Herbert Collum

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Tomb of Prof. Herbert Collum, cross organist in Dresden. Reinhardtsgrimma cemetery.

Herbert Collum (born July 18, 1914 in Leipzig , † April 29, 1982 in Dresden ) was a German organist , harpsichordist , composer and conductor .

Life

Collum attended a primary school in Leipzig between 1921 and 1929. He then studied from 1930 to 1934 with Karl Straube and Günther Ramin in organ, Carl Adolf Martienssen in piano, Kurt Thomas in choral conducting and Johann Nepomuk David in composition at the Church Music Institute in Leipzig. Even Fritz Reuter belonged there among his teachers. From 1927 he was deputy organist at St. Matthäikirche Leipzig . From 1932 to 1935 he worked as an assistant to Professor Günther Ramin at the Thomaskirche Leipzig . His main creative phase was the time as Dresden organist at the Dresden Kreuzkirche , which began with his appointment in 1935 and ended with his death in April 1982. Michael-Christfried Winkler was elected as his successor .

In 1946 he founded the Collum Choir and the Collum Concerts. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach , a total of 24 collum concerts took place from September 1949 to August 1950. Soloists, the Collum choir and members of the Saxon State Orchestra performed under Collum's direction. The venues were the Dresden Martin Luther Church in Neustadt and the Reformed Church, because the Kreuzkirche , which burned out in 1945 , could not be used again.

During his time as Kreuz organist, Herbert Collum also took on various teaching assignments. From 1942 to 1945 and again between 1954 and 1956 he was a teacher at the State Conservatory for Music in Dresden and then until 1958 a lecturer for organ at the Dresden Music Academy . In addition, Collum worked between 1949 and 1961 as a lecturer for organ at the church music school in Berlin-Spandau . In 1960 he was appointed professor. From 1964 he was a lecturer for harpsichord at the Dresden Music Academy. In the same year he was appointed to the jury of the International Bach Competition Leipzig .

In 1942 he married the singer and teacher Herta Maria Böhme-Collum . Just one year later, the church musicians Christian Collum emerged from the union .

Herbert Collum was buried in Reinhardtsgrimma according to his last wish . He has often given concerts on the Silbermann organ in the church there and also made a record in the series “Bach's Organ Works on Silbermann Organs”. The concert tradition established by him is successfully continued under the direction of today's Kreuz organist Holger Gehring. That is why this organ is one of the most famous in Saxony.

Honors

In 1973 Collum received the GDR Art Prize . Herbert-Collum-Strasse was later named after him in Dresden .

estate

Herbert Collum's estate is kept in the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library.

Compositions (selection)

Orchestral music

  • Symphony No. 1 (c), 1939
  • Symphony No. 2 (a), 1940
  • Concerto for flute and chamber orchestra, 1944
  • Concerto in C major for orchestra - premiered on July 1, 1953 by the Dresden Philharmonic, conductor: Franz Jung
  • Concert in E for string orchestra - premiered on May 28, 1955 by the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, conductor: Franz Konwitschny
  • Concert music No. 1, 1961
  • Concertante Music No. 2, 1964
  • Moritzburg Concert No. 1, 1965
  • Moritzburg Concerto No. 2, 1968
  • 5 concerts for harpsichord and chamber orchestra
  • Arrival Symphonietta for chamber orchestra, 1974

Organ works

  • Dance of Death - Variations on an old folk song: "It's a reaper, it's called death", 1944
  • Organ book of the Dresden Kreuzkirche, 1950
  • Suite, 1952
  • Organ suite, 1962
  • Toccata, 1964
  • Leksand Suite, 1966
  • Fantasia, 1969
  • Siljan Suite, 1970
  • Metamorphosis, 1970
  • Fantasy about bells of the Kreuzkirche (EGAHD), 1973
  • Concert for organ and orchestra, 1975 - premier 10-12. April 1975 by the Dresden Philharmonic, conductor: Hartmut Haenchen
  • Fantasy Triptych, 1975
  • 2 concertos for organ and vibraphone, 1978
  • "Media in vita" for vibraphone and organ - premier on June 11, 1979 in the Kreuzkirche Dresden

Chamber music

  • Suite for piano, 1945
  • Sonata for flute and piano, 1954
  • New piano pieces (223 movements), 1960–1962

Vocal music

  • 3 Christmas carols, 1943
  • St. John Passion, 1953
  • How is the city so desolate, 1956
  • Because we have no permanent city here, 1959
  • Te Deum, 1959
  • Great Psalter, 1961
  • German Magnificat, 1962
  • Fantasy about Bach, 1964
  • Spiritual motets and chants

Theater music

Audio documents

  • Bach: French Suites (1–6)
  • Bach: The organ work on Silbermann organs

literature

  • Detlef Gojowy: "Search for Identity" - Kreuzorganist Herbert Collum , in: The Dresden Church Music in the 19th and 20th Centuries , ed. by Matthias Herrmann, Laaber 1998, pp. 353-367 ( Musik in Dresden 3), ISBN 3-89007-331-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Clemens, Werner Busch: In memory of Fritz Reuter . In: Heinz Wegener (Red. Ed.): Gedenkschrift Fritz Reuter (= scientific journal of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Society and linguistic series 15 (1966) 3). S. I-VI, here: SV
  2. ↑ dresdner-stadtteile.de
  3. ↑ Barbara Wiermann: 50 years of Dresden music history and more . In: BIS - the magazine of the libraries in Saxony, vol. 10 (2017), no . 1 . S. 55-57 ( nbn-resolving.org [accessed May 4, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Collum, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist and professor for harpsichord
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1982
Place of death Dresden