Herbert Gadsch

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Edmund Herbert Gadsch (born April 7, 1913 in Mittweida ; † February 3, 2011 in Großenhain ) was a German church musician and composer .

Life

Herbert Gadsch was born on April 7, 1913 in Mittweida. His father sang in the choir and played various instruments. Growing up in a musical family, it was always clear to Gadsch that he wanted to become a musician. He studied organ , piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1930 to 1935 . In 1937 he was a church musician at St. Marien in Großenhain . In the same year he married Ilse Wussmann, whom he met in Mittweida. The marriage has three daughters. In 1939 he took over the direction of the trombone choir. After Gadsch had to go into World War II as a soldier in 1942 , he did not return from Soviet captivity until 1950. In the same year, under difficult conditions, he again took over the office of cantor and organist in Großenhain. From 1952 to 1981 he also worked as church music director for the church district in Großenhain and from 1973 to 1993 as director of the Catholic choir in Großenhain.

From 1952 to 1986 he taught composition, liturgical organ and the history of church music at what was then the regional church music school in Dresden . His musical competence and care left a deep impression on the students and staff. In the last two decades of his life, the focus was on composing.

In 2007 Herbert Gadsch celebrated the wedding of grace, the 70th anniversary of their marriage, with his wife Ilse. In 2011 he died very old at the age of 97 in Großenhain, the city that was the center of his life for more than seven decades and which honored him with the Preus Medal in 2000.

Musical creation

Gadsch deliberately did not limit his work to sacred compositions . A broad spectrum was important to him, so secular works always belonged to him. He was particularly fond of composing for children, including setting the children's mass by Dietrich Mendt to music and writing the musical Das musical rhinoceros based on a text by Peter Hacks .

Herbert Gadsch's estate is kept in the music department of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden and comprises 14 capsules with composition autographs, copies of autograph templates, Herbert Gadsch's publications, records and lesson records from his teaching activities in the subjects of music theory and composition.

Works (selection)

  • Keep us, Lord, by your word. Rondo about Luther songs. For organ (Sonat-Verlag, Kleinmachnow, 1998/2017)
  • Missa sine Credo for a cappella choir (Berlin 2005)
  • Partita for organ about Great God, we praise you (Berlin 2006)
  • Heaven, Earth, Air and Sea - Variations for the recorder
  • Small festival music
  • Daughter Zion - festive Christmas music for alto solo, 3-part choir SAB and organ Berliner Chormusik-Verlag / Edition Musica Rinata
  • 11 easy preludes for organ manualiter
  • Praise the lord
  • Psalm concert
  • Mark's Passion , Berliner Chormusik-Verlag / Edition Musica Rinata
  • Chromatic chaconne
  • We all want to be happy - up, up, my heart, with joy - double-choir Easter motets
  • Christmas music about a Russian folk song - for organ (Berlin 2012)

Fonts

  • Herbert Gadsch: Dealing with the hymn - old practices and new possibilities . Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1978.
  • Herbert Gadsch: Song accompaniment - with a difference .
  • Herbert Gadsch and Joachim Jänke: A short history of the Grossenhainer Kantorei .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Gadsch: Obituary notice. In: Saxon newspaper . February 11, 2011, accessed December 27, 2013 .