Klemens Schnorr

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Klemens Schnorr (born May 22, 1949 in Amorbach im Odenwald ) is a German organist and musicologist .

Life

After graduating from the Johannes-Butzbach-Gymnasium Miltenberg, Schnorr studied organ and church music at the University of Music and Theater Munich (organ masterclass with Franz Lehrndorfer ) as well as musicology, Latin philology of the Middle Ages and Italian philology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (MA with Rudolf Bockholdt).

Initially a church musician at St. Karl Borromäus in Munich- Fürstenried , he was subsequently a lecturer at the Hermann Zilcher Conservatory in Würzburg and at the Munich University of Music, lecturer at the University of Munich and organ expert at the church music office of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

In 1991 he was appointed full professor at the Freiburg University of Music . In 1998, as the successor to Ludwig Doerr, he also took over the office of cathedral organist at Freiburg Cathedral , which he held until 2012. In 2002/03 he was the founding rector of the University of Catholic Church Music and Music Education in Regensburg . In 2014 he retired from the Musikhochschule Freiburg, since then Schnorr has been performing various activities as an auxiliary and concert organist, as an honorary organ reviewer for the DFG (German Research Foundation) and as a member of the Passau Cathedral Organ Commission .

Awards

  • International Organ Competition Bologna "Premio Giuseppe Capi" 1st Prize (1975)
  • ARD Competition Munich 2nd Prize (1975)
  • International Organ Competition Rijnstreek Nijmegen 2nd Prize (1976)
  • Paul Hofhaimer Competition Innsbruck 3rd Prize (1979)
  • International Organ Competition Avila 1st Prize (1982)
  • Promotion Prize of the Free State of Bavaria (1986)
  • Leon d'or (French record award) 2014

Publications (selection)

  • Notations of JS Bach's organ music. On the correlation of writing, edition and sounding, in: Congress Report Stuttgart 1985, Kassel BVK 1987, Vol . 2, pp. 427-434 .
  • Gli organi delle chiese della fascia danubiana tedesca, in: DANUBIO, Una Civiltà Musicale, vol. 1, Germania, ed. v. Carlo de Incontrera et al. Birgit Schneider, Monfalcone 1990, pp. 246-262 .
  • Special and effect registers of the Upper Swabian organs and their musical use, in: Acta Organologica . Vol. 24, Kassel 1994, pp. 369-386 .
  • Albert Schweitzer's ideas of Bach play, in: Music - Genius - Ethics / Albert Schweitzer , Charles-Marie Widor, Louis Vierne / Mainzer Perspektiven, Orientierungen 2, ed. v. Peter Reifenberg u. Wolfram Adolph, Mainz 1996, pp. 91-104 .
  • "Tutti Registri" Theodor Grünberger's six organ masses (1756–1820), in: Musicus Doctus, Festschrift for Hans Musch on his 65th birthday, ed. v. Kay Johannsen, Georg Koch and Stephan Rommelspacher, Freiburg 2000, pp. 55–70 .
  • Litany and Ostinato in Bach's Passacaglia BWV 582, in: Anuario Musical, Barcelona 2001, pp. 55–67 .
  • La caja del Órgano Mayor de la Seo de El Salvador de Zaragoza en su contexto histórico, in: El Órgano Mayor de la Seo de El Salvador de Zaragoza, Saragossa 2003, pp. 37-42 .
  • Music as “Preludio alla Cara Pace” - On the 300th anniversary of Georg Muffat's death (1653–1704), in: musica sacra, 122nd year 2004, 5/2004, p. 911 .
  • El cambio de la Edición oficial del Canto Gregoriano de la Editorial Pustet / Ratisbona a la de Solesmes en la Época del Motu Proprio, in: Revista de Musicología, vol. XXVII, n ° 1, 6/2004, Madrid 2004, pp. 197-209 .
  • Karl Höller's work for the organ - solo and with other instruments, in: Composers in Bavaria, Vol. 50, Karl Höller , ed. v. Axel Flierl, Tutzing 2007, pp. 119-131 .
  • The organ, a career of more than 2000 years, in: The organ and the music on the Holy Mountain, ed. v. Hans Maier, Fritz David and Toni Aigner, Munich 2010, pp. 32–36 .
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's five organ sonatas - On the editions and the musical text, in: Musica sacra 134 (2014), pp. 324–327 .
  • Is there an organ fugue in E minor by Ludwig Thuille? In: Musik in Bayern 81, Munich 2017, pp. 258–264.

Editions

  • Joseph Haas, 10 chorale preludes op.3, Pro Organo PO1019, Leutkirch 1988
  • Franz Lachner, Complete Organ Sonatas, Pro Organo PO1020, Leutkirch 1990
  • Marco Enrico Bossi, Rapsodia, Forberg, Bonn 1993 (together with Arturo Sacchetti)
  • Theodor Grünberger, Complete Organ Masses, Doblinger DM 1275–1277, Vienna 1999/2000
  • Josef Rheinberger, Adagio e Andante per Organo, Carrara 4523, Bergamo 2001
  • Georg Friedrich Handel, Organ Concerto No. 13 “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale” HWV 295, Butz 2285, Bonn 2009
  • Unity and Law and Freedom, Romantic Organ Arrangements for the German National Anthem, Butz 2718, Bonn 2015

student

  • Jun Byung Park
  • Giuseppe Raccuglia
  • Jörg Josef Schwab
  • Bernadetta Sunavska
  • Matteo Venturini
  • Yeonjeong Jeong

CDs (selection)

  • Famous Organ Pieces / Famous Organ Pieces, Metropolitan CD 59024 , 1987.
  • The baroque organ of the Benediktbeuern basilica , Audite 95.441 , 1995.
  • Cathedral Music, Klemens Schnorr on the organs in the Freiburg Minster , Motette DVD 13236 , 2005.
  • El Órgano mayor de la Catedral de la Seo de El Salvador, Zaragoza, Motet 13221 , 2005.
  • Slokar Trio wiediscon records WD 9426 , 2006.
  • Mozart in Amorbach , Motet DVD 13406 , 2007.
  • The Thoma organ from St. Tertulin in Schlehdorf Spektral SRL4-09056 , 2010.
  • The new Michael’s organ in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Freiburg organum Ogm 101028 , 2010.
  • Léon Boēllmann, Intégrale de l'œuvre d'orgue | vol. 3, Festival Callinet, 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.badische-zeitung.de/klassik-2/marode-muensterorgeln-bewegen-organist-in-freiburg-zur-kuendigung--64084639.html
personal data
SURNAME Schnorr, Klemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Amorbach , Odenwald