Jürgen Blume

Jürgen Blume at a Hessischer Rundfunk event, 2019

Jürgen Blume (* 1946 in Jena ) is a German cantor , choir director , composer and university lecturer .

biography

Blume was born in Jena in 1946, but has lived in Offenbach am Main since early childhood . Up until his Abitur he received lessons in piano , organ and harmony at the Offenbach Music School. Since 1962 he has been active as a church musician at various Offenbach churches. While still at school, he attended courses in choral conducting with Kurt Thomas and Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden .

Blume studied musicology , school music , choral conducting , Latin and philosophy in Frankfurt am Main . His teachers included Branka Musulin (piano), Kurt Hessenberg (composition and composition), Richard Rudolf Klein (theory of forms), Hans Ulrich Engelmann (new music) and Helmuth Rilling (choir director).

After graduating, he first several years teacher of music and Latin at the Offenbacher Albert Schweitzer School before 1976 lecturer and 1979 professor of music theory at the Frankfurt Music Academy was. In 1993 he moved to the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , where he holds a professorship for music theory. In 2001 he became dean of what was then the music department, and from 2005 to 2011 he was rector of the Mainz University of Music .

From 1976 to 1999, Blume conducted the Hessischer Rundfunk youth choir . In 2000 he founded the Rhein Main Vocalists with former members of the youth choir . Since 1972 he has been harpsichordist with the Frankfurt Chamber Orchestra for several years . From 1974 to 1980 he was a member of the Hessian curriculum commission for music in the upper secondary level .

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In addition to his dissertation on “The history of the polyphonic Stabat mater settings”, he published school books (including “Music in Life”) and contributions to musicology and music theory - mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. For him, one of the focal points of research within the compositional techniques of the 20th century is Hindemith's instruction in composition. In addition, he wrote numerous school radio programs .

As a composer, he focuses on choral music. His larger works include “Media in vita” for soprano, choir, organ and percussion as well as the oratorio “Job” for solos, choir and orchestra, and the “Tonbridge Te Deum”. The wind quintet “… out of the joint…”, the 1981 string quartet, songs based on texts by Ulla Hahn and Heinz Erhardt as well as choral satires based on texts by Hanns Dieter Hüsch performed in several university concerts . In addition, several CD recordings provide insights into the artistic activities of the conductor and organist Jürgen Blume.

Honors

In 2001 Jürgen Blume was awarded the Offenbach Citizen Medal in silver in recognition of his artistic and cultural work .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Blume in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jürgen Blume's website