Jürgen Völckers

Jürgen Wolfgang Völckers (born January 25, 1913 in Frankfurt a. M .; † March 22, 1990 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German conductor , pianist , musicologist and music editor.

Life

Jürgen Völckers was the first child of the architect, specialist and novelist Otto Völckers and his wife (married March 9, 1912) Maria Theresia Völckers, b. Kayser (born July 4, 1883 in Berlin). She was the daughter of the geologist Emanuel Kayser and niece of the physicist Heinrich Kayser . His sister was the doctor Renate Cäcilie Völckers (born October 5, 1915 in Munich).

From 1932 he studied at the political science faculty of the Philipps University of Marburg . But from 1933 he began studying musicology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Also from 1933 to 1936, he completed a three-year course in conducting at the State Academy of Music in Munich with Heinrich Knappe , Carl Ehrenberg and Richard Trunk ( conducting ) and Joseph Haas ( composition ), where he passed the Kapellmeister exam.

In 1939 he received his doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, specializing in opera composer Johann Rudolph Zumsteeg .

Jürgen Völckers was chief conductor of the State Theater Schneidemühl from 1939 to 1941 and assistant to the opera director of the Cracow State Theater from 1941 to 1944 . In 1944 he married the mezzo-soprano and concert singer Sigrid Völckers, b. Kranzbühler (born May 17, 1911 in Wiesbaden), with whom he went on concert tours from 1944. From 1944 Völckers lived in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

Völckers worked as a musicologist and music and culture editor. So he was an employee of the magazine "Musica" and the "Garmisch-Partenkirchener Tagblatt". In the 1960s and 1970s, he held a teaching position for music theory and chamber music at the Mittenwald violin making school for eleven years .

Awards

History of music

Silver badge of honor Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1988)

Works

Johann Rudolph Zumsteeg as an opera composer: A contribution to the history of the German Singspiel and music at the Württemberg court at the turn of the 18th century. Dissertation, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, 1944
History of music. Founded by Ernst Bücken . Revised by Dr. Jürgen Völckers. 2nd Edition. Alfred Kröner Publishing House. Stuttgart. 1951.
Lively object lesson in the Mittenwald violin making museum in: 300 years market town of Mittenwald, Mittenwald violin making, 1983, pp. 52–57.

Web links

Völckers, Jürgen in the German biography

Individual evidence

↑ Hedwig Mueller von Asow, Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow, eds .: Kürschners Deutscher Musiker Kalender 1954 . 2nd Edition. 1954.
↑ Jürgen Wolfgang Völckers: Johann Rudolph Zumsteeg as an opera composer: A contribution to the history of the German Singspiel and music at the Württemberg court at the turn of the 18th century, dissertation. Ed .: Ludwig Maximilians University. Munich 1944.

personal data
SURNAME	Völckers, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Völckers, Jürgen Wolfgang (full name); Voelckers, Jürgen Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German conductor, pianist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 25, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	March 22, 1990
Place of death	Garmisch-Partenkirchen

[1] Hedwig Mueller von Asow, Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow, eds .: Kürschners Deutscher Musiker Kalender 1954 . 2nd Edition. 1954.

[2] Jürgen Wolfgang Völckers: Johann Rudolph Zumsteeg as an opera composer: A contribution to the history of the German Singspiel and music at the Württemberg court at the turn of the 18th century, dissertation. Ed .: Ludwig Maximilians University. Munich 1944.