Hermann Voss (musician)

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Self-portrait by Hermann Voss, created in 1989 at Schloss Elmau

Hermann Voss (born July 9, 1934 in Brünen ) is a German violist , painter and puppet player . From 1975 to 2005 he taught viola and chamber music at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart . Voss played the viola in the Melos Quartet for 40 years .

Life

Education and orchestral work

Hermann Voss was born in Brünen on the Lower Rhine in 1934 . He received his musical training at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Düsseldorf and at the Freiburg University of Music with Sándor Végh and Ulrich Koch . After studying the violin with Sándor Végh, he switched to the viola under his new teacher Ulrich Koch. Shortly afterwards, in 1959 in Stuttgart, he was awarded first prize on the viola at the German University Competition. In 1959 and 1960 Hermann Voss attended the summer courses of cellist Pablo Casals in Zermatt . In 1962 he again won the ARD International Music Competition in Munich on the viola . From 1960 to 1967 Voss was principal violist of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra .

Melos Quartet

In 1965 he was a founding member and until its dissolution in 2005 the only violist of the Melos Quartet.

Teaching

From 1975 Hermann Voss worked as a lecturer for string quartet playing and from 1980 to 2005 as professor for viola and chamber music at the Stuttgart University of Music. In addition, he regularly took on lectureship at music festivals with master classes in Ratzeburg , Oberstdorf and at international master classes in London , Sydney and Tokyo as well as at the Academy for String Quartet Interpretation of the Hindemith Foundation in Blonay .

Painting and puppet theater

In addition to his tasks as a musician, Voss also devotes himself to a creative activity by making drawings, etchings, watercolor and acrylic paintings. After his retirement in 2005, Voss turned primarily to painting with acrylic paints . Among other things, he created picture cycles on Schubert's winter journey , on marionette theater , on favorite pieces of chamber music and on the situation of women with the title Women's Love and Women's Suffering .

With puppet figures, masks and instruments he created himself , Voss has been regularly giving private and public appearances in his own musical miniatures and pantomimes since he was a student in Freiburg . In addition, Hermann Voss runs the so-called bedroom theater in Waldenbuch under the roof structure of his private house , which, equipped with a small stage and around 20 seats, serves as a permanent performance location. Stage pieces worked out and performed by Hermann Voss are festivals of small performers and images of a performance .

The longtime solo violist of the SWR Symphony Orchestra and author Gunter Teuffel describes Hermann Voss as a universal artist :

“Musician, draftsman, painter, sculptor, marionette maker and marionette player, makeup artist, pantomime, theater man, director and musical writer. When I ask myself who in my environment unites the most varied artistic talents, I don't know anyone to whom the term universal artist would apply better than Hermann Voss. "

Waldenbuch concerts in Sankt Veit

Hermann Voss is co-founder of the series of chamber music events, the Waldenbuch Concerts in Sankt Veit , which he supervises and provides artistic advice. In autumn 1998 Voss was a founding member of the association responsible for organizing the concerts. A year later, the Melos Quartet opened the series of events with a first concert. As a result, many renowned artists were won over to the Waldenbuch concert series under Voss's aegis. For example, Waldenbuch has become a permanent contact point for concerts organized by the Federal Selection of Concerts of Young Artists of the German Music Council . On the 80th birthday of Hermann Voss, a special concert by the DAFO Quartet was performed in Sankt Veit. On September 22nd, 2018, the 20th anniversary of the association's foundation was celebrated with a hundredth concert in the Waldenbuch Veitskirche.

Factory gallery

Acrylic painting of a cycle of pictures for Franz Schubert's winter journey (selection)

  • Three suns acrylic painting, 2008, 80x60 cm

  • ... that I am one and two acrylic painting, 2008, 60x60 cm

  • Are we gods ourselves? Acrylic painting, 2010, 70x90 cm

All kinds of pencil drawings

  • Thème russe - Beethoven as Boris Godunow pencil drawing, 1986

  • Cavatine pencil drawing, 1985

  • The two brothers as a Harlequin pencil drawing, 1984

  • Quartettschicksal pencil drawing, 1985

honors and awards

Publications

  • Hermann Voss: Pecking orders in a square - pencil drawings by Hermann Voss. Res Novae Verlag, Aulendorf 2017
  • Gunter Teuffel (Ed.), Hermann Voss: EINE VERNISSAGE with Bach, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Festschrift 2019

Web links

Commons : Hermann Voss  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International Who's Who in Classical Music 2006 ISBN 9781857433685 , p. 835
  2. ^ Joseph Stevenson: Hermann Voss Biography . allmusic.com, 2017
  3. ^ Hermann Voss: Pecking orders in a square - pencil drawings by Hermann Voss. Res Novae Verlag, Aulendorf 2017, ISBN 978-3981825510
  4. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung: Why crocodiles have to cry like that. ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2018 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. November 26, 2001 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schwaebische.de
  5. ↑ Julia Eiden: Where the donkey Duke Ellington sings - Little interpreters: The audience laughs, the crocodile cries. In: Westfälische Rundschau, February 26, 2009
  6. ^ Thomas Krämer: Marionettes, masks and music. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , January 31, 2012
  7. ↑ Robert Krülle: Even painting is all about music. In: District newspaper Böblinger Bote, 2014
  8. ↑ Gunter Teuffel (ed.), Hermann Voss: A vernissage with Bach, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Res Novae Verlag, Aulendorf 2019, p. 9, ISBN 978-3981825527
  9. ↑ Evangelical parish Waldenbuch: Waldenbuch concerts in St. Veit - from the beginning until today.
  10. ↑ Wolfgang Teubner: Birthday serenade for a spark of the gods - DAFO quartet gave a concert in St.Veit in Waldenbuch on the 80th birthday of Hermann Voss. In: District newspaper Böblinger Bote, 2014
  11. ↑ Hans-Jörg Lund: An oasis of chamber music - Festive occasion: 100th concert in the 20th year of the series "Waldenbuch Concerts in St. Veit" In: Kreiszeitung Böblinger Bote, September 24, 2018
  12. ^ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Viola Prize Winner of the ARD International Music Competition. br.de, accessed December 3, 2018
  13. ↑ Kreiszeitung Böblinger Bote: Acknowledgment of a gifted person: Festschrift for the 85th birthday of Hermann Voss published. In: krzbb.de, September 22, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violist
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Brünen