Kuno Stierlin
Kuno Stierlin (born August 30, 1886 in Ulm , † August 26, 1967 ) was music director , composer and pianist .
Life
Stierlin's father Johann Gottfried Adolf Stierlin (born October 14, 1859 in Adenau , † April 26, 1939 in Münster) was the bass player at the Kroll Opera in Berlin and at other stages in Germany. His wife Fides (née Koffka) was a court actress in Dessau. As a child, Kuno came to his great-aunt Karolin Stierlin in Münster; his parents followed him in 1897. Stierlin received his first piano lessons at the age of six and studied piano, organ and violin at his father's conservatory .
Stierlin was a student of Max Reger in Würzburg. As Kapellmeister worked in Münster , Elberfeld and Dortmund , among others , conducted the Oratorio Association in Hengelo , the Netherlands, from 1923 , and returned to Münster in 1939. In 1944 around 400 compositions were destroyed in his apartment. After the war, Stierlin came to Warendorf as a bomb victim , where he lived and worked for ten years. About 30 works were created here, e.g. B. the "Warendorfer Reiter Overture", a "Te Deum in Low German" and a "Hymn to Warendorf", which were released on May 25, 1954 under the direction of Franz Bernardt (1905-89) and with the assistance of the MGV "Lyra" was premiered. The hymn uses a poem by the East Prussian poet Agnes Miegel . The performance was the first and last "Music Festival of the City of Warendorf". Then Stierlin moved to Düsseldorf.
His wife Hildegard gave piano and music theory lessons and his daughter Fides devoted herself to ballet music as a pianist. Fides played on the municipal stages of Münster from 1942 to 1949. From 1949 to 1952, Stierlin headed the men's choir in Westkirchen and played the organ there. Under his direction, the male choir successfully took part in numerous singing competitions.
Stierlin had three daughters and one son: Fides (* February 14, 1919), Melanie (* December 19, 1920), Tosca (* March 24, 1922) and Gösta (* May 10, 1923).
Stierlin died on August 26, 1967 at the age of 80.
A street in Hengelo that was formerly named after him has now been renamed " Rachmaninowstraße ". There is still a “Stierlin Street” in Münster. However, it is named after Stierlin's father Johann Gottfried, who founded a music school in the southern district of Münster in 1897, which existed for 25 years.
A portrait of Stierlin has hung in the conference room of the Dutch town hall of Hengelo for four years since 1986. Then it was brought to Münster and given to the Münster city museum. From August 30, 1993 to December 28, 1993 the portrait was exhibited in the gallery of the Münster Café “Schucan” opposite the town hall in honor of Stierlin's birthday.
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Stierlin also appreciated the casual work . One of these has been preserved in the papers of the former Marienschule (today's Mariengymnasium): “Andante antiquo. Written for the string orchestra of the Marienschule zu Warendorf. Natascha dedicated! "
Stierlin did not want to be a "new speaker". He lived in the world of late Romanticism and was convinced that its compositional possibilities were far from exhausted. At Stierlin, archaic elements collide with fresh inventiveness. A fine, harmonic feeling and by no means flat melodic power form a happy connection. Stierlin often used a large orchestra , choir and soloists.
On November 4th, 2003 the concert organist H. Wiekamp performed an organ composition by Stierlin in the Lamberti Church in Münster . The Berliner Philharmoniker performed Stierlin's fourth symphony under Herbert von Karajan . A trio for horn, violin and piano was played in Ulm.
The Stierlin Society endeavors to save Stierlin's work from being forgotten.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stierlin, Kuno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German music director, composer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ulm |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 1967 |
| Place of death | Muenster |