International Hugo Wolf Academy

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The International Hugo Wolf Academy for Singing · Poetry · Liedkunst eV (IHWA) is a non-profit association based in Stuttgart , which regularly organizes concerts and master classes in the greater Stuttgart area and every two years the International Competition for Lied Art.

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Hugo Wolf and his extensive songwriting are at the center of the work of the International Hugo Wolf Academy. In addition, song art, song and poetry are illuminated in numerous facets and through all epochs.

The International Hugo Wolf Academy for Singing · Poetry · Liedkunst eV offers regular concerts in the greater Stuttgart area. It organizes both large concerts and a. in the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart with internationally sought-after performers such as Waltraud Meier , Michael Volle , Bernarda Fink or Robert Holl as well as smaller concerts with young up-and-coming artists. The International Hugo Wolf Academy is building on the tradition established by Hermann Reutter of promoting young performers.

Furthermore, dedicated to the Ihwa of music education . Children's concerts, workshops at schools and concert introductions should make it easier for listeners of all ages to access the art song. In the “Stuttgart master class for song”, various lecturers pass on their knowledge to aspiring song singers and give the audience an insight into the art of song singing. So far, lecturers have been a. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Hans Hotter , Peter Schreier and Birgid Steinberger.

A third focus of work is the International Competition for the Art of Song .

Hugo Wolf Medal

Since 2008, the International Hugo Wolf Academy has awarded the Hugo Wolf Medal to artists who have rendered outstanding services to the song in general and to the work of Hugo Wolf. The medal was awarded to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for the first time in 2008 . Christa Ludwig was awarded the medal in 2010, Peter Schreier in 2011 , Brigitte Fassbaender in 2013 , Graham Johnson in 2014 , Elly Ameling in 2015 .

In 2017 the Hugo Wolf Medal was awarded to the Lied duo Thomas Hampson and Wolfram Rieger . In 2019 the medal was awarded to Gundula Janowitz .

history

The International Hugo Wolf Academy for Singing · Poetry · Liedkunst eV goes back to a circle of lovers of song and the art of singing, which Hugo Faisst , a Stuttgart lawyer and close friend of Wolf, gathered around himself in 1894. In 1898 Hugo Faißt founded a Hugo Wolf Association in Stuttgart, which held recitals, orchestra and church concerts and supported Wolf's opera Der Corregidor until the composer's death on February 22, 1903 .

On November 7, 1967, Hermann Reutter, composer and former director of the State University for Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart , launched a call for the establishment of an international Hugo Wolf Society. The Stuttgart association should be the German branch of a 1931 in New York a. a. International Hugo Wolf Society founded by Thomas Mann , Thornton Wilder and Darius Milhaud . The most important founding goal of the Stuttgart Association was the performance of seldom heard works not only by Hugo Wolf, but also by other song composers. The founding committee included a. the conductor Ferdinand Leitner , the then director of the Stuttgart Opera Walter Erich Schäfer and the composer Carl Orff .

After Hermann Reutter's death, Hartmut Höll took over the artistic direction of the association in 1985. He expanded the profile of the association by including the spoken word and poetry, by organizing master classes and the International Competition for the Art of Song, and by issuing numerous publications on the International Hugo Wolf Academy.

In 2007 Hartmut Höll gave up the leadership and was followed by Francisco Araiza , professor of voice at the State University for Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, together with Ingo Dannhorn and Mathias Spohr . Since the summer of 2009, the IHWA's artistic direction has been in the hands of the Artistic Advisory Board, which is made up of outstanding representatives of the art song as well as representatives of international concert life and science. The Artistic Advisory Board, together with the management and the board of directors, are responsible for maintaining the goals and values ​​set and shaping the IHWA program. The city of Stuttgart supported the IHWA's work in 2004 and 2005 with a grant of 134,500 euros each.

Recordings

  • Hugo Wolf: Italian songbook. (Version for chamber orchestra, 2006). With JaeEun Lee, Colin Balzer, Hartmut Höll u. a.
  • Eduard Mörike in settings of our time. (2005). With Christoph Prégardien , Markus Schäfer, Antoine Tamestit , Markus Hadulla, Hartmut Höll, Dieter Kurz (management) and a.
  • “Nightingale song” · Eduard Mörike in settings of his time. (2004). Mechthild Bach (soprano), Württemberg Chamber Choir , Dieter Kurz (conductor).
  • Peter Härtling . A portrait in poems and songs. (2003). With Peter Härtling, Auryn Quartett , Risako Kurosawa, Markus Schäfer, Markus Hadulla, Hartmut Höll, Dieter Kurz (lead).
  • Hugo Wolf: Selected songs. (2003). Bernhard Berchtold (tenor), Anne Le Bozec (piano).
  • Hugo Wolf: The choirs with orchestra. (1996). With the Württemberg Chamber Choir, Ensemble Stuttgart, Alison Browner, Kathrin Koch, Christian Beller, Dieter Kurz (conductors).
  • Hugo Wolf: Selected Goethe songs. (1995). With Locky Chung, Markus Hadulla, Stephan Genz, Claarter Horst.
  • Hugo Wolf and Manuel Venegas: Songs from the “Spanish songbook”. (1999). With Mitsuko Shirai , Cornelius Hauptmann , Oliver Widmer, Württemberg Chamber Choir, Dieter Kurz (conductor) a. a.

Publications (selection)

  • Hugo Wolf's letters to Hugo Faisst. Complete and critically revised new edition
  • Hugo Wolf in Germany - Stuttgart.Mannheim.Tübingen.Berlin. Book accompanying the exhibition on the Hugo Wolf Year 2003
  • 100 years of Mörike – Wolf - A reader. Programs, poems, interpretations, essays
  • 150 years of Hugo Wolf. Exhibition catalog for the anniversary exhibition in the Landesmuseum Württemberg 2010

Media coverage

  • Contribution “Hugo Wolf Academy” for SWR2 Musik aktuell on March 12, 2010, 3–4 pm, author: Antonia Bruns.
  • Contribution to the birthday program of the International Hugo Wolf Academy for DLF Studiozeit on March 15, 2010, 8:10 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., author: Ines Stricker.
  • Reviews of IHWA events can be found on the homepage of the International Hugo Wolf Academy under Gallery / Reviews

literature

  • Echo. 1898-1998. 100 years of Hugo Wolf. Association, society, academy . Edited by of the International Hugo Wolf Academy, 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homage to Thomas Hampson and Wolfram Rieger . Archived from the original on October 5, 2017.
  2. ^ Hugo Wolf Medal for Austrian soprano Janowitz. July 22, 2019, accessed July 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Grants to musical institutions in 2004 and 2005 (PDF, 70 kB), City of Stuttgart, accessed February 2, 2011