Hellmut Wormsbächer

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Hellmut Wormsbächer (born September 24, 1925 in Garstedt , Pinneberg district , † April 14, 2020 in Hamburg ) was a German choir director , composer and conductor .

Hellmut Wormsbächer

Life

Hellmut Wormsbächer received his musical training in Frankfurt am Main with Kurt Thomas at the Musisches Gymnasium . Later he studied music director at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg with Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg . He completed further studies in the areas of singing, piano and composition.

In 1946 Hellmut Wormsbächer founded the Bergedorfer Chamber Choir , which he directed until 2001 and which gave highly regarded concerts at home and abroad. Numerous recordings as well as radio and television broadcasts with well-known soloists and orchestras have been produced with the Bergedorfer Kammerchor . In 1986 the choir was honored by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg with the Senator Biermann Ratjen Medal for its artistic services to the city of Hamburg.

From 1947 Hellmut Wormsbächer took over the folk choirs Altona and Barmbek, as well as the Brahms Choir Bergedorf, which together form the Hamburg oratorio choir . He led the choir until 1995 and performed with it in the Hamburger Musikhalle ( Laeiszhalle ) not only the well-known masses and oratorios, but also larger works that were less well known at the time (several Hamburg premieres ).

In 1969 Hellmut Wormsbächer founded the Bergedorfer Children's and Youth Choir, which he directed until 1994.

Invitations to guest conductors led Hellmut Wormsbächer to Japan (Tokyo) in 1988 and 1990.

For more than thirty years Hellmut Wormsbächer worked as a lecturer in choral conducting at the Working Group of German Choir Associations in Schleswig-Holstein, where he taught the upper level. Many of his compositions and arrangements for choir are available as print editions from music publishers.

Hellmut Wormsbächer died on April 14, 2020 at the age of 94 in Hamburg-Bergedorf.

Awards

  • Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • Johannes Brahms Medal of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
  • Appointment as "Choir Director" by the Working Group of German Choir Associations
  • Handel Ring of the Association of German Concert Choirs
  • "Golden Badge of Honor" of the German Singers Association
  • Heinrich Pausen Medal of the Schleswig-Holstein Singing Association

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hellmut Wormsbächer biography on bergedorfer-kammerchor.de, accessed on September 24, 2015
  2. ↑ Bergedorfer Kammerchor in the Hamburger Abendblatt, accessed on November 1, 2015
  3. ↑ This is how two Wormsbächer choirs celebrate , Bergedorfer Zeitung, accessed on May 2, 2016
  4. ↑ Founder of the Bergedorfer Kammerchor and choir director from 1946 to 2001, honorary member of the Bergedorfer Kammerchor since 2001 , accessed on September 24, 2015
  5. ^ Ambitious singers on Deutschland Radio Kultur on January 9, 2009, accessed on September 24, 2015
  6. ↑ Hellmut Wormsbächer turns 70 on Sunday. Five decades of musical life in Hamburger Abendblatt on September 23, 1995, accessed on September 24, 2015
  7. ↑ Hellmut Wormsbächer (choir director 1947–1995) Hamburger Oratorienchor, accessed September 24, 2015
  8. ^ Bergedorfer Children's Choir , accessed on September 24, 2015
  9. ↑ Now these alumni are urgently needed: On the last weekend in September there will be a reunion in the Nettelnburger Bugenhagen community - with the choir founders Hellmut Wormsbächer and Gerda Urban as guests of honor. Bergedorfer Zeitung, accessed September 24, 2015
  10. ^ Hellmut Wormsbächer at Discogs , accessed on September 24, 2015
  11. ^ Notes by Hellmut Wormsbächer , accessed on September 24, 2015
  12. ^ Arezzo Musikverlag , accessed September 24, 2015
  13. ^ Farewell to the founder of the Bergedorfer Kammerchor , accessed April 20, 2020
  14. ↑ He played with James Last: Mourning Hellmut Wormsbächer , accessed on April 22, 2020
  15. ↑ Wormsbächer honored Hamburger Abendblatt September 25, 1990, accessed on September 24, 2015
  16. ↑ Aluan editorial team ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed September 26, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aluan.de
  17. ↑ VDKC, Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Ring , accessed on September 27, 2015
  18. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt, archive , accessed on September 24, 2015
  19. ^ VDKC articles , accessed on June 27, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Wormsbächer, Hellmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choir director, composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Garstedt , Pinneberg district
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2020
Place of death Hamburg