Hubert master

Hubert Meister (born September 25, 1938 in Miesbach ; † November 15, 2010 in Munich ) was a German classical organist , musicologist and university professor .

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Meister studied music, philosophy , theology and musicology in Munich , Innsbruck , Rome and Cologne , among others with Günter Bialas . He was a professor of musicology and music theory at the Munich University of Music . At the same time, from 1975 to 1992 he held a teaching position for organ at the former church music school in Regensburg .

Many concerts with Meister were broadcast on the radio. He also recorded all of Johann Sebastian Bach's trio sonatas on the Silbermann organs in the churches of Großhartmannsdorf and Forchheim .

The work of Johann Sebastian Bach was at the center of his musicological publications.

Publications (selection)

• Investigations into the relationship between text and setting in Carlo Gesualdo's madrigals . At the same time dissertation, Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1973, ISBN 978-3-7649-2098-2
• Musical rhetoric and its importance for understanding baroque music, especially the music of JS Bach . Feuchtinger & Gleichauf, Regensburg 1995

Discography

• Sacred organ music from the Romantic period . Chrisophorus SCGLX 73 957
• JS Bach. All trio sonatas . Hubert Meister on the Silbermann organs in Großhartmannsdorf and Forchheim. 1993, Motet Ursina CD 11941
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Organ Works , Hubert Meister on the Mathis organs in Eichstätt, Näfels (Switzerland) and Ried iI (Austria), 2 CDs. MDG (Dabringhaus & Grimm) 2011 (= new edition by Johann Sebastian Bach, Organ Works I-III , 3 LPs. MDG 1982–1986): BWV 541, 543, 544, 546, 547, 548, 552, 582, 542, 564, 622, 668.
• A life with Bach . Hubert Meister plays organ works by JS Bach 1685–1750. IFO classics, Saarbrücken 2013, ORG 7246.2 (CD for "organ" journal for the organ 1/2013): Contains previously unpublished recordings from the archives of the ORF ( BWV 529 , BWV 533, BWV 536, BWV 539, BWV 551, BWV 562, BWV 645 , BWV 662 , BWV 663 ).

Web links

• Hubert Meister in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Literature by and about Hubert Meister in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Hubert Meister in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Hubert Meister at Discogs (English)
• Hubert Meister at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice from Merkur TZ
2. ↑ CD reviews. Retrieved July 11, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Meister, Hubert (1938-2010), organist - BMLO. Retrieved July 11, 2020 . 
4. ↑ H. Meister, Musikalische Rhetorik u. its importance for understanding baroque music, especially the music of JS Bach (special print from "Musica Sacra") (Regensburg 1995)