Helmuth Rilling

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Helmuth Rilling (born May 29, 1933 in Stuttgart ) is a German church musician , conductor and music teacher .

life and work

Helmuth Rilling first studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart with Karl Ludwig Gerok , Hermann Keller and Hans Grischkat , and then from 1955 organ with Fernando Germani in Rome . On December 1, 1957, he became cantor at the rebuilt Memorial Church in Stuttgart-Nord and shortly thereafter also took on a teaching position at the Berlin church music school . Since 1963 church music director in Stuttgart, in 1969 he became professor for choral conducting at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts . He held this professorship until 1985.

Originally an interpreter of Vorbach music and romantic and contemporary choral music, the sacred and secular work of Johann Sebastian Bach Rilling has been the focus of work since the 1970s . Between 1970 and 1985 he was the first conductor to record all of the sacred Bach cantatas on record. Since then he has been known in Stuttgart as "Mister Bach". Friedrich Hänssler , who had the courage to publish this production in his publishing house, received the Grand Prix du Disque for it in 1985 .

Rilling founded the Gächinger Kantorei in January 1954 and the Bach Collegium Stuttgart in 1965 , as well as the Oregon Bach Festival in 1970 and the International Bach Academy Stuttgart in 1981 , of which he was artistic director until his resignation in February 2012. From 1985 to 1996 he was artistic director of the State Youth Choir Baden-Württemberg. From 1969 to 1982 he also headed the Frankfurt Kantorei .

One of his specialties are the conversation concerts, in which he combines music analysis and concert. With thoughts on Bach in the early 1980s, a similarly stored sound carrier has also been released. He has been running the so-called Bach academies since the 1970s, which are concert festivals with lectures and master classes for singing and conducting. Such Bach academies take place regularly in Stuttgart and Oregon (USA), and since the 1980s also in Japan. Between 1986 and 2000 countless Bach academies took place in Eastern European countries, which helped him to receive an honorary doctorate from the Krakow Music Academy in 2003 and also made a contribution to international understanding.

In 1996 Helmuth Rilling recorded a completion of Franz Schubert's Oratorio Lazarus by the Russian composer Edison Denissow on CD. In 1985 he was able to complete the first complete recording of all Bach cantatas, followed in 2000 by the first complete recording of all works by Johann Sebastian Bach under Rilling's overall artistic direction on 172 CDs in the internationally awarded Edition Bachakademie .

In 1988 the Messa per Rossini was premiered under Helmuth Rilling and in 1995, under the patronage of the then Federal President Roman Herzog , the Requiem of the Reconciliation of 14 contemporary composers, as a gesture of reconciliation 50 years after the end of the war. Other premieres under Rilling line 1998 were the credo of Krzysztof Penderecki and 2004. The uncle of Boston or the two nephews , a youth opera by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy .

He has a special friendship with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , which he conducted in 1986 as the first German to conduct after the Holocaust and which played musicians who had survived Nazi persecution. From 1990 to 1996 he was the successor to Hans Pischner President of the New Bach Society .

Rilling is married to his wife Martina and has two daughters. He lives in Warmbronn , a district of Leonberg , where he was made an honorary citizen in 2019.

honors and awards

Helmuth Rilling has received many awards, including

Student (selection)

Helmuth Rilling's students include:

literature

  • Helmuth Rilling: A life with Bach. Conversations with Hanspeter Krellmann. Bärenreiter / Henschel Verlag, Kassel / Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-89487-926-6 .
  • Sara Maria Rilling: My father Helmuth Rilling . Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7751-4923-5 .

Web links

Commons : Helmuth Rilling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ Kai Luehrs-Kaiser: A Bach Pope with the virtues of the house builder. 80th birthday celebration, welt.de, May 29, 2013, accessed on May 29, 2013.
  2. ↑ Gerhard R. Koch: Bach for at home and for the world. FAZ.net, May 29, 2013, accessed on May 29, 2013.
  3. ↑ Helmut Matthies: Great successes - deep suffering. ideaSpektrum, February 28, 2007.
  4. ^ Announcement nmz / kiz February 10, 2012
  5. ↑ Merian, Stuttgart, p. 40 (C 4701 E).
  6. ↑ The Bach Edition - Complete CD edition at Hänssler Classic ( Memento from September 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Helmuth Rilling: Founder of the International Bach Academy , bachakademie.de, accessed on June 11, 2016.
  8. ^ The governing bodies of the New Bach Society. In: Rudolf Eller (Ed.): 100 Years of the New Bach Society. Pp. 139-146.
  9. ↑ Bach's music is always present. In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de , May 29, 2018.
  10. ^ Johannes Brenz Medal ( memento from March 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg.
  11. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 194, October 13, 1978.
  12. ↑ Detailed biography in: Forum Bachakademie No. 80, 2013, p. 19.
  13. ^ Foundation Bible and Culture - Awards. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .
  14. ^ Prize laureates 1975–2005 , 1994: Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart.
  15. ↑ echoklassik.de - Prize Winner 2013 ( Memento from June 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 28, 2018.
  16. ↑ hopefuls Prize for Helmuth Rilling ( Memento of 9 June 2016 Internet Archive ), epd.de, report of 27 May 2016th
  17. ↑ http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/43620004/Dr__Helmut_Bartel (last accessed on August 6, 2017).
  18. ↑ Emmer on the website of the University of Kiel (last accessed on August 3, 2019).
  19. ↑ https://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/freizeit/kunst-und-kultur/kulturnachrichten/linda-horowitz-gibt-lösungenskonzert-in-darmstadt_20044523# (last accessed on August 6, 2019).
  20. ↑ Vita Jaskulsky on hans-jaskulsky.de (last accessed on August 3, 2019).
  21. ↑ Vita Pardall on der-chor-pardall.de (last accessed on August 3, 2019).
  22. ^ Vita Kathy Saltzmann Romey on the website of the University of Minnesota (last accessed on August 4, 2019).
predecessor Office successor
Hans Pischner President of the New Bach Society
1990–1996 		Martin Petzoldt
personal data
SURNAME Rilling, Helmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart