Gunther Morche

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Gunther Morche (born December 7, 1940 in Mannheim ; † November 15, 2012 ) was a German musicologist , organist , organ expert , music researcher, music editor, sheet music editor, Heidelberg university professor and university music director .

Career

Gunther Morche began his theology studies in Heidelberg and continued it in Paris , where he also became an organ student of Marie-Claire Alains . He then worked as a vicar in Wolfisheim near Strasbourg , where he took further organ lessons from Michel Chapuis . He then turned to musicology, where he received his doctorate in Heidelberg on a topic on classical French organ music. From the end of 1985 he spent a three-year research stay at the German Historical Institute in Rome .

As an academic councilor in Heidelberg, he held the post of university music director; He also taught at the Karlsruhe University of Music and the Mannheim University of Music .

The spectrum of his research ranged “from the motet of the 13th century to Ligeti and serialism.” Morche specialized in particular in the Italian vocal art of the 17th century, which he not only performed, but also transferred and transferred for practical use published (Thomas Schipperges (Vita): "currently around 250 works by 180 composers").

Writings and music publications

  • Pattern and imitation . (Dissertation 1975) An investigation into classical French organ music . Bern 1979 ( New Heidelberg Studies in Musicology 8 )
  • Comments on an obsolete topos . About organ music, in: Actaorganolocica 17, 1984
  • Ed. Together with Thomas Schipperges with the collaboration of Kara Kusan-Windweh: Reinhold Hammerstein. Writings , Vol. 1: Music, Text and Context , Vol. 2: Music and Image , Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 2000.
  • Sources of Italian concertos of the Seicento QUICS (together with the physicist Hermann Hinsch): Title at IMSLM
  • Francesco Foggia : Motetti a cura di Gunther Morche. Fondazione Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Centro Studi Palestriniani, 1988.
  • Giovanni Valentini Kapellmeister at the Kaiserhof (special cover - December 2001) together with Silke Leopold (author) and Joachim Steinheuer (author)
  • Stefano Bernardi: Responsoria matutinalia per Hebdomadem Sanctam = The responsories to Matutin on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday (Monuments of Music in Salzburg, vol. 20. 2012).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Vita of the University of Heidelberg.
  2. ↑ See Vita of the University of Heidelberg.
  3. ^ Sources of Italian Concerti des Seicento (QUICS) ; Vocal title at IMSLP
personal data
SURNAME Morche, Gunther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, musicologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 2012