Gustav Adolf Theill

Gustav Adolf Theill (born February 7, 1924 in Remscheid ; † November 29, 1997 in Cologne ) was a German composer and musicologist .

Life

Theill was born the son of the Remscheid factory owner Gustav Theill and his wife Auguste. In his parental home, which was shaped by pietism and committed to the professing church , he came into contact with Protestant church music at an early age. The Protestant church made it possible for him to train as a part-time church musician (C-license). In the early 1960s he held a church musician position at a church in Cologne-Ostheim . His special love belonged to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He later dealt with Bach's work in his musicological writings; the tonal language of his compositions was based on the harmonies of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Max Reger . He attracted particular attention with the reconstruction of works by Johann Sebastian Bach that were lost or only preserved as fragments. His most important work was the reconstruction and completion of Bach's St. Mark 's Passion . Theill earned his living as an alternative practitioner in Cologne, where he ran a practice and from 1971 to 1980 also the Cologne thermal baths . Of his six children, especially his daughter who Karola Theill , who lives as a pianist in Berlin, and his son, the musicologist Hans-Joachim Theill, the musicality of his father inherited.

Fonts

• The Mark Passion by Joh. Seb. Bach (BWV 247)
• Contributions to the symbolic language of Johann Sebastian Bach

Sound carrier

• Mark Passion (Johanneskantorei Cologne-Klettenberg, head of Gerda Schaarwächter)

Compositions

• The Beatitudes (1947)
• We are in the middle of life
• Maundy Thursday Kyrie
• various chorale arrangements for organ
• The painter
• Mark Passion (reconstruction and completion)

Web links

• Works by and about Gustav Adolf Theill in the catalog of the German National Library