Johann Trummer

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Johann Trummer (born February 18, 1940 in Bruck an der Mur ; † July 18, 2019 in Graz ) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest , organist, musicologist and media manager .

Life

Johann Trummer, one of five children, studied philosophy and Catholic theology as well as musicology and history at the University of Graz as well as the organ and harpsichord at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz . In 1964 he was ordained a priest and was awarded a doctorate in theology. Trummer was secretary of the Graz bishops Josef Schoiswohl and Johann Weber . He was in the leadership of the seminary diocese Graz-Seckau and was responsible for public relations in the ordinariate and diocesan economic council.

In 1966 Trummer was a lecturer for organ, liturgy and German church singing at the church music department of the Graz University of Music and from 1979 full professor for liturgy, liturgical practice and hymnology. From 1973 to 1991 he was director of the church music department and from 1981 to 2000 he was director of the Institute for Performance Practice. He was a long-time visiting professor of church music in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Minsk, among others. Since 2000 he has been director of the Institute for Church Music and Organ at the University of Art in Graz. Trummer was a board member of the Leipziger Neue Bachgesellschaft and was committed to a collaboration between Graz and Gotha. He was chairman of the church music section of the Graz-Seckau diocese, vice-president of the Austrian church music commission, member of the Austrian liturgical commission and others.

For many years Trummer was involved in top positions in the Catholic media world in Austria. In 1983 he became chairman of the Catholic Press Association , which was founded in 1869 and is the sponsoring association of today's Styria Media Group . With the change of name to a stock corporation, he became the first chairman of the supervisory board in 1997; from 2011 Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board. In addition, for three decades he was chairman of the board of directors of the Katholischer Medien Verein Privatstiftung , also newly established in 1997 , which, as the main owner, led the Styria group of companies from a regional newspaper publisher to an international media group in Austria, Croatia and Slovenia.

honors and awards

Fonts

  • Kirchenchoere Austria: History of choral music in church services and documentation of church choirs in Austria and South Tyrol.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach and Johann Joseph Fux: Report on the symposium on the occasion of the 58th Bach Festival of the New Bach Society, 24. – 29. May 1983 in Graz. 1983, ISBN 978-3-7618-0756-9 .
  • Early Music - Teaching, Researching, Listening: Perspectives on Performance Practice; Symposium 1992. 1994, ISBN 978-3-930079-60-5 .
  • Church space - concert - performance practice, symposium 1994. 1996, ISBN 978-3-930079-61-2 .
  • Organ music, church interior and performance practice: Perspektiven der Auf Performpraxis, Symposium 1996. 1997, ISBN 978-3-932581-12-0 .
  • Focus on Bach: Messages to Performance Practice, Symposium 1999. 2001, ISBN 978-3-932581-33-5 .
  • Lively music: lectures and reports from the 1st German-Russian Summer Festival, Halle. 2006, ISBN 978-3-86634-178-4 .
  • Church music in socialist countries before and after the fall of 1989. 2006, ISBN 978-3-939041-09-2 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c "Former Styria supervisory board chairman Johann Trummer died" , Der Standard , July 19, 2019
  2. ^ A b * Christian Fastl: Johann Trummer. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 . accessed on July 12, 2019
  3. ↑ a b "Mourning in Graz and Gotha" , City of Gotha , July 19, 2019
  4. ↑ "The Styria Group on the passing of Johann Trummer" , Kleine Zeitung , July 19, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Trummer, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Roman Catholic priest, organist, musicologist and media manager
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruck an der Mur
DATE OF DEATH 18th July 2019
Place of death Graz