Horst Karl Hessel

Horst Karl Hessel 1942

Horst Karl Hessel (born March 23, 1916 in Schrebitz as Karl Horst Hessel ; † September 18, 2006 in Leipzig ) was a Saxon composer , organist and choir director .

Life

Childhood and youth

Horst Karl Hessel was born on March 23, 1916 as the son of the church school teacher Karl Hermann Hessel and his wife Erna Louise Hessel, born. Sieberns, born in Schrebitz. From 1922 to 1926 he attended elementary school in Nerchau . From Easter 1926 to 1933 he studied at the Thomas School in Leipzig and was a Thomaner under Karl Straube . The subsequent study of church music at the University of Music in Leipzig under Kurt Thomas and Johann Nepomuk David was interrupted in 1937 by the labor service in Belgern . Karl Straube recognized his pupil's talents at an early stage and, through Hermann Keller, provided him with an exam at the Württemberg University of Music in Stuttgart in 1941, which he successfully completed in 1941 by taking the exam as an A-Cantor and academically qualified musician. During this time in Stuttgart he lived in Ebingen from 1939 to 1941 , where he was employed as cantor at St. Martin's Church as the successor to Hermann Stern . On September 25, 1943, he married Margarete Marianne Kube (* July 19, 1919, † June 7, 2001 in Leipzig), a partial designer from Leipzig. From the beginning of 1941 to 1945, Hessel did military service in Romania with a news unit. In June 1945 he returned from American captivity to his wife, who lived with her parents in Leipzig. As a return to Ebingen was difficult due to the developing occupation zones, Hessel stayed in Leipzig and became assistant cantor in the Leipzig Phillipus Church in Lindenau.

post war period

Horst Karl Hessel's apartment from 1946 to 2006 in Leipzig, Brockhausstraße 40, 3rd floor on the left

From November 1, 1946 to 1985, he worked as a répétiteur at the Leipzig station . From this time on he called himself Horst Karl Hessel, because when the radio announcement was mentioned he was confused acoustically with the "non-person" Horst Wessel . In addition to the survival work of clearing up rubble from war damage, from autumn 1946 to 1948 he headed the soloists' association of the Leipzig station , which later became the Leipzig Radio Choir (from 1947). His music handwriting was so precise that it could be printed directly as a manuscript in terms of content and form. His daughter Sabine was born on November 25, 1948 and his son Wolfgang on May 12, 1952. His children remember him as a composer who always sat at the piano and worked. He was considered a night owl and was very religious. Organ music was his love. At Sunday services he had the open Bible with the current Sunday texts lying next to him at the organ. From 1948 to 1950 Horst Karl Hessel worked as cantor and organist at the Lukaskirche Leipzig . In 1949 he handed over the choral direction of the Soloists' Association to his successor Herbert Kegel . In the successor of Cantor Hanns-Ander Donath, he worked at the Michaeliskirche in Leipzig from 1953 to 1992 and as cantor at the Erlöserkirche Leipzig-Thonberg from January 1, 1993 to 2001 .

Life's work

Horst Karl Hessel on March 23, 2006

Signature of Horst Karl Hessel

Gravestone of Horst Karl Hessel in Leipzig-Lindenau on January 17, 2010

As a result of the early elaboration of a pre-lecture since 2001 by Wolfhard Röhlig from Leipzig, Hessel's entire musical life's work, consisting of over 800 compositions and arrangements, is cataloged and stored in the Leipzig City Library. During his work at Sender Leipzig he created piano reductions as a basis for radio recordings, including operas by contemporary composers. His church music work is primarily characterized by compositions for trombone choirs, family services and sacred concerts. Many wind parts and compositions bear his signature "HKH" . He belonged to the Gnadauer Posaunenbund through the regional church community in Johanngeorgenstadt . In 1953 he introduced the Saxon appendix to the trombone chorale book. Hessel composed well into old age. It became more and more important to him that his wind pieces were text-bound.

"The wind players must know what a wonderful message they are blowing into the world!"

From 2006 he was in need of care, so that he moved from his Leipzig apartment at Brockhausstrasse 40, where he had lived for 60 years, to a senior citizens' home in Leipzig on Erich-Zeigner-Allee. Horst Karl Hessel died at the age of 91 on September 18, 2006 in the Robert Koch Clinic in Leipzig. On September 25, 2006, he was carried to the last rest to the sound of trombones in Leipzig-Lindenau . The tombstone bears the beginning of his favorite motet from Psalm 98 :

"Sing a new song to the Lord, for he works miracles!"

Awards

• 2006: Golden badge of honor of the Gnadauer Trumpet Association
• 2006: Brass sign of the Saxon Trumpet Mission
• 1961 and 1967: Medal for Excellent Achievements by the GDR

Publications

• Horst Karl Hessel: Jubilate Deodorant. Music for brass. Published by the Gnadauer Posaunenbund , Bokholt-Hanredder 2000.
• Jesus our joy. Community Songbook Trumpet Edition. Brunnen-Verlag Giessen, September 1996, ISBN 3-7655-6093-6 .
• Horst Karl Hessel: Wind music at Christmas time. VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik Leipzig, DVFM 8912, 1988, license 418-515 / C31 / 88.

literature

• Erika Krause: Cantor Hessel. In: Under the shadow of your wings. Experienced and experienced from 100 years of Michaeliskirche. Ev.-Luth. Church council of the Michaelis-Friedens-Kirchgemeinde zu Leipzig-Gohlis, 2004, p. 112.
• Aribert Rothe Our cantor. ibid, p. 114.
• Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth 75 years of the MDR Symphony Orchestra. Kamprad, Altenburg 1999.
• Matthias Hermann Church music in Dresden in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume 3 of Music in Dresden. Laaber Verlag, Laaber 1998, ISBN 3-89007-331-X , ISBN 978-3-89007-331-6 .
• Ev.-Luth. Landeskirchenamt Sachsen (Ed.) Everything that breathes, praise the Lord !: Church music in Saxony in the past and present. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 978-3-374-02126-0 .

Web links

Commons : Horst Karl Hessel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Collection of works at Carus-Verlag
• Historical photographs with Horst Karl Hessel
• Biography with photographs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Werner Wiesenthal: "HKH" is 90! Wind devotion for the birthday of Horst Karl Hessel in Leipzig. In: bläserruf. Volume 43, July – September 2006, Gnadauer Posaunenbund, Mannheim 2006, p. 10 ( PDF, 1.1 MB ).
2. ^ Wilhelm Maute: Sing to whom singing has been given ... 150 years of the Martinskirchenchor. In: Community letter of the Evangelical General Church Community Ebingen. Issue 05/06, May / June 2009, p. 10 ( PDF, 1.25 MB ).
3. ^ Machine-written curriculum vitae signed by Horst Karl Hessel, from the estate of Horst Karl Hessel, Sabine Röhlig, Leipzig, o.A.
4. ↑ The way of love and death of the cornet Christoph Rilke. German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1986.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Werner Wiesenthal: His music continues to ring in our hearts. On the death of Horst Karl Hessel. In: bläserruf. Volume 44, January – March 2007, Gnadauer Posaunenbund, Mannheim 2007, p. 16 ( PDF, 1.14 MB ).
6. ^ Wilhelm Schlemmer: In memory of host Karl Hessel (1916-2006). Community gazette of the Ev.-Luth. Michaelis-Friedens-Kirchgemeinde, Leipzig 2007.
7. ↑ ^{a b} k. A .: About us. In: Circular letter of the Saxon Trumpet Mission e. V. No. 1, Saxon Trumpet Mission e. V., Radebeul, S. 14 PDF, 744 kB ( Memento from June 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Leipzig City Library / Music Library, call number 2: 5661, media number 000701061.
9. ↑ Wolfgang Schnabel: The evangelical trombone choir work. Origin and mission. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen, ISBN 3-525-57188-7 , p. 58.
10. ↑ k. A .: We remember deceased church workers. In: Official Journal A123 / Year 2007. No. 11, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony, Dresden, June 15, 2007, p. 1 ( PDF, 60 kB ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ). 
11. ^ Leipzig City Library - Directory Röhlig MS Hessel 90.