Jens-Andrees Bose

Jens-Andrees Bose after a concert by the Spandau Vocal Ensemble Berlin (2011)

Jens-Andrees Christian Bose (born April 12, 1944 in Stettin , artist name  Jens-A. Bose ) is a German music teacher , songwriter and choir conductor . He lives and works in Berlin .

Life and education

Jens-Andrees Bose was born as the son of the musicologist and music anthropologist Fritz Bose and Lisbeth Bose, b. Witzthum, born in Stettin . After the end of the war he spent most of his childhood in Berlin, where he attended the Waldgrundschule in Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1950 . At the age of 9, Bose began to learn to play the violin, three years later he also learned to play the guitar and, from 1959, the trombone.

After his family moved to Berlin-Spandau , Bose attended the Hans Carossa High School from 1956 , which he graduated from high school in 1963 .

He then studied school music and philosophy at the University of Education in Berlin-Lankwitz with a focus on comparative religious studies. In 1966, Bose passed the 1st state examination. He wrote his state examination thesis on minstrels in the Middle Ages with Gotthold Frotscher .

From 1988 to 1992, Bose completed postgraduate studies in musicology and educational science at the Technical University of Berlin , with Carl Dahlhaus among others .

Awards

In 2012 he was awarded the Badge of Honor of the Berlin-Spandau district for his services to culture and the promotion of young talent.

Private

Bose has been with Cäcilia, b. Zukier, married. The couple have two sons.

Music pedagogical work 

After taking the 1st state examination, Bose took up a position as a primary school teacher at the primary school in Beerwinkel in Berlin-Spandau on October 1, 1966. From 1968 Bose became a lecturer in teacher training, where he trained teachers of all grades in music didactics and methodology as well as in guitar playing at school.

From 1976 Bose switched to the Martin Buber Oberschule as a music teacher , one of the first comprehensive schools in Germany with an upper level. In addition, at his own request, he continued to work at the neighboring elementary school in Beerwinkel and thus regularly taught music to students of all grades from 1–13.

In 1978 Bose was appointed rector of the comprehensive school , with which he took over the management of the music department and the coordination of the arts subjects at the Martin-Buber-Oberschule.

In the following year, as a member of the master plan commission, he co-designed the master plan for music for secondary level I, which was largely valid until 2004.

From 1983 to 2002 Bose was a permanent member of the examination committee for the 1st state examination in school music and music didactics at the Berlin University of the Arts (now the University of the Arts ).

In 1990 Bose also began his work as chairman of the jury at the Jugend Musiziert competition .

Swinging Circle

From the mid-1960s, Bose was active as a trombonist in the Berlin jazz scene . In 1970 he founded the jazz band Swinging Circle with other musicians, in which he first played the trombone and later also the electric bass and violin . Until the band split up in 1980, Bose and Swinging Circle performed regularly in the Berlin jazz clubs that were popular at the time, such as B. the eggshell , the organ organ or the Viktoriaeck. 

Choir work

In 1980, Bose founded the Spandau Youth Choir, which was initially recruited from students from the Martin Buber High School and other Spandau high schools. Intensive voice training work and a wide-ranging repertoire quickly helped the choir to gain some local reputation. In the summer of 1983, Bose recorded a long-playing record with the Spandau Youth Choir entitled Contrasts, which was produced and distributed by Are Musikverlag.

Bose worked continuously on sound quality and repertoire, and the choir soon gained a reputation as a demanding amateur choir. At the Berlin Choir Competition of the State Music Council in 1984, the Spandau Youth Choir won first prize in the youth choir category, representing the State of Berlin in the 1985 German Choir Competition.

At the Berlin Choir Competition in 1989, the choir again won first prize, this time in the adult category, and took part in the German Choir Competition as a representative of Berlin the following year, where Bose was again awarded the German Music Council's sponsorship prize as choir director. Due to the changed age structure of the choir members, the choir was renamed the Spandauer Vokalensemble Berlin in 1990.

In 1998 Bose took part in the international choir competition in Prague with the Spandauer Vokalensemble Berlin , where he won the 1st prize and the Golden Ribbon of the City of Prague with the ensemble, as well as the special prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary work.

Bose regularly performs with the choir in concert halls and churches in Berlin and Brandenburg. Since the 1990s, the Spandau vocal ensemble has been regularly invited to the Sunday concert series of the Berliner Sängerbund in the Berlin Philharmonic .

As a scholarship holder of the German Music Council, Bose received further training from numerous prominent choir conductors, including a. with Eric Ericson , Robert Sund (Stockholm), Kurt Suttner (Regensburg), Lazlo Heltay (London), and Helmut Rilling (Stuttgart).

One focus of Bose's musical work has been the discovery or rediscovery of musical rarities in a cappella literature, such as B. Antonio Salieri's Missa Stylo A Cappella, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger's Missa in D, Franz Xaver Gruber's Missa in Contrapuncto, as well as A Cappella works by Fanny Hensel , Clara Schumann and Friedrich Kiel . Some of these works were first published on sound carriers by the Spandauer Vokalensemble Berlin. B. the fairs of Salieri and Gruber. 

Songwriting activity

From 1976 Bose devoted himself increasingly to the composition of songs and chansons . He set poems by the Germanist and author Bernd Granzin, who taught German at the Martin Buber High School, to music.

Publications

In 1978, Bose and Granzin published the first songbook by Bose and Granzin, published by Voggenreiter & Strube . The songs covered a wide range of content and style, from love ballads to children's songs, many of which were shaped by humanistic and pacifistic ideas. The first edition was sold out within a few months. Despite sustained high demand, the publisher refused a new edition, which led to fans in Germany making various pirated copies of the book.

At the same time, a music cassette with songs from the book, on which Bose sings and plays the guitar, was produced in the Voggenreiter Studio in Bonn.

Also in 1978 Bose published "Make Music", a creative sheet music course for elementary school with a booklet for teachers. The book was published by Strube Verlag Munich.

Meanwhile, Bose is working on the setting of further poems by Bernd Granzin, with a focus on children's songs. Plans-Verlag published the collection in 1983 with the title Der Jodelfrosch. Shortly afterwards, a long-playing record and a music cassette with 10 children's songs from the book, which were published on the Funkuchen label, were produced. The recordings took place in Harris Johns ' Music Lab Studios with the participation of musicians such as Hans Hartmann , Lydie Auvray and Andy Brauer. The cassette was reissued several times, even after plans were taken over by Bertelsmann . Numerous radio stations in Germany and Austria included songs from the record in their programs. The German railway had the theme song The Jodel frog in the 1990s in their ICE to run -Bordmusikprogramm.

Bose also performed the songs many times in live performances in Germany, with a focus on the Berlin area. At some of the performances he was accompanied by Bernd Granzin, who then supplemented the song program with readings of his poems.

From the mid-1990s onwards, Granzin only wrote new poems sporadically, so that the collaboration came to a virtual standstill, and with it Bose's songwriting activity.

Music funding

Since 2000, Bose has been a member of the artistic advisory board of Klassik in Spandau , a small concert agency that, as a non-profit association, takes care of the organization of high-level and professional concerts of classical music in Spandau without public funding. In 2012 he took over the chairmanship of the artistic advisory board, succeeding the co-founder and long-time director, Marek Bobéth , and has since been responsible for the program, the selection of artists and ensembles and the venues. In Spandau, Bose has organized concerts with artists such as Ragna Schirmer , Wolfram Huschke , the Calmus Ensemble Leipzig , the King's Singers , the Berliner Cellharmoniker and the Potsdam Chamber Academy . 

Discography

• I'll take the guitar, 17 new songs for vocals and guitar, Voggenreiter and Strube, 1978
• Contrasts, choral music with the Spandauer Jugendchor, Are-Musik, 1983
• The yodel frog, songs by Jens-A. Bose and Bernd Granzin for all chickpeas, dancing mice and brooding species from 4 to 40, Funkuchen, 1984
• Spandauer Jugendchor live in St. Nikolai, self-published, 1989
• German folk songs live, benefit concert by the Spandau vocal ensemble for Amnesty International, self-published, 2002
• Brahms and Clara Schumann, German folk songs and secular a cappella chants, self-published, 2002
• Warning To the Rich, New Sacred Choral Music by Living European Composers, HOFA Media, 2004
• Missa stylo a cappella: A-cappella rarities from the time around Mozart, HOFA Media, 2005
• Klassik in Spandau - festive Christmas concert / Potsdamer Turmbläser, Spandauer Vokalensemble Berlin, Christian Feldgen Music, 2006
• Franz Xaver Gruber: Missa in contrapuncto and other romantic Christmas rarities, HOFA Media, 2014
• German folk songs in arrangements by Johannes Brahms, Max Reger, Jens-A. Bose, Friedrich Silcher, Werner Jung-Faber, and others. a. HOFA Media, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Award of the Spandau Badge of Honor 2012. February 10, 2015, accessed on May 6, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jens-A. Bose: Missa stylo a cappella: A cappella rarities from the time around Mozart. January 1, 2005, accessed May 6, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Gerhard Oppelt, Jens-A. Bose: Missa in contrapuncto and other romantic Christmas rarities. January 1, 2014, accessed May 6, 2017 . 
4. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved May 6, 2017 . 
5. ^ Strube Verlag: Strube Verlag: Sonstige. Retrieved October 12, 2018 . 
6. ↑ make music: e. Course for creative work with grades in d. Elementary school . Voggenreiter and Strube, Munich 1978 ( dnb.de [accessed on October 12, 2018]).
7. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved May 6, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Jens-A. Bose, Jutta Kausch, Jens-A. Bose, Simone Bocian, Hannes Thiem: The yodel frog: Elephantastic for children; [Songs by Jens A. Bose and Bernd Granzin]. January 1, 1994, accessed May 6, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Team - Classic in Spandau. Retrieved May 6, 2017 . 
10. ↑ ... I'll take the guitar: 17 new songs for singing a. Guitar. 1982, accessed October 12, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Contrasts. 1983, Retrieved October 12, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Jens-A. Bose, Jutta Kausch, Simone Bocian, Hannes Thiem: The yodel frog: songs by J.-A. Bose - B. Granzin [text] for all chickpeas, dancing mice, etc. Brood species from 4 to 40. 1984, accessed October 12, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Warning to the rich: new sacred choral music. Retrieved October 12, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Classic in Spandau - festive Christmas concert. 2006, accessed October 12, 2018 .