Lutz Felbick

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Lutz Felbick, Aachen (2014)

Lutz Felbick (born October 22, 1954 in Hückeswagen ) is a German musician and musicologist .

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Artistic activities

Lutz Felbick began his musical career in 1971 in the Bergisches Land, initially with public appearances as a jazz pianist , choir director and organist . After his state examination at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf, he was cantor of the Trinity Church in Aachen from 1982 to 1992 . There he realized the artistically broad-based event concept Music in II with his own choir, orchestra and organ concerts, "open ears concerts" and guest concerts. His diverse activities received great attention in the regional and national press.

As a concert organist and member of the improvisation ensembles “Common Sense” and JATO, he gave numerous concerts at home and abroad and performed the entire organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Jehan Alain , among others . He made the first recording of a hitherto little known organ symphony by Germaine Labole . At stages of his artistic career, his solo concerts include the Notre Dame de Paris , Westminster Abbey London, the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and the St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin, in the National City Christian Church, and Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, on large organs in Kiev, Lund / Sweden, Jalta, Helsinki, on organs in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium. JATO concerts took place at the Wiener Festwochen and the Leverkusen Jazz Days . At the multimedia event "Dom im Licht" with synchronized live projections on the facade of Aachen Cathedral on November 3, 2017, Lutz Felbick appeared as a soloist with symphonic organ works in front of more than 4,000 spectators.

Among his numerous radio, television, record and CD recordings is the recording of Olivier Messiaen's Messe de la Pentecôte (WDR, 1989), which was broadcast nationwide on ARD in 2007. Felbick's USA concert tour with saxophonist Heribert Leuchter to Washington and Tampa attracted particular attention . Several CDs were recorded from Felbick's JATO project to complement Felbick's earlier recordings. Together with his former teacher Almut Rößler , he was the artistic director of the Aachen Messiaen Days in 2001 and the initiator and coordinator of the euregional organizing group “In-Front” (B, D, NL) with a focus on improvisation, jazz and new music. In the same year he obtained the Advanced Deep Listening certificate ( Pauline Oliveros ) in the USA .

Scientific and educational activities

From 1987 Lutz Felbick supplemented his artistic activity with musicological publications at Bärenreiter-Verlag ( MGG , Handbuch Orgelmusik etc.). His 1991 bibliography of 178 Russian and Soviet organ music composers was edited by the musicologist Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht and for the first time opened up a previously unexplored music literature. The same applies to his ear training / hearing education bibliography, which comprises more than 2500 titles .

In 1994, Felbick became a lecturer for music theory and ear training at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf. In addition, he worked for the Society for Contemporary Music Aachen (GZM) and was heavily involved in the development of the club's own music school, music loft, and the city's Klangbrücke cultural center with a studio stage for new music / improvisation / jazz, rehearsal and classrooms for the free music school music loft and a corresponding infrastructure.

He gave lectures on the topics of new music , music theory , listening training and improvisation both in the “Klangbrücke” and at specialist congresses . Since 2006 Felbick has been a guest lecturer at numerous music academies in Germany and abroad, including the University of Music and Theater in Munich and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis . From 2003 he developed the concept of the private singing school Tonart in Aachen . Here he works as a choir director of two choirs and a teacher of ear and voice training. His musicological dissertation on Lorenz Christoph Mizler , completed in 2011, was published by Georg-Olms-Verlag (2012) and received numerous reviews at home and abroad. Felbick's most extensive work was presented in detail on July 26, 2011 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and on September 23, 2013 in a broadcast Tonart of the WDR3 . This radio station also presented Felbick's research on the conceptual history of the “ cultural orchestra ” on December 3, 2013 . Felbick made three contributions to the three-volume lexicon of writings on music , which will appear in 2017 . In 2018, Felbick first worked as an editor and, together with other authors, presented a comprehensive book on the history of music in Aachen, in which not only the most important information has been listed since the Carolingian era, but also extensive bibliographies for the entire period up to the present.

Publications

Sound carrier

  • WA Mozart: Vesperae Solennes De Dominica , Missa Brevis in D Major, Tantum ergo sacramentum. Marianna Busching, Michael Crabill, St. Thomas More Cathedral Choir, Carolyn Dill Smith, Lutz Felbick (organ), Gene Tucker, Peter Fay, Haig Mardirosian & St. Thomas More Cathedral Orchestra. 1990 (CD CRC 2074). on-line
  • Lutz Felbick at the organ of the House of Culture in Kiev. (1990) Works by Bach, Mendelsohn, Reger and others (LP Мелодия C 1030351009).
  • Lutz Felbick at the Klais organ of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche Aachen. (1990) Germaine Labole: Symphonie en Si-Mineur , Jehan Alain: Trois Dances . (LP Mitra 16221).
  • JATO: From Hisdoric to Gesus. June 1992. Trinity Church Aachen. Lutz Felbick (organ), Jörg Drewing (trombone, didgeridoo), Regina Pastuszyk (clarinet, flute, taragot), Michael Küttner (drum, percussion). (CD Drops 018).
  • JATO: Windladen (2011) with Lutz Felbick (organ), Heribert Leuchter (saxophone). (CD LUXMM13).
  • JATO: Concert recording in St. Josef Cologne-Porz on September 29, 2013. Lutz Felbick (organ), Heribert Leuchter (saxophone). (CD Lupophon LUC 1002)
  • New Year's Concert Notre Dame Paris 1989, incl. 3 bonus tracks, Lutz Felbick, organ (LC 01052 © NRGY).

Fonts (selection)

  • History of Protestant church music in Aachen from 1898 to 1943. In: Musik und Kirche , 5/1987, p. 241ff. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel.
  • The Soviet-American Organ-Festival in Aachen, West-Germany. In: The American Organist 3/1989.
  • Soviet organ music. A bibliography of 178 composers born on the territory of the former Soviet Union. In: Publications of the Walcker Foundation - Musikwissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft , Vol. 15, ed. by H.-H. Eggebrecht. Kleinblittersdorf 1991, pp. 95-149.
  • Data on Aachen music history, chronology and bibliography. Publication of the public library of the city of Aachen, Aachen 1993.
  • Aachen. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, subject part, volume 1 (Aachen - Bogen). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1994, ISBN 3-7618-1102-0  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Organ music in the states of the CIS / Baltic States. In: Rudolf Faber u. Philip Hartmann (Ed.): Handbook of organ music. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2002, pp. 239–244, 508–516.
  • The best place for knowledge is on the border - thoughts on contemporary music in Aachen. In: Rheinisches Musikfest 2002. (Ed. Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln).
  • Cognitive Music Psychology - New Perspectives for the Tristan Analysis. In: Zeitschrift Musiktheorie , 18 (2003), pp. 373–374.
  • About the clarity of the water at the source - A short excursion to the improvisational roots of our musical culture. In: Practice & Music 2/2005, pp. 54ff online
  • On the influence of improvisation on the central European musical life of the 19th century. In: Musiktheorie 20.2 (2005), pp. 166–182.
  • Ear training and music psychology. In: Markus Jans, Angelika Moths, John Mackeown, Balz Trümpy (eds.): Music theory at its limits: New and old music. Bern 2009, pp. 441–455.
  • Bach's philosopher. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 26, 2011.
  • Lorenz Christoph Mizler de Kolof - student of Bach and Pythagorean "Apostle of Wolffian Philosophy". Olms, Hildesheim 2012, (= series of publications by the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig).
  • The polymath Lorenz Christoph Mitzler (1711–1778). In: Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki 2012 (57.3–4) pp. 39–70.
  • JS Bach and Lorenz Mizler. In: Bachnotes (The Newsletter of the American Bach Society), Spring 2013, No. 18, p. 6f.
  • The methodical-didactic concept of the Argentine textbook "Analisis Auditivo de la Musica" compared to European auditory analysis works. In: Ralf Kubicek (Ed.): Music theory and mediation. (= Paraphrases - Weimar Contributions to Music Theory , series of publications by the Liszt School of Music Weimar, Vol. 2) Olms, Hildesheim 2014, pp. 201–217.
  • Review of the ear training software EarMaster 6,, Egaa 2012. In: Journal of the Society for Music Theory (ZGMTH), 11/2 (2014)
  • The "high cultural assets of German music" and the "degenerate" - about the problem of the concept of the cultural orchestra. In: Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement , 2/2015, pp. 85–115.
  • Leonhard Euler: Tentamen novae theoriae musicae, St. Petersburg 1739. In: Lexikon Schriften über Musik , Vol. 1 Music theory from antiquity to the present, ed. by Hartmut Grimm / Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann / Ullrich Scheideler / Felix Wörner (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics), Kassel 2017, pp. 131-133.
  • Keys of a city - a journey through time through the history of music in Aachen , ed. by Lutz Felbick, 292 pages, 304 illustrations, bibliography with 502 titles (= series Crous collection; 11), Aachen 2018. ISBN 978-3-9817499-4-6 . [Authors: A. Beaujean (+), L. Felbick, N. Jers, H. Leuchter and T. Mengler].
  • Review: Markus Schwenkreis (ed.), Compendium Improvisation - Fantasizing from historical sources from the 17th and 18th centuries . In: Journal of the Society for Music Theory 16/1 (2019), pp. 125–135. Online version
  • The compositor extemporaneus Beethoven as "grandchildren" of JS Bach. In: The volatile work. Pianistic improvisation of Beethoven's time, ed. by Michael Lehner, Nathalie Meidhof and Leonardo Miucci, Schliengen 2019 (= music research at the Bern University of the Arts 12), pp. 34–56. online for more information
  • "... whoever understands astronomy and music at the same time will not laugh at it ..." - On the reception of the Pythagorean-Platonic philosophy in the context of Johann Sebastian Bach. In: Symbolon - Yearbook of the Society for Scientific Symbol Research eV, New Series Volume 21 e. V. Heavenly journeys and journeys into hell. Sound and cosmos. Time and Timelessness , ed. by Werner Heinz, Verlag Peter Lang, Berlin 2020, pp. 271–287.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Relocation of the Klais organ from Aachen to Cologne ; Klais organ of the Trinity Church
  2. ↑ Documentation in the Aachen City Library
  3. ^ Regional and national media reports on Lutz Felbick on the Lutz Felbick website.
  4. ^ Regional and national concert activities by Lutz Felbick on the Lutz Felbick website.
  5. ^ National Shrine ; NCCC (Centers for Organ Music Maintenance in Washington)
  6. ↑ The stage. Verlag Austria International, Vienna (1992), p. 133.
  7. ↑ Extensive preliminary and follow-up reports in the regional and national press as well as in radio and television media are documented, for example, in the Aachener Zeitung of October 30, 2017, November 3, 2017 and November 4, 2017.
  8. ↑ Washington Post ; PNC Bank Concert Series ; Press report on the USA concert tour in the Aachener Zeitung .
  9. ↑ Excerpt from the concert on February 2, 2018
  10. ^ Lutz Felbick: Soviet organ music. A bibliography of 178 composers born on the territory of the former Soviet Union. In: Publications of the Walcker Foundation - Musikwissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft , Vol. 15, ed. by H.-H. Eggebrecht. Kleinblittersdorf 1991, pp. 95-149.
  11. ↑ Bibliography ear training / hearing training on the website of Lutz Felbick; the address given by Ulrich Kaiser in footnote 19 : Aural training in Germany is no longer up-to-date, cf. www.felbick.de
  12. ^ Winfried Pape and Hans-Walter Staudte: The Society for Contemporary Music Aachen. In: Robert von Zahn (Ed.) New Music in North Rhine-Westphalia - The nine societies for new music between Aachen and Lippe. Kassel 2014, pp. 42–52, here p. 44; Music loft Festschrift 1994 , GZM website in the Aachener Klangbrücke
  13. ^ Lectures by Lutz Felbick
  14. ↑ Christine Moraal, Music in Aachen - A Music History of the Imperial City , Aachen 2007, p. 106.
  15. ↑ In the magazine Forum Musikbibliothek (vol. 34, issue 1 / March 2013, p. 79) Felbicks book was described by the reviewer Manuel Bärwald as a "new standard work". The "careful examination of the universal creation of a scholar who so far always stood in the shadow" was "worth reading, rich in material and competent work" a (review by Birger Petersen: The Music Research 68.1 / 2015, pp 79-80.) More media reports Mizler dissertation on Lutz Felbick's website.
  16. ↑ 75 years of the cultural orchestra ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ The authors of this standard work were selected for the respective area on the basis of their expertise corresponding to international standards.
  18. ↑ Review in: The American Organist 25 [1991], p. 46
  19. ↑ Label Luxaries
  20. ↑ Online
  21. ↑ online version.
  22. ↑ Online version.
  23. ↑ online
  24. ↑ further information
personal data
SURNAME Felbick, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hückeswagen