Konrad Wagner (church musician)

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Konrad Wagner in the Catholic Court Church in Dresden (around 1992)

Konrad Wagner (born January 18, 1930 in Hainitz ; † September 4, 2021 in Dresden ) was a German church musician and from 1955 to 1997 as choirmaster of the Dresdner Kapellknaben and as cathedral choirmaster (from 1994 as cathedral music director) at the Catholic Court Church (now Cathedral of the Diocese of Dresden-Meißen ).

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The Dresdner Kapellknaben and the cathedral choir in the Katholische Hofkirche in Dresden will sing on January 19, 2020 in honor of Konrad Wagner on the occasion of his 90th birthday

After childhood in Sebnitz he was a chapel boy at the Dresden Court Church and passed his Abitur in Dresden. After studying at the Berlin-Charlottenburg Academy of Music , he was choir director of the Dresden Kapellknaben at the Catholic Court Church (Propsteikirche) in Dresden from 1955 to 1997, succeeding Joseph Wagner . During this time, he built up the boys 'choir, who are responsible for the musical organization of the services in the Dresden court church, into an efficient boys' choir and directed and shaped them artistically.

In 1971 he was appointed cathedral choirmaster , in 1975 church music director , and in 1994 cathedral music director of the cathedral of the Dresden-Meißen diocese . Matthias Liebich has been his successor as cathedral music director since 1997 . He was also a lecturer at the Dresden University of Church Music . Since 1961 he has undertaken several concert tours with the Kapellknaben through West Germany, Austria, Italy and France. A visit to the Vatican to see the Pope in 1982 was a special highlight, as was the trip to the USA in 1995 for a concert at the United Nations .

Konrad Wagner founded the cathedral choir with adults. Through his work, the Dresden Kapellknaben (with the participation of the cathedral choir, state orchestra and soloists) were able to perform great church music works by Dresden court musicians and composers ( Hasse , Zelenka and Weber ) in the liturgical setting in the cathedral on high church festivals . The tradition of Catholic church music in Dresden was thus continuously carried on and further developed.

Konrad Wagner also did a great job in founding the new St. Benno-Gymnasium in Dresden. He was chairman of the Catholic school organization St. Benno e. V.

On the occasion of the 90th birthday of Konrad Wagner, the mass in D minor by the Dresden composer Edmund Kretschmer was performed on January 19, 2020 in honor of the present jubilee in the Dresden Cathedral with the Dresden Kapellknaben and the Dresden Cathedral Choir. Konrad Wagner himself conducted this work for the last time on September 28, 2008.

Konrad Wagner died in September 2021 after a short serious illness at the age of 91 in Dresden.

factories

  • Music in the Katholische Hofkirche Dresden, Dresden, publisher: Pellmann, 1995
  • To celebrate Easter Vigil, Hildesheim, Exsultate-Verlag, 2004, score
  • German Proprium for the Feast of the Birth of the Lord, Leipzig, St. Benno Verlag, 1967, full score
  • German Proprium for the feast of the birth of the Lord (third mass) and the octave day of the birth of the Lord (New Year), Leipzig, St. Benno-Verlag, 1967, score

Awards

Discography (selection)

With the Dresdner Kapellknaben:

  • Hasse, Johann Adolf: Te deum, Gloria and Regina coeli
  • Zelenka, Jan Dismas: Missa Circumcisionis Domini Nostri Jesu Christi
  • Dresdner Kapellknaben sing at Christmas - choirs from the nativity scene of the Kapellknaben
  • Music at the Dresden Hofkirche (including Weber mass and Dresden Hofkirchen intrade)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Domkapellmeister retired Konrad Wagner deceased (accessed on September 6, 2021)
  2. ↑ Chronicle of the Wende (accessed on May 27, 2015)
  3. ↑ Program leaflet for the performance of the fair on January 19, 2020 in Dresden
  4. ↑ Papal Order for Dresden Choir Directors, DNN, No. 146, from June 26, 2014, p. 9
  5. ↑ Diocese of Dresden-Meißen - archive with picture (accessed on May 27, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician
BIRTH DATE January 18, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Hainitz
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Dresden