Kate van Tricht

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Käte van Tricht (born October 22, 1909 in Berlin ; † July 13, 1996 in Bremen ) was a German organist , pianist , harpsichordist , singer and music teacher .

biography

Käte van Tricht was the daughter of a Dutch musician. She spent her childhood in Bremen, where her mother Meta encouraged her to play the piano and, when she was eight, brought her to the Bremen Cathedral Choir under Eduard Nößler . From 1916 to 1927 she attended the Lyceum of Ida Janson and received at the age of 19 years, their first organist at the Old Waller Church in Bremen. She financed her training from 1927 at the music seminar in Bremen (where she took the subjects organ, piano and harpsichord) by providing musical accompaniment to films and ballet performances. In 1930 she passed the state private music teacher examination at the Bremen Conservatory .

On the initiative of Richard Liesche , director of the Bremen Cathedral Choir, van Tricht became the second organist at Bremen Cathedral in 1933 . In 1934 she took up further studies in church music , piano (Carl Adolph Martienssen), organ ( Karl Straube ) at the Leipzig Conservatory , supplemented by private counterpoint studies with Johann Nepomuk David . She received singing lessons from Fritz Polster . During this time she appeared repeatedly as a vocal soloist under the direction of Straube in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. In 1937 she finished her studies in Leipzig . Due to a possible Jewish descent (her biological father was not purely “Aryan”) she had difficulties to overcome during the National Socialist era , with which Wolf Siegert helped her. During the Second World War she played and sang as part of the Wehrmacht support in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Russia. In 1943 she also took on répétiteur for Fritz Rieger at the Bremen Theater .

In 1948 van Tricht married the natural scientist Wolf Siegert. From this marriage two sons were born. In addition to her work as a cathedral organist in Bremen, van Tricht began a successful career as an international concert organist in the 1950s and recorded numerous recordings in the Bremen cathedral and other organs in Germany. Her extensive repertoire included works by Kerll , Pachelbel , Bach , Rinck , Lefébure-Wély , Ives , Reger , Malengreau , Guilmant , Liszt and Vierne , among others . Käte van Tricht was also active as a song and chanson singer. In 1974, after her retirement, she received a teaching position at Bremen University . In addition, she took on tasks as organist and concert organizer (including a mobile Hammond organ) at the St. Jürgen hospital in Bremen .

The German organist Martin Welzel is one of her students .

Her grave is in the Riensberger Friedhof in Bremen.

Honors

Discography

  • The organ portrait: The Silbermann positive in the crypt of Bremen Cathedral . Works by Johann Pachelbel and Franz Xaver Murschhauser. 1 single. OO: Psallite, undated
  • The organ portrait: The Konrad Euler organ of the Benedictine abbey Heilig Kreuz, manufactured on the Weser . Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Vincent Lübeck and Georg Böhm. 1 LP. OO: Psallite, 1967.
  • The organ portrait: The Sauer organ of St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen . Works by Alexandre Guilmant and Louis Vierne. 1 LP. OO: Psallite, 1968.
  • The organ portrait. The Breil organ in the St. Urbanus Church in Gelsenkirchen-Buer . Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Ludwig Krebs, Jenö Kapi-Kralik, Ludwig Lenel, Walter Piston and Leo Sowerby. 1 LP. OO: Psallite, undated
  • Evening music in St. Severin zu Keitum / Sylt . Organ works by Jean Baptiste Loeillet, Henry Purcell and Ernst Pepping. 1 LP. Buchholz: Musica Viva, 1979.
  • Music for harpsichord and organ . Works by Georg Friedrich Handel, Nicholas Carleton, Thomas Tomkins, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, François Couperin and Bernardo Pasquini. Executed by: Käte van Tricht and Wolfgang Baumgratz . 1 LP. OO: EMI-Electrola, 1980.
  • Käte van Tricht plays on four organs in Bremen Cathedral. Works by Johann Kaspar Kerll, Johann Pachelbel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Max Reger, Paul de Maleingreau, Louis JA Lefébure-Wély, Johann CH Rinck and Charles Ives. 2 LPs. Detmold: Music production Dabringhaus & Grimm, 1983.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ works, played after the edition by Karl Straube (Sauer organ, St. Petri Cathedral, Bremen). 1 CD. Music production Dabringhaus & Grimm, 1987.
  • Works by Franz Liszt and Max Reger (Sauer organ, St. Petri Cathedral, Bremen). 1 CD. Music production Dabringhaus & Grimm, 1989.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (Van Vulpen organ, St. Petri Cathedral, Bremen). 1 CD. Music production Dabringhaus & Grimm, 1992.
  • Homage to Käte van Tricht (organs of St. Petri Cathedral, Bremen). Works by Johann Pachelbel, Johann Kaspar Kerll, Johann Sebastian Bach, Max Reger, Paul de Maleingreau, Léon Boëllmann, Louis JA Lefébure-Wély, Johann CH Rinck, Charles Ives and Franz Liszt. 2 CDs. Music production Dabringhaus & Grimm, 1999.

Works

  • Ischa Freimaak. Bremen Foxtrot for the coming winter . Bremen: Aschoff, 1928.
  • A life on the roller. Life memories . Unpublished manuscript. Bremen, undated

literature

  • Hans-Adolf Allers: Kate van Tricht . In: Life stories: Fates of Bremen Christians of Jewish descent after 1933 , published by the Association for Bremen Church History. Hospitum Ecclesiae (Research on the History of the Church in Bremen), Volume 23, 2006. Second expanded edition, Hauschild, Bremen 2009.
  • Friedemann Winklhofer: Only be really happy once. Käte van Tricht (1909–1996): First German concert organist and cathedral organist in Bremen for 40 years . In: Organ - journal for the organ . 2 (1999), pp. 22-28.
  • Edith Laudowicz : Tricht, Käte van . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .

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predecessor Office successor
- Organist at St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen
1933–1974 		Zsigmond Szathmáry
personal data
SURNAME Tricht, Kate van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1996
Place of death Bremen