted, among others, the South Tyrolean regional wind orchestra, the youth wind orchestra of the Association of South Tyrolean music bands, the Bolzano wind orchestra, the music band Zwölfmalgrei / Bozen, the St. Michael / Eppan civic band, the Bolzano youth band , the Gelf choir, the children's choir of the Leonhard Lechner choir , the Teacher's choir of the GOB-Bozen, the church choir "St. Cäcilia" Vilpian as well as the large Bolzano brass ensemble.

As an author

Gottfried Veit also wrote various books and a large number of specialist articles. Here are some examples:

• The wind music - study of the historical development of the wind music. Helbling Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1984, ISBN 3-850610-33-0 .
• The brass orchestra today - who is playing what? Tips and tricks for contemporary instrumentation for wind orchestras. Verlag Tatzer (MVT 0064), 1999.
• What you should know as a clarinetist. Obermayer, 2005, ISBN 3-927781-32-0 .
• What you should know as a flautist. Obermayer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-927781-34-4 .
• What you should know as a trombonist. Obermayer 2007, ISBN 978-3-927781-36-8 .
• What a horn player should know. Obermayer, 2008, ISBN 978-3-927781-46-7 .
• What you should know as a timpanist. Obermayer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-927781-55-9 .
• What you should know as a flugelhornist. Obermayer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-927781-56-6 .
• What a tenor horn player should know. Obermayer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-943037-02-9 .
• What you should know as a tuba player. Obermayer, 2012, ISBN 978-3-943037-18-0 .
• Wind music - milestones in the historical development of wind and wind music. Obermayer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-943037-25-8 .
• What you should know as an oboist. Obermayer, 2014, ISBN 978-3-943037-27-2 .
• What you should know as a bassoonist. Obermayer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-943037-37-1 .
• Concert guide. 100 key works for wind orchestra and wind ensembles. Obermayer, Buchloe 2016, ISBN 978-3-943037-42-5 .
• What you should know as a drummer . Tatzer 2018, MVT library series no .: 0529

Other activities

Since 1995 Gottfried Veit has been a member of the "Brass Music" committee of the International Music Association CISM . He also acts as a juror at national and international music competitions. Gottfried Veit has been a member of the South Tyrolean Artists Association (SKB) since 1995 .

Web links

• Homepage of Gottfried Veit