Helmut Bornefeld

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Helmut Bornefeld (born December 14, 1906 in Untertürkheim ; † February 11, 1990 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) was a German Protestant church musician , composer , organ expert , graphic artist and author .

Life

Helmut Bornefeld began his professional training in 1922 with an apprenticeship as a gardener , which he completed with the journeyman's examination. From 1924 to 1928 he studied music at the Adler Conservatory in Stuttgart. In 1928 he switched to the Musikhochschule (today: State University for Music and Performing Arts ) in Stuttgart , where he studied composition with Ewald Sträßer , piano and organ with Hermann Keller . From 1935 to 1937 he completed his training by studying church music, which he completed with the A-exam. From 1937 to 1971, with the exception of a six-year war interruption from 1939 to 1945, he worked as a cantor and organist at the Evangelical Paulus Church in Heidenheim an der Brenz. In 1951 he was appointed church music director there. From 1950 to 1958 he taught as a lecturer for composition and choir practice at the church music school in Esslingen (now in Tübingen).

Together with Siegfried Reda, Helmut Bornefeld organized the Heidenheim Working Days for New Church Music from 1946 to 1960 . From 1937 to 1977 he was also the organ keeper with over a hundred new buildings and conversions, many with his own brochure designs . Under his influence, numerous organs worthy of protection were changed in character, in accordance with his ideas, some irrevocably. I.a. By sawing off pipes, he endeavored to lighten the sound of primarily romantic or late romantic organs and to redesign the dispositions according to his aesthetic ideals.

Helmut Bornefeld wrote numerous papers and essays on questions of church music and organ building.

Honors

In 1972, Helmut Bornefeld was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for his achievements . On June 5, 1976, Prime Minister Hans Filbinger awarded him the honorary professorship of the state of Baden-Württemberg and thus the title of professor. On December 4, 1981 he received the citizen medal of the city of Heidenheim . In 1993 the name of the local Kirchenstrasse was changed to Helmut-Bornefeld-Strasse .

Organ brochures and organ dispositions (selection)

former organ of the Murrhardt town church (until 2017)

As an organ caretaker, Helmut Bornefeld designed numerous instruments with a view to the prospectus , disposition and scaling . Some instruments still bear witness to his musical aesthetic concerns, of which a selection of thirty have been placed under monument protection in the Evangelical Church in Württemberg:

International organ competition

International organ competition Helmut Bornefeld

  • 2nd to 5th November 2006: on the three-manual Bornefeld organ of the Michaelskirche Heidenheim an der Brenz

Works (selection)

Organ, choir and chamber music

  • 1930–1960: the chorale work with numerous choir and accompanying movements, organ choir movements, chorale preludes, motets, cantatas, partitas and sonatas
  • Arrangements of secular folk songs
  • spiritual and secular canons
  • Music for solo singing and / or solo instruments with organ
  • To sing songs on the piano based on poems by Ottilie Häußermann . Bärenreiter-Verlag 1949, BA 2147
  • Works for organ solo
  • Chamber music
  • numerous institutions of the works of other composers from different epochs for different instrumentations

Hymn book songs

The Protestant hymn book contains canons by Helmut Bornefeld:

  • EG 173 The Lord protect your exit and entrance from 1947 (main part)
  • EG 633 Trachten what is above from the year 1947 (regional part Bavaria)
  • EG 683 Jesus Christ yesterday and today from 1947 (regional part Württemberg).

literature

  • Wolfgang Dallmann: Helmut Bornefeld - A German composer between tradition and avant-garde . In: International Journal of Musicology . tape 5 , 1996, ISSN  0941-9535 , pp. 207-238 .
  • Martin Jörg: The composer Helmut Bornefeld (1906–1990) - directory of his estate in the Württemberg State Library. Part 1: The musical work, correspondence I, literature, catalogs of works, Wißner-Verlag, Augsburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-89639-523-8 .
  • Martin Jörg: The composer Helmut Bornefeld (1906–1990) - directory of his estate in the Württemberg State Library. Part 2: Remaining correspondence, organ files, artistic legacy, sound recordings and other things, Wißner-Verlag, Augsburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89639-751-5 .
  • Klaus Kirchberg:  Bornefeld, Helmut. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  • Klaus Kirchberg, Richard Baum:  Bornefeld, Helmut. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 3 (Bjelinski - Calzabigi). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1113-6  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Ulrich Prinz: Helmut Bornefeld (1906–1990) . In: Rainer Bayreuther / Nikolai Ott (eds.): Choir composers in Württemberg , Esslingen a. a .: Helbling 2019, ISBN 9783862274185 , pp. 78-93.
  • Thomas Daniel Schlee: On the free organ music by Helmut Bornefeld . In: Württemberg sheets for church music . No. 6 , 1986, ISSN  0177-6487 , pp. 218-223 .
  • Jürgen Schwab: Bornefeld organs. Stroll through a unique organ landscape . In: Württemberg sheets for church music . No. 6 , 1986, ISSN  0177-6487 , pp. 231-251 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Merit Cross for Helmut Bornefeld. In: Württemberg sheets for church music. 39, 1972, p. 115.
  2. ^ Gerhard Schweier: Heidenheimer Chronik. Archived from the original on April 20, 2015 ; Retrieved April 18, 2015 (appointment June 5, 1976).
  3. ↑ Joachim Widmann: Helmut Bornefeld 75th laudation on the occasion of the awarding of the citizen medal of the city of Heidenheim to Professor Helmut Bornefeld on December 4, 1981. In: Der Kirchenmusiker. 33, 1982, pp. 26-29; also as private print.
  4. ↑ Biographical information by biography in key words. Retrieved September 13, 2012 .
  5. ^ Orgeldatabase: Heidenheim ad Brenz, Protestant Michaelskirche. Retrieved September 13, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Description of the new organ on the website of the organ building workshop, accessed on August 29, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Bornefeld, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Untertürkheim
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1990
Place of death Heidenheim an der Brenz