International Organ Week Nuremberg
The International Organ Week Nuremberg - Musica Sacra (abk .: ION ) is a festival of sacred music that takes place annually in Nuremberg .
history
Since 1951, the festival, also known as Europe's Festival of Sacred Music , has been held annually on ten days in May or June in Nuremberg.
It is one of the largest and oldest music festivals of its kind in Europe and is still a cultural highlight of the Nuremberg metropolitan region . In the first few years organ music on the organs of the two large Protestant old town churches St. Lorenz and St. Sebald was the focus of the program. In the meantime, the Catholic Frauenkirche and churches outside the city walls are also included across denominations . Churches in the Franconian region, such as the town church of St. Gumbertus in Ansbach with its large baroque Wiegleb organ or the Heilsbronn Minster, were often part of the event venues. Since 2013 the cultural manager, producer and “concert designer ” Folkert Uhde, co-founder of the Berlin RADIALSYSTEM V , has been the artistic director of the ION.
music
The epithet Musica Sacra expresses that in addition to organ music, all types of sacred music are equally included in the program. Great vocal and instrumental works, such as B. symphonic works and oratorios , are mainly performed in the opening and closing concerts. There is a lunchtime concert every weekday with organ music only. In addition to concerts by international artists, church services and devotions take place. In addition, master classes organized by renowned organist and scientific symposia.
Works from all musical eras will be performed. The ION has always seen itself as a forum for contemporary music, with commissioned compositions especially for the organ week, most recently by Peter Maxwell Davies , Werner Heider or Rodion Schtschedrin . Around 200 works were premiered at the festival in Nuremberg.
In order to win new audiences for sacred music, a wide variety of projects will be integrated into the festival. There has been a three-part school project for young listeners since 2005 . Schoolchildren of all grades can, accompanied by organ professionals, experience the organ from the inside and try it out for themselves. This is intended to reduce the “reverent distance” to the instrument and present it as a fascinatingly modern “sound machine”. For the past ten years, the Mobile Cinema Nuremberg has shown silent films on the large screen on the square in front of the Sebalduskirche, accompanied by improvised organ music being broadcast live from the Sebalduskirche. The program includes classic silent films such as B. The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Nosferatu (2005) or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2011).
Since 2013, the artistic director Folkert Uhde has been making the ION a new experience by reloading the established brand “Orgelwoche” - in an expansion of the understanding and interpretation of what “sacred music” can be, through interlocking space-sound concepts, Targeted lighting design, unconventional concert formats, event locations and media. He made his debut at ION in 2013 under the motto “Grace” with around 30 events that offered a musical range from the Middle Ages to the world premiere of a composition for electronics. The largest event was an "IONacht" held for the first time in this form. Uhde had an even stronger impact on ION 2014 with performance forms specially designed and produced for the festival: “Rausch” was the unifying theme from 23 May to 1 June. The highlights included the opening concert with the rediscovery of the Nuremberg master Johann Staden , a series of concerts that explored the facets of intoxication (with the Bavarian Radio Chorus , Midori Seiler , Martin Helmchen , The Tallis Scholars under Peter Phillips), a four-part cycle with organ transcriptions of Gustav Mahler's symphonies and the final concert with a world premiere for percussion ensemble. The IONacht, the “Sound samples - 20 minutes of ION for free”, the ION party and classics such as the midday concerts will experience a new edition.
In addition to the Nuremberg ensembles, including the Nuremberg State Philharmonic since the 1960s , and church musicians, outstanding organists and internationally renowned soloists, choirs and orchestras are invited every year. B. the RIAS Chamber Choir , the Windsbacher Knabenchor , the Thomanerchor Leipzig , the Rundfunkchor Berlin and the Dresdner Kammerchor , Midori Seiler, Hille Perl , Hans-Ola Ericsson , Roger Norrington , Peter Planyavsky , Ben van Oosten , Olivier Latry , Daniel Roth .
Organ competition
In addition to the concert program, an international organ competition has been held since 1968 to promote young organists. In 2005/2006 it was subjected to a critical review and realigned. Since 2007 it has been advertised as an interpretation competition every two years. Some of the previous winners are Michael Radulescu , Peter Planyavsky, Jon Laukvik , Ludger Lohmann , Christoph Bossert , Naji Hakim and Martin Schmeding .
Venues
The venues vary from year to year. The regular venues of the ION include:
- Aufseßsaal in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg
- Frauenkirche Nuremberg
- Kartäuserkirche in the Germanic National Museum Nuremberg
- St. Egidien Nuremberg
- St. Klara Nuremberg
- St. Lorenz Nuremberg
- St. Martha Nuremberg
- St. Martin Nuremberg
- St. Sebald Nuremberg
- St. Nicholas and St. Ulrich Nürnberg-Mögeldorf
Other previous venues:
- N-ERGIE Nuremberg clock house
- Minster Heilsbronn
- St. Gumbertus Ansbach
- Ebrach monastery church
- Bamberg Cathedral
organization
The ION is a public foundation under civil law, established by the city of Nuremberg, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bavaria and the “Freundeskreis der ION e. V. “In addition to public support ( Free State of Bavaria , Middle Franconia District , City of Nuremberg) and church grants, the ION is primarily financed by sponsors from the local economy ( Sparkasse Nürnberg ) and patrons. Werner Jacob was the long-time director of ION . He was followed from 2004 to 2007 by the British conductor Robert King and from 2009 to 2012 by the composer Wilfried Hiller . Since 2013, Folkert Uhde has been the ION's Artistic Director for four years. For a long time, the managing director of ION was Hanns Helmut Mähner, who, together with Werner Jacob, was awarded the Wolfram von Eschenbach Prize for his services to the support of the Musica Sacra . Gabriele Lösch and Cornelia Schiffel have been running the business since March 2015.
Web links
- Official homepage of the International Organ Week - Musica Sacra Nürnberg
- ION's Facebook presence
- Article in the new music newspaper for ION 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ Culture and School Service Nuremberg
- ↑ http://www.mobileskino.de/index.php?id=873
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2016 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.
- ↑ List of current venues ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
