Joachim Dorfmüller

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Joachim Dorfmüller (2011)

Joachim Dorfmüller (born December 13, 1938 in Wuppertal ) is a German music teacher , musicologist , pianist and organist .

School and study

Joachim Dorfmüller, the only child of the Wuppertal cantor , organist and music teacher Ewald Dorfmüller (1898–1972) and his wife Meta geb. Kläber (1912–1986) grew up in Werdau, Saxony , after the bombings in the air raids on Wuppertal and the air raids on Munich . At the age of six he received his first piano and later violin and organ lessons from his father . According to his parents' wishes, he was supposed to become a Leipzig Thomaner , but the plan failed when the family returned legally to his home country in 1951 and the father was able to resume his previous activities. Dorfmüller, for example, attended the Carl-Duisberg-Gymnasium in Wuppertal , graduated from high school here in 1959 and has since studied school music at the State University of Music in Cologne with the instrumental main subjects piano and organ as well as the minor subject violin, plus philosophy and education, also at the University of Cologne Musicology, Classical Philology, Geography and Geology. In 1960 he passed the small church music exam at the church music school in Düsseldorf.

He completed his teacher training course in Cologne after Philosophicum (1962) and State Examination in Music (1963) in December 1965 with the First Philological State Examination for the subjects of music and Latin. 1966/67 he studied at the University of Marburg , where he with a dissertation on Heinrich Hüschen 1968 Dr. phil. received his doctorate. The minor subjects were classical philology with Walter Wimmel and pedagogy with Wolfgang Klafki 1961–1963 student in the organ class of Hans Klotz , he continued his organ studies with Wolfgang Stockmeier in 1969 after he had passed the second state examination in philology and passed the organ maturity test with him in 1971 ( Diploma). In 1982 he completed his habilitation at the Gerhart Mercator University in Duisburg with Norbert Linke for musicology.

Educational

Since 1959 he has worked as an organist, occasionally also as a choir director at the Luther Church in Heckinghausen, after traineeships in Neuss and Düsseldorf , Dorfmüller has been teaching music and Latin as a study assessor at the municipal high school in Wuppertal-Barmen as well as mathematics for a few school years. In 1972 he was promoted to a higher education councilor three years later. At the same time he taught organ, piano and music history at the church music seminar in Wuppertal, directed by KMD Winfried Pesch , from 1971 to 1979 . In 1978 he was given leave of absence from the high school service to habilitation (1982) and teaching at the Institute for Music Education at the University of Duisburg .

From here, Dorfmüller changed in 1984 to the Institute for Music Pedagogy at the University of Münster as senior student adviser . Here he has been teaching music theory, analysis and music history, primarily from the 18th to 20th centuries, as an associate professor since 1987 and as director of studies in the university department since 1991.

In 1987 he founded the "Academic Organ Lesson", which, as a university facility, was intended to enable students of the University of Münster to perform. It was played in various instrumental and vocal ensembles with or without the participation of the organ. Over a period of 32 years, the midday concerts took place weekly during the semester in the Dominican Church in Münster. In addition to students and Dorfmüller himself, invited organists and composers such as Thomas Meyer-Fiebig , Aya Yoshida and the Norwegian composer Per Kjetil Farstad played . After the organ was removed in the course of the renovation of the Dominican Church in 2018, the academic organ lessons took place in the Ludgerikirche and other Münster churches. On March 13, 2019, Dorfmüller himself played the last concert in this series in the Überwasserkirche , which comprised a total of 1327 concerts.

In 1991 he founded the composers festival at the Westphalian Wilhelms University ; once a semester it was usually devoted to contemporary composers. He also taught artistic and liturgical organ playing from 1983 to 1996 at the Institute for Protestant Church Music at the Cologne University of Music.

Dorfmüller's penchant for Scandinavian music led him in 1995 with his colleague Ekkehard Kreft to found the Edvard Grieg Research Center of the WWU and together with him, Bodo Müller (Schwelm) and Verena Offermann (Wuppertal) to found the German Edvard Grieg Society based in Wuppertal. Both shared the tasks: Kreft was director of the research center and vice-president of the Edvard Grieg Society, Dorfmüller was president of this society and Kreft's representative at the research center. State theses and dissertations on Dr. phil. and to the Dr. ped. dedicate themselves mainly to music since the baroque age with a focus on the 20th century. Retired in 2004, he teaches at the University of Münster until further notice and is still supervising seven doctoral students in 2014. As a reviewer, he was also involved in doctoral and habilitation procedures at the universities of Bonn, Chemnitz, Duisburg, Flensburg, Hamburg, Hildesheim, Oldenburg and Kristiansand since 1983.

Artistic

As an organist and pianist, Dorfmüller has given over 3700 concerts in almost all European countries as well as in the USA and Japan. In addition to radio and television recordings (as of 2013), he made 62 LPs / CDs at home and abroad (including Abakus, MDG, Lynor and Sonox) with works from the baroque to the present (including Ligeti, Linke and Stockmeier). In 1973 he founded the Wuppertal Organ Days .

He premiered over 150 organ works, mostly dedicated to him, by Laurent Beeckmans, Finn Benestad, Theo Brandmüller, Peter Michael Braun, George Dreyfus, Wilhelm Fehres, Adolf Gebauer , Fritz Christian Gerhard , Alfred Goodman, Harald Heilmann, Lutz-Werner Hesse , Konrad Hupfer, Kjell Mörk Karlsen, Matthias Kern, Gereon Krahforst, Norbert Linke, Tilo Medek, Thomas Meyer-Fiebig, Istvàn Nagy, Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe, Hans Ludwig Schilling, Konrad Seckinger, Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski, Wolfgang Stockmeier and Heinz Ewald Trust . On the piano he played world premieres by Finn Benestad, Charles Kalman, Gereon Krahforst, Norbert Linke and Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe. 1969–1975 he worked in the “Mega Hertz Group” led by the avant-garde composer Günther Becker , later known as the “Live Electronic Folkwang Ensemble”; In this line-up he was involved as an electric player in premieres and premieres, mostly documented in radio and TV productions, by Günther Becker, John Cage, Hans Ulrich Engelmann, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Nikolaus A. Huber, Norbert Linke, Anestis Logothetis, among others , Manfred Niehaus, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Dimitri Terzakis and Michael Vetter. With this group he took part in the International Summer Courses for New Music Darmstadt (1970), the Warsaw Autumn (1970), the Witten Days for New Chamber Music (1971) and the cultural program of the Olympic Games in Munich (1972).

As a pianist, organist and lecturer, he has worked at least once a year on Hapag-Lloyd cruises on board MS Hanseatic, MS Bremen, MS Europa V and MS Europa VI since 1985.

He gave scientific lectures - usually with sound samples on the piano - at domestic and foreign universities, technical colleges and colleges, as well as at congresses at home and abroad; In addition, there are frequent popular science lectures at schools, adult education centers and music schools as well as composers' associations in Germany and, among other things, at the children's university.

Dorfmüller has been married since 1976 and has three children.

Works

Books

  • Studies of Norwegian piano music in the first half of the 20th century. Dissertation (= Marburg Contributions to Musicology 4, edited by Heinrich Hüschen). 239 pages. Marburg 1969 / Kassel 1970.
  • 300 years of organ building in Wuppertal (= contributions to Rhenish music history 127), ed. by H.-J. Irmen, as well as contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal 28, ed. by M. Metschies. 208 pages. Wuppertal / Cologne 1980.
  • Studies on the tradition of baroque forms in organ music after 1960. Habilitation thesis on obtaining the venia legendi in musicology. 395 pages. Updated with a foreword by Wolfgang Stockmeier and expanded to include the chapter “Concerts for Organ and Orchestra” as “Contemporary Organ Music (1960–1983)”. 442 pages. Wolfenbüttel (Möseler) 1983.
  • Wuppertal composers I. On the life and work of Jan Albert van Eyken, Heinrich Friedrich Wink , Wilhelm Fehres, Kurt Lissmann , Gunild Keetman, Fritz Christian Gerhard, Franz Josef Breuer, George Dreyfus, Konrad Hupfer, Ludwig Werner Weiand , Bernd Köppen and Thomas Honickel . (Wuppertal Biographies, 15th episode. Contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal, Volume 33.) 137 S. Wuppertal (Born) 1986.
  • 125 years of the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra (Wuppertal Municipal Orchestra until 1976). A historical overview with special consideration of the last 25 years. 50 pages with 25 illustrations. Wuppertal (Brüne & Effelsberg), 1987.
  • Heinrich Reimann. Life and work of a Silesian music writer, organist and composer. 150 pages. Bonn (Schröder) 1994.
  • Wuppertal music history. From the beginnings in the 8th century to 1995. (= contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal, Volume 38.) 226 pages with 95 illustrations. Wuppertal (Born) 1995.
  • Furthermore, countless reviews for the feature pages of the Westdeutsche Zeitung / General-Anzeiger of the city of Wuppertal and for specialist journals as well as over 600 specialist articles, including 199 lexicon articles for the "Rheinische Musikerbiographien" (Fellerer; Kämper; Bremer), for " The great lexicon of music " ( Massenkeil; Herder; taken over as a limited special edition for the new MGG in “Das neue Lexikon der Musik”; newly edited by Ralf Noltensmeier; Metzler), also for the lexicon “Symphony Orchestras of the World” (Craven; Greenwood New York), for the new edition of the encyclopedia “ Music in Past and Present ” (Finscher; Bärenreiter / Metzler), for the “Lexicon of Church Music” (Massenkeil / Zywietz; Laaber) and for the “Lexicon of Wind Instruments” (ibid; in preparation).

editor

  • New contributions to the music history of the city of Wuppertal (= contributions to the music history of the Rhine 131). 192 p. Kassel (Merseburger) 1981. - Festschrift for Norbert Linke on his 75th birthday. Edited with Eva-Maria Houben . 268 p. Dortmund (NonEM) 2008.
  • Transcriptions (mostly for organ solo) and new editions (piano, organ) from domestic and foreign publishers.

Discography

  • MISSA: Fairs of the 20th Century ; Ingeborg Hischer (mezzo-soprano), Joachim Dorfmüller (organ); CD, SICUS Klassik 2006.
  • Variations, elegies, cantilenas ; Thomas Piel (violoncello), Joachim Dorfmüller (organ); CD, SICUS Klassik 2009.

Memberships and honors

Web links

Commons : Joachim Dorfmüller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Werder-Staude: Not only at home on the organ. Westdeutsche Zeitung from December 13, 2018 . Retrieved April 11, 2019
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Studies on Norwegian piano music in the first half of the 20th century .
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Studies on tradition and avant-garde in organ music 1960–1980 .
  4. ^ New home for organ lessons Westfälische Nachrichten of February 22, 2018. Accessed on April 11, 2019
  5. ^ After 1327 editions: Farewell to the organ lesson Westfälische Nachrichten on March 14, 2019. Retrieved on April 11, 2019
  6. ↑ Joachim Dorfmüller. ( Memento from October 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) “Barmen 2008” project group: Wuppertal-Barmen. Living in Diversity, February 11, 2010
  7. ↑ List of holders of the Federal Order of Merit (Federal President's Office)
personal data
SURNAME Dorfmüller, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal